57th Birthday Bash
The 57 th Birthday Bash; and just to be clear, the 57 th Birthday Bash wasn’t the 57 th Birthday Bash, but my 57 th Birthday Bash, and was the first to be held at The Arnold Arms. Tina and Matt put on a delicious buffet, for which I am very appreciative and about which, many of the attending performers and audience were highly complementary. Unfortunately, resident sound guru Craig was absent this evening, leaving a comprehensive instruction sheet for Shirley to follow in order to distribute the sound around the pub; unfortunately, not quite comprehensive enough. However, with many attempts by a wide variety of poking fingers, we ended up with a reasonable sound around the pub, but lost our monitors; you win some, you lose some! For a change, and because I had to wait for Paddy, the bass player, to arrive, the first performance of the evening was given by Marian and Pete. They began with a bit of Elvis, 'You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me'. Their next was a fab...