19th May 2010 - Clutha Vaults

Sorry to say I missed this evenings Open Mic - hope it went well - will report back next week!

12th May Open Mic - Clutha Vaults

This was a "Farewell to Sandy" evening, as well as being an Open Mic night.

Sandy and a few of his friends.

Kevin started the evening off with a Guy Clarke song 'Broken Hearted People' followed by 'Me and You'.

Bob Leslie had once again brought his electric guitar from the recording studio, and played along with many of the performers throughout the evening.

First up was Joe MacAtamany who gave us 'Jock Stewart' and then 'Ride On'.

Kevin then sang 'I can do better than that' and then got

Martin up onto the stage for a couple of numbers.

Gordon the took the mic to thank everyone who had come for Sandy's evening - and then Sandy gave a small thank you speech, saying he had felt it was a time to change some of the things in his life, but that he would still turn up occasionally, and keep in touch!

He then gave us a song, accompanied by Stuart on acoustic and Bob on electric, 'Start over again' - very appropriate!

Stuart Workman then gave us a Neil Young classic 'Harvest Moon'.
Kevin then did a short burst of a Bob Dylan song - 'It ain't me Babe' before getting the two guys

who called themselves Minor Detail up to sing - they did their own songs 'St. Andrew' and then 'Humdrum days'.

Andy Logan then got up to perform 'The Games people play' and then 'Fulsom Prison Blues'.

Sandy then came up to sing a happy song for some of the girls and started singing a John Denver classic 'Country Roads' but had trouble about half way through as he looked over to the audience ........to see a sea of his own faces staring back at him!!! He did manage to finish the song, and then made the comment - he never knew he was so handsome!!!

Kevin then got Duncan Adams up to sing 'Lay down Sally' and then 'Where am I gonna live?'

Jerry MacAtamany then sang a jaunty version of the Eagles 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' and then a Bob Dylan song 'Positively 4th street'

Gary [Light ?] then sang 'The Gambler' and then tried to give us a Pink Floyd song.

Next up was a chap who called himself Fly Glider sang a couple of songs whose titles I didn't catch.

Enjoying the music!

Jer McDade then gave us a couple of his own story songs, and managed to break a string towards the end of the second song, so whilst Stuart changed the string,

Kevin took the electric guitar and sang 'Hoochy Coochy Man'.

Stuart Workman then performed 'King of the Swingers' specially for Sandy, and then 'Manhatten'.

Bob Leslie then took the acoustic guitar and performed 'Heatwave' , and then

Elspeth Durkin joined him on stage and they sang the Little Feat number 'Dixie Chicken'.

Elspeth stayed on stage to sing backing vocals with Sandy [and Bob] on 'Glory glory' which finished off the main part of the evening, just as the bar closed.

There was a very short jam session before the staff moved everyone out.

5th May 2010 Clutha Vaults - Kevin's Open Mic

Kevin Young has taken over the task of running the Wednesday night Open Mic at the Clutha Vaults.

We wish him lots of luck and lots of musicians in the future!!

Stuart Workman and Bob Leslie started the evening off with Stuart on acoustic guitar singing Reflections, accompanied by Bob on electric guitar. They then performed Leonard Cohen's 'Manhatten'.

Joe MacAtamany was next up performing 'Ride On' and then 'Haul Away', before

Connor got on stage and gave us 'Teenage Kicks', 'The first time' and 'Let me hold on'.

Bob Leslie was next on the acoustic guitar singing his own songs 'The Devil ain't a friend of mine', 'Beans and Beer' and then 'It'll last another day' where he was accompanied by Kevin on electric guitar.

Kevin then did a Frank Ifield song 'Lovesick Blues' followed by a beautiful ballad 'Broken-hearted People'.

Stuart then got back up to sing 'Jersey Girl' [with Bob on the electric guitar]

and was then joined by Jenny who sang 'Smile'

followed by 'Eirie Canal' along with Stuart and Bob.

Kevin [& Bob] then gave us a good version of 'Hoochy Coochy Woman'.

Kevin then got Elspeth Durkin up to sing 'Autumn Leaves' 'After the Goldrush' and then 'Will you still love me tomorrow?', which had a few of the audience joining in on the chorus.

Joe MacAtamany the got up to the stage and sang 'Bonnie Heiland Lassie' and then 'Jock Stewart', and finally 'Will ye come to the dancin' wi' me?'

