18th July 2007 Clutha Vaults Open Mic Sessions

This evening started off with Sandy singing ‘Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather’ an old Dylan ballad

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then he got the first performers of the evening up - Ian and Elaine, who gave an excellent performance of a Blues ballad - ‘Guilty’ followed by one of their own songs ‘Easy’. Elaine has a fabulous voice well suited to singing blues ballads.

Sandy then got Elspeth Durkin up - “I have to follow that?” . Her normal accompaniment usually comes from Bob Leslie however he is off on holiday in Spain at the present.....so Elspeth did her song accapella [or - unaccompanied].

She sang the ballad ‘The last Leviathan’ about the death of the last whales.
Next up was John who gave us ‘What’s a poor boy got to do?’

followed by Annie Fagan with Sandy on guitar singing ‘Ramona’.

Next up to the stage was Ronnie Simpson [champion weightlifter]

who sang the ballad ‘Green fields of France’ with Sandy on guitar.

Sandy followed that himself with ‘Redemption Song’.

Jer McDade was next on stage with his composition ‘Sing Song’.

Chris was next but I didn’t catch the title of his piece.

Sandy then got Ian and Elaine back up for another blues song which was ‘Since I fell for you’,

quickly followed by Joe MacAtamy with ‘Fancy Free’.

Jer McDade did another of his compositions ‘The Unsinkable Boat’

followed by Sandy once again with ‘If I were a Carpenter’.

Michael Fagin then gave us a couple of songs ‘Duncan’ and Neil Young’s ‘Heart of Gold’.

Then Joe MacAtamy was back with his version of ‘The Loch Tay Boat song’.

Next up was Barney and girlfriend Lesley O’Brian with a couple of country songs

‘You win again’ and ‘The Tennessee Border’.

Then Sandy once again got

Ian and Elaine up again who gave us ‘If you want a do-right, all-days woman…’.

Jer McDade was back up again with a cover of the Squeeze song ‘Annie’ followed by Joe MacAtamy again ,

with ‘Courie doon’.

Sandy got Elspeth back up for another accapella song, this time her version of the haunting Irish ballad ‘ I once had a True Love’ .

Ian Adie was next up then , and although Sandy was willing to accompany him, Ian got Michael Fagin up and they did another Neil Young song ‘Southern Man’.

Then Michael carried on with a Beach Boys cover asking the audience to join in with him on ‘God only knows’.

Sandy then got Andy ‘the candy Logan [who had not long arrived in the place] to come up on stage and give us ‘The Games people play’ followed by ‘Good-hearted Woman’.

Sandy then sang another haunting melody ‘I can’t remember if we said goodbye’

Which was very appropriate as the last performer on stage was Jerry McHugh,

who is leaving next week to go and live, with his family, in Spain. Jerry played ‘Russian Lullaby’ followed by ‘The Road to Dundee’ by special request of the audience, with Sandy joining in.
There will be a farewell ‘party’ for Jerry on Sunday the 29th at Scotch Corner for those friends who would like to wish him all the best.

11th July 2007

Sandy opened this evenings proceedings with a Rolling Stones number "No Expectations"

before getting Laura up, who then gave us a Sheryl Crow number "Home".
Stuart Nugent gave us "Tinseltown in the rain"

and he was followed by John Alexander who

demonstrated some phenominal finger picking

on the song "When the wind blows"

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Joe Kidd was next up with a song

which he dedicated to his young son "Nothin' wrong".

Bob Leslie and Johnnie T Miller then got up and performed one of Bob's tunes "The Devil ain't a friend of mine".

Elspeth Durkin then joined them for a Neil Young song "After the Goldrush"
Jt stayed up with Gavin Watt, who gave us two tunes

- "Been a long time" and then "You don't dance the techno anymore".

Stuart Workman and Jenny [both frae from Edinburgh]joined JT and did an excellent performance of "Pharoh's Army got grounded".

Gerry McHugh then gave an excellent performance of "The Ghost in you" followed by the Irving Berlin classic "Russian Lullaby".

Ger McDade was next up with his popular song "Bob Treetop".

Kevin Young was next with a beutiful haunting ballad about loss and betrayal which he wrote called "Might as well be Down and Out"

Andy McGarvie then got up on stage and did "Molli's Chambers" and he was followed

by Geroge Campbell singing "Down by the River"

Stevie Osbourne then got up with Bob Leslie to sing his own song "Good to be alive" followed by Stevie McCafferty with "The drugs don't work". Joe Macatamny was next with his unique version of "the Tay Boat Song". Ian Adie then got on stage and performed "Stand by me".
While the next musicians were 'preparing' JT entertained us all by starting the Bass riff from the Pink Floyd tune "Money" and he got a round of applause at the end too, when Joe Kidd and Ger McHugh were finally ready to play Joes song "Good Day". Jt and Stuart Workman then performed a song specially for Ian Adie "King of the Clutha"[ in the style of the Disney Jungle Book song King of the Jungle ]. Andy Logan & Jt then accompanied [?] Izzy who sang "a Dixie Melody" before handing over to Stuart Nugent [from Figure 8] who performed a Bruce Springstein song "Dancin in the dark" which was well received.Final performance of the evening went to Willie Jukebox Mathews who gave us "Mac the knife" followed by "Black Magic Woman" before saying farewell to all the singers and performers and audience.
[More Photos to follow]

4th July 2007

The new Beer Garden behind the Clutha Vaults and the relaunched Scotch Corner

But back to the Open Mic stage.......


Sandy started this evening with a classic

- 'If I were a carpenter'

First up was newcomer Paul

who sang 'I ain't got time'

Then a face we haven't seen for a while,

Brian got up and gave us 'Fulsom Prison'

Andy the candy Logan then gave us

'the crossroads'

Bob Leslie then gave us one of his own

ballads 'First man on the moon' from the

album 'Tales from the Mine'

Elspeth Durkin then got up to sing

' Autumn Leaves' with Bob.

Joe Kidd then sang his newest song

'If you were(my girl)' with some

accompanyment from Bob.

Laura, another face from the past,

got up and gave us 'My name is Luca'

She was followed by big Stuart Workman

from Edinburgh, who gave us 'Misunderstood'

Andy McGarvie was next with his song

'Take a walk down Stockwell Street'

Bob was then back up with Jimmy on Bass to

give us 'Born to be wild'

then Stevie [ & Jimmy] sang 'Angel from Harlem'

and 'Mother,Mother'

Kirsty was back in Glasgow from the wilds of Lesmahagow

to give us 'Talahatchie Bridge' and 'Fancy'.

Paul was back up next with 'Strange kind of Woman'

Then George Campbell gave us 'Down to the River' followed by 'Don't think twice' Chris was next with'Stay tonight' to

which everyone joined in the chorus

then Joe Kidd [& Bob] did 'Good Day'

followed by Ger McDade who

then gave us his hippie song 'The 60's never existed'

Andy McGarvie was back up next with a Travis song 'Closer' Stuart Workman got back up with 'Cocaine' [the song not the substance!

Then Joe MacAtamy gave us 'Fancy Free John Hill then got up and did a very slow version of 'Moon River' followed by the one and only

Andy the candy Logan with 'The games people play' with assistance on the chorus by the audience. Stevie, Bob and Sandy then did the blues song 'Headlights at my window'

Davie Martin then got up to sing 'Handbags and Gladrags' [with Bob] and kept telling Bob off for going to fast!!! Finally. Sandy, Gerry McHugh and Ian Adie finished the evening with the Eagles song

Take it Easy'. Once again there had been so many good singers that there was very little time left of the evening but a good night was had by all.

Good Night everyone!