9th April 2008

Sandy started the evening with a Spanish song , in honour of some Spanish visitors.

Bob Leslie then sang his songs ‘Smell the roses’ and ‘Cordelia Jane’

Peter was next with ‘We must share’ and then ‘I know that face well’

Tommy then took the stage and did ‘Ghost riders in the sky’ followed by ‘Hazard Hollow’

Mike Play, a new face at the Open mics then performed two of his own songs ‘Elementary’ and then ‘Stay up’ both excellent songs and really well performed.

Gavin Watt was next with ‘Lonesome Me’ and then ‘For what it’s worth’.

Stevie then took to the stage with ‘Wild Horses’ followed by ‘Hey Jude’

Elspeth Durkin was next up , with Bob Leslie on guitar, singing ‘Autumn Leaves’

and then a duet with Bob - of the Little Feat song ‘Dixie Chicken’. Scott then got up and played some slide guitar on his own Dobro [no photo unfortunately] and he was followed by Rob with ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ and then ‘Honkytonk Blues’

Joe MacAtamany was next on stage with ‘Haul Away’ and then Ride On’

and he was followed by Jer McDade with one of his compositions ‘Something Good’.

Neil was next - a left-handed guitar player - and he did an excellent version of Johnny Cash’s song ‘I hurt myself today’.

Duncan Adams then got up to sing ‘Where am I goin’ to live?’ and ‘I don’t care if you love me anymore’.

Willie Mathews was last and finished with ‘If I had a Hammer'.

There was a very short Jam session to follow before the staff started moving everybody slowly out of the pub!!

Sandy's Open Mic, 2nd April 2008

Sandy started the evening with his usual couple of songs including 'Drunken nights in the city'.

Kirsty was first up - sporting her new look which really suits her!

Her songs included 'Dirty Pennies'.

Andy Lindsay was next with a couple of old classics 'I put a spell on you' and then 'Istanbul/Constantinople'.

New face Peter then got up and sang 'Rock Island Line', 'Fulsom Prison Blues' and then Route 55 [a song which Joseph Durkin used to do a slide blues version of].

Dave was then up with 'All he wanted'.

Stuart Workman and Johnny T Miller (on Bass) then did a Leanoard Cohen number 'First we take Manhatten' and then the Steve Earle classic 'Copperhead Road'.

Joe MacAtamany then took the stage and sang 'Lily of the West' and then 'Coorie Doon'.

Next on stage was Gavin Watt with 'Four strong winds' and then the ever popular 'You don't dance the techno anymore'.

Bob Leslie then took to the stage with a couple of his own compositions 'Smell the roses' and 'It'll last another day'.

He stayed on stage to accompany Elspeth Durkin who sang the Dolly Parton classic 'Jolene'

and then 'Dixie Chicken' along with Johnny T as well.

Vivienne then got up with Johnny to sing the Sandy Denny song 'Who knows where the time goes'.

Willie Mathews then took the stage with Johnny T and Andy Lindsay [on hand drum] and they performed 'Rollin and tumblin' followed by 'Black Magic woman'.

Jimmy then got to the stage with Johnny T and did 'Out of my Head'.

Johnny stayed on to provide the bass line and Sandy then got Andy Logan up to sing 'Good Hearted woman,

and following him, Duncan Adams with 'Where am I gonna Live?'.

Final act of the evening was the group Foobar, who had come along a few weeks ago. They gave a great performeance of their songs 'Old fashioned way', 'There's more to life than me' and a newly written 'Peter Sellers', all of which were enthusiastically received.

As there had been so many great perfomers in this evening, the performances finished dead on midnight [although Foobar had anounced both last orders and that the bar was closing between their songs]. A great evening with good performances and a great atmosphere.