10th March 2008, Bob’s Open Mic At the Clutha Vaults

I was a little late getting in this evening and the sessions had already been going for a short while. The bad weather seems to have put a few people off from coming out!

When I arrived Stewart was just finishing on stage.

Next up was Brian McDade, an excellent singer songwriter, who has been living in Nashville for a while I believe. His songs included ‘You don’t know my name’,

‘People in grass houses’ ,

and ‘Strangeways’.

Bob then got up and sang a couple of his songs ; ‘It wasn’t down in Texas’ -written as a sort of backlash to all the love songs that mentioned all the American places where people ‘found love’!

his second song was a result of finding his cat snoozing on top of his laundry basket - ‘It’ll last another day’.
Next up was Elspeth Durkin who gave her renditions of ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘Jolene’,

and ‘After the Goldrush’. Bob then continued with ‘Dirty Business’ [about coal mining] and then got Elspeth back up on stage to join him

in a bluesy version of ‘Dixie Chicken’.

Stewart then got back on stage and sang ‘Mattie Groves’

and then a Brian McNeil song ‘No God’.

Brian McDade then got back up and sang his own song about spending St Patrick’s Day playing in a club in America - where all the drinks were coloured GREEN [with food dye]!!- called ‘I seen it in Los Angelo’

followed by another ballad ‘Songs from the Port’ and then finally ‘Blade edge of Bohemia’
Bob then sang another of his songs ‘I love you more than Ice-cream’ before getting Joe MacAtamany up for three songs ‘ Broom of the Cowdenknowes’, ‘I’ll lay ye doon love’ and ‘Bonnie Glenshee’.

Bob then sang a request of ‘Me and Bobby McGee’

before finishing off the evening ,with some backing from Elspeth and Brian, with ‘You’re as drunk as me’, ‘You keep me hanging on’ and finally ‘Goodnight Irene’.