Well, due to real-life getting in the way even more than the Christmas build-up, rehearsals as a full band were indeed very thin on the ground as we approached our late April gig. Rather than doing a bit of quick thinking and rope in a support act, we stuck to our guns of playing the full evening, with an intermission.
We'd managed a very loose run through of the first set about five weeks before - and then not managing to all meet again until the very week before for a stumble through what was to form the second collection of songs. Rehearsals in other reduced versions of the line-up had been encouraging, in the weeks between, however - well, actually, very good, in fact.
So, to the gig itself. We were a little shambolic. As ever there are always fluffs, here and there. It's live music. And almost every song has at least some element of improvisation going on. But the new songs; 'A Minute With You', 'Quiet Times' and especially 'You'll Never Get To Heaven Alive' were really good and very well received!