Kevin finished off the evening with 'Love me today', 'Five Years' and then 'Fulsom Prison/Mojo Working' combo with Bob on his electric guitar. A nice evening all round. Kevin mentioned at the end of the session that next weeks session would be a specially evening for Sandy Watson, to say thank you and good luck to him!

Open Mic Shock!!

I got a shock last night to find that Sandy Watson has given up the Clutha Vaults Wednesday night Open Mic sessions.

I did know that the Vagabonds had dis-banded on the 9th April, but I had thought Sandy would continue with the Open Mic, as it was 'his' session.

I had been late arriving, without Bob Leslie as he is still recovering from a Gall Bladder infection which had him in hospital over the 11th/12th April, and someone called Martin was caretaking last night, but I have never seen him at the regular nights before, and he didn't know some of the more regular people.

He was a good singer, but I had arrived late, and the first person I saw up was a decidedly drunken Dennis - who stumbled through several first verses of songs without getting to second verses, and there was now sign of Martin. Suzie got up with Dennis to sing Peaceful Easy Feeling, and did well to continue singing when Dennis dropped his pick and stopped playing. When she had finished, Dennis stood up and fell over, and was grabbed at the last minute by Suzie, which stopped him from crashing to the floor, with the guitar in his hand!!

Martin arrived back at this point and sang an extremely sad Irish song, during which Andy 'the Candy' Logan arrived with Alec, so Martin got Andy up immediately for a couple of songs [Games people play and Good-hearted Woman] and then Alec joined him on his clarinet - (unfortunately the clarinet and guitar were in slightly different keys which made it slightly grating on the ears). Then Andy finished off with a request for 'St. James Infirmary'.

I had forgotten to pick up my camera on my way out the door this evening, so there are no photos, and I have to admit I left early, for the first time in years, not feeling as if I had been out for the evening at all.

Apology - 14th April 2010

Didn't make it in to the Clutha this evening.
Got news that Bob Leslie had been in hospital over the weekend after a severe problem with his Gall Bladder which could have been fatal - we wish Bob all the best and a very speedy recovery, and hope to see him back at the Clutha on Wednesday the 21st April!

Clutha Open Mic - 7th April 2010

Sandy was away this week and had asked Big Bob Leslie to take the Open Mic session for him.
Bob started the evening off along with Bernadette, singing 'My old friend the Blues' then Bernadette sang 'I am an Orphan Girl', followed by
Bob with 'My Girl' and then
Bernadette again with 'Tougher than the rest' and then Bob with 'Tears of a Clown. First guest to the stage was
Eddie with a couple of his own songs....The first was called 'West Highland Way' but although he was singing no-one could make out any words.... and his song went on for about fifteen minutes. Bob had told him he had two songs, so when he had finished the first, he started again - and to be honest the second song sounded exactly like the first, and was just as long..............!
Stevie Osbourne was back at the Clutha and Bob got hime up to sing 'East End Blues' which was well received.
Andy Lindsay then took the stage and gave us a couple of ausing little ditties - the first a Peter Nardini song 'A dog called Billy, a cat called Pat', and then 'Sam the skull' - aka the Glasgow Cat!! - which had audience participation during the choruses.
Joe MacAtamany then got up and sang 'Fancy Free' and then 'Eldorado'.
Elspeth Durkin was next and sang accapello for the first song - 'Our wedding day' and followed that with a duet with Bob of 'Love Hurts'.
Chris McLean then got on stage and sang 'The town of Kiandra'.
Next up was Brian McDade singing 'Burk' and then 'The night you lit up the Blues'.
Jerry MacAtamany then followed with an Eagles song 'Peaceful, Easy feeling' and then 'What made Milwaukee famous'.
Stevie O got back up for a second time and sang 'Good to be alive' and then 'Don't take any more away from me'.
George then got on stage and performed 'LA woman' and then the U2 song 'Heroes' [most of it in German!!].
Bob then asked Elspeth back up to duet with him on 'Dixie Chicken' and then with Bernadette too on 'Take another piece of my heart'.
Brian got back up and sang 'Songs from the port' and was followed by
Stevie O again with an Elvis song 'Hound-dog'.
Joe MacAtamany then sang 'Coorie Doon' before Bob and Bernie finished the evening with 'Sloop John B' with lots of audience participation.
A good evening enjoyed by all.