Inadequate Superlatives Abound
I had been looking forward to this open music night for months. In the summer, Shirley and I had visited the acoustic stage at Coventry's Godiva Festival to see The Danny Ansell Band perform. They were good, and well worth the effort. But, before they came on, we saw someone else that blew us away with the quality of her voice and the liveliness of her performance. I suggested to Shirley that she would make a cracking Open Music Night Guest if we could persuade her to come and play for us before the inevitable stardom catches up with her, and we did. For a variety of reasons it had to be November or nothing. We were a bit late getting our open mic performers through. There was a late addition to the list and then some technical issues with Brian's guitar meant that we were half an hour late in inviting Taylor Louise to the perfromance area. As we expected, she did not disappoint, from the moment she kicked off with a cover of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, and her own songs ...