Read the previous entry here I woke at a good time and had a nice cooked breakfast and had a nice gentle walk up to the town and arrived under the bridge just after the gig began, I made a mental note that aside from the Friday night incident I would decline to stay at … Continue reading Upton Jazz Festival 2018: Sunday Part One
Read the previous entry here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2O5tvfCdcQ I sat myself down at the left hand middle front row of the marquee and got myself a good view of the band, upon arrival I was slightly concerned that the band was called the Millington Legacy Band which to me implied a death in the band but … Continue reading Upton Jazz Festival 2018: Saturday Part Three
Read the story so far, here, here and here After the somewhat suspect “On A Coconut Island”, which I will have to admit that I did find myself humming many years ago while doing the Island Cruise around Les Rocques on my first trip to Margarita, the band changed to a more traditional number which … Continue reading Upton Jazz Festival 2018: Friday Part Three
When I was a child I was something of a gamer, of course growing up in the 80s and early 90's my gaming wasn't done on Worldwide Computer Communities, it was done on a Commodore 64 initially and later a Super Nintendo. One of the games I did like to play was a game called … Continue reading FOWC: The Fearless Vampire Hunter
Read the Previous Entries HERE and HERE I arrived at the gig and got myself a good seat near the front as there wasn’t a particularly large crowd for the event, possibly the tucked way nature of the tent was a contributing factor to this. The band were playing a number as I arrived and … Continue reading Upton Jazz Festival 2018 #3: Friday Part Two
Friday I woke in good time, indulged in two of the three “S’s” a gentleman conducts in a morning and headed down to the Hotel Bar for Breakfast: There was a good selection of cereals and a wide variety of fruit juice available alongside the cooked breakfast, naturally I went for a full English Breakfast … Continue reading Upton Jazz Festival 2018 #2 Friday Part One
My second real social attempts at karaoke took place in London in November 2015 when I went down to the big Smoke to visit my old friend Amy Cherry, we hadn't seen each other in person since previous when she visited me a for a few days. We met up twice and on the first … Continue reading A Night at the Opera (ii)
Last week was a late booked few days off work, it was a nice little recharge and some needed time doing naff all. Sunday I did the double and went to both the Sunday Lunch time gig at Albrighton, which was the new band "Frog and Henry", and the Evening gig at the Wild … Continue reading A Holiday for the Sandman
Light Motfits Three Thing Challenge: Bananas, Keyboard, Rattle As many of my readers know one of my hobby horses is to go and see live Jazz whenever I can. Being based in Shropshire this mostly involves going to local pubs which have Jazz nights. For a long period my regular venue was the Harp in … Continue reading 3TC: The Scribe
Slightly inspired by Crushed Caramel's post Party's Over Señorita Way back in 2009 just before Christmas.I went for a two week holiday on the Venezuelan Isle of Margarita which is in the Caribbean and is the closest island to the mainland of Venezuela. I had gone with Levi and Pete who were regular drinkers at … Continue reading A Night at the Opera
