10th March 2010 - Clutha Vaults

This evening started quietly with a small audience in the bar. Sandy started with a couple of gentle ballads "Deportees" a Woody Guthrie song and then "Oh No" by Billy Connelly. Bob joined in with some lovely guitar harmonies.
John Alexander was in the bar and got up to perform "The train that carried Jimmy Rogers home" followed by "Further on up the road".
Bob Leslie then performed a new song he had written at the weekend whilst suffereing from food poisioning - although the song bore no relation to that fact whatsoever!! It was called"Can't wait another day". He followed that with an older song of his which he had not sung for a while "Mara".
Andy Lindsay then went on stage and sang a Jake Thackery song "On again,on again,on again" and then a Harry Hagan song "Sam the skull" - which is about a Glasgow cat, and includes then lines '.. the kind that can strangle a rat and even the occasional Dug!' Many of the audience were joining in with the chorus for this one!
Sandy then got back up and sang another Billy Connelly song "Seargeant, Where's mine?".
Martin from Manchester then got on stage, and after apologising for being English [not his fault!] said he had learnt a Glasgow song and he then sang a Paolo Nutini song "Tricks of the Trade" - and was a little non-plussed when we told him Paolo was from Paisley!!
Elspeth then got on stage and Bob played "Autumn Leaves" and then "After the goldrush" for her.
Blair McGinley then went onstage and sang his own songs "Ain't got the love" and "Coming home again".
Andy Logan then got onstage looking like a lumberjack, and performed "Two for a penny" into "Good-hearted Woman" with a little guitar harmony from Bob.
Sandy once again performed "Livin alright" in order to introduce Robbie from Sunderland who then sang a Tom Petty song"You're so bad" and then "Crazy".
George then got up and sang a couple of David Bowie songs "Star" and then "I'm only dreaming". Sandy then got Dennis to play "Another Saturday night" which he joined in with harmonies for - along with most of the audience. Andy Lindsay then got back up with a Bob Dylan song "Love minus zero" and Andy Logan with a request for "Games people play".
Final performer of the evening was Duncan Adams with "Little Runaway", "Where am I gonna live?" and "Let me be there".
There then followed a rather riotous jam session with lots of harmonising, guitars, mandolin [Blair], hand drum and tambourine!! It only finished when they started putting the lights out and 'turned us out on the street'. An extremely enjoyable evening!

3rd March 2010 - Clutha Vaults

Sandy started the evening off with a song which he said was about agraphobia called "Trees and Flowers" by Strawberry Switchblade originally. He then sang "Somewhere in China" a song from an 80's band called 'The Shop Assistants'!
Robert was the first guest to the stage and he sang "killin the blues" followed by "Love Hurts" and then "Love in mind" a Neil Young song. Sandy then sang the theme tune to Auf Weidersein Pet - "Livin alright" in order to introduce

Robbie from Sunderland, who got on stage and sang 'Hallelulia", "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" and then "Working class hero" a classic John Lennon song.

Sandy then asked Elspeth Durkin up to the stage to sing, accompanied on guitar by Bob Leslie. She sang "Autumn Leaves" and then "After the goldrush".

Alan Stewart was in this evening so he then performed "All I need is my guitar", "Maybe I'll find love again" and "Baby I love you".

Bert then played some slide blues with "Fallin' off a rock" followed by " She caught the KT" with some accompanyment by Bob Leslie on his guitar.
Ger McDade then took to the stage and gave us his usual stirring performance of his songs "Mum and Dad" and then "Hello Lois".
Sandy then sang another song [ dor Des] "Girl Talk" with some audience participation!
Bob Leslie then performed a couple of his own songs "Have I just woken" a new creation, followed by "The Devil ain't a friend of mine"
Annie Fagin then went up, with Sandy on guitar, to sing "Ramona".

Stuart Workman, with some harmonies on guitar from Bob, sang "Harvest Moon" and then "The Ballad of Billy the Kid".

They were then joined on stage by Jenny to perform "Summertime" and then "Eirie Canal".
Andy Logan finished the evening off with "Good-hearted woman" which segwayed into "Crossroads".

There then followed a short jam session whilst Sandy dismantled the equipment, before we were all finally asked to leave by the staff!!

Yet another enjoyable evening.

25th February 2010 -Clutha Vaults

I missed this session, but Sandy told me that not so many people turned up due to the bad weather, however they made the best of it and had fun when the musicians all decided to "sing each other's songs" [ie they songs which they usually sing!]