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1)
Bill and Mike with Quality Records’ Mel Mays 2) Pete nattered
with Bill at the PAVE Festival gig in Emerald

3) Michael
Cristiano, Wendy Stapleton and Paul Norton strut their trio
stuff
gig
report
Quality Records Malvern and the 3MDR benefit Elevation Emerald
Sat.
21.4.12
One
down, two up..

22.4.12 – I got a call
this afternoon from the St Andrews pub. It was Michael Granat
wondering where we were. I did my very best to let everybody
know about the ‘cancellation’, which, as it turns out, was more
a case of misadventure – and perhaps not surprising given the
events of the past couple of months. Anyway, all is forgiven
and we now have another date at St Andrews booked on Queen’s
Birthday weekend in June.
In the meantime, we had a couple
of gigs to do on the Saturday, the first at 2.00 in the afternoon
at Quality Records in Malvern. It was just Bill and me and it’s
a shop, so we were economical with the set-up. It’s one of our
favourite things to do these days – very quiet and relaxed with
a sprinkling of people we know turning up to say hullo.
Then it was off to Emerald for the annual 3MDR PAVE Festival
at the Elevation Restaurant & Bar. We got there just before
the Wendy Stapleton trio went on for the opening set of the
night. Sometimes the sound at Elevation can be a bit iffy, but
they sounded crystal clear – Wendy asked me if the sound-check
was OK as we went on. I’d decided to wing it set-wise and soon
regretted not having a set list, but we struggled through it
OK with an odd mixture of tunes. Half a dozen people got up
to dance for I’ll Be Gone – and then we were
gone.
Robbo stayed on and said the Models Super Orchestra was a lot
of fun – I couldn’t imagine seven people on the stage and Robbo
confirmed Andrew Duffield was actually playing out of mind,
out of sight from the wings.