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!