Wednesday 13th February 2008

Sandy was having a slight problem with his guitar lead this evening so Bob Leslie started the evening off on his guitar with a couple of his own compositions ‘Cordelia Jane’ and ‘Just another stormy Monday’.

He was followed by Andy Logan singing in his own inimitable style ‘St James Infirmary Blues’ and then ‘Two timing Man’.

Sandy had his guitar fixed by then and sang ‘The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty’.

Next up was Derek Hart who sang a couple of tunes including ‘Sweet Yesterday’.
Elspeth Durkin was next singing ‘Jolene’ and then Bob’s favourite ‘Autumn Leaves’
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Sandy got back up then and sang ‘If I needed you’ and he was followed on stage by Gavin Watt singing ‘As long as I can see the light’ and ‘My Baby wrote me a letter’ - I suppose if that had been written nowadays it would be My baby sent me a text! Doesn’t have the same meaning somehow.

Andy Logan got back up on stage then and performed ‘Time slips away’ followed by ‘Games people play’.


Sandy got Bob up next and he asked Elspeth to do some backing vocals on ‘Dixie Chicken ‘ and then ‘Gloria’, both of which were well received by the audience.


Gavin was back up then singing ‘Here comes your man’ and then ‘You don’t dance the techno’.

Sandy then sang the popular Beatles song ‘Strawberry Fields’.
Joe MacAtamany [the ‘Grandfather of the Open Mics] came up next and sang ‘The Happy People’ followed by the ballad ‘Jock Stewart’.

Duncan Adams was the penultimate performer, having arrived late, and he did ‘Put another log on the fire’ and then the ever popular ‘Where am I gonna live..?’.
Final performer of the evening [also a latecomer] was Amy Bell who gave a couple of lovely songs including ‘Me and Bobby McGee’.

Sandy finished the Open mic session on time, and a short jam session continued at the tables, with everybody gathering around and joining in with the singing.
Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!