Yesterday, Incredible Planet, Darren Poyzer and Kevin Farrell, played at The Ship Inn in Lathom, near Manchester. This is what I had been hoping to see when I came by here but which did not look like it was going to happen until some time on Saturday. There was no way I was going to leave and miss it.
There's a wonderful circle of musicians here in which they all know each other and play in many of the same pubs and cafes. The area is musically-rich and it's no exaggeration at all that there's music all over the place. Maybe you think of course there is music everywhere as The Beatles and so many bands came out of Liverpool ... but that was a long time ago. Nevertheless, the vibe is still very much alive. While they were setting up yesterday, a lady stopped by to ask if there would be live music today. They told her there would and she was most pleased as if to say, "I've been waiting for this."
I enjoyed the show thoroughly as they did two sets, the first shorter and a little softer with the latter more pumped up and running to their close at about 16:00. The only part that didn't work was they were singing for the sun to come out. It did try but never really did manage a full appearance. Many people were wearing t-shirts and Darren was laughing from the stage at the Greek wanderer who was wearing a lined jacket and was freezing! So far, the only thing missing from the English heat wave is ... heat!
There will be a highly-visual follow-up report on the show as I caught almost all of it on video. There's no way I can process close to three hours of music to put it all up on YouTube but I've given the masters to Kevin and I will upload a subset of them so you can see some of the show. Describing it in prose is all very well but nothing tells the story like a video, particularly with music.
Darren laughed after hearing we had been to George Borowski and the Fabulous Wonderfuls yesterday and said, "How can we possibly follow that?"
They followed George's show very well!
There's a wonderful circle of musicians here in which they all know each other and play in many of the same pubs and cafes. The area is musically-rich and it's no exaggeration at all that there's music all over the place. Maybe you think of course there is music everywhere as The Beatles and so many bands came out of Liverpool ... but that was a long time ago. Nevertheless, the vibe is still very much alive. While they were setting up yesterday, a lady stopped by to ask if there would be live music today. They told her there would and she was most pleased as if to say, "I've been waiting for this."
I enjoyed the show thoroughly as they did two sets, the first shorter and a little softer with the latter more pumped up and running to their close at about 16:00. The only part that didn't work was they were singing for the sun to come out. It did try but never really did manage a full appearance. Many people were wearing t-shirts and Darren was laughing from the stage at the Greek wanderer who was wearing a lined jacket and was freezing! So far, the only thing missing from the English heat wave is ... heat!
There will be a highly-visual follow-up report on the show as I caught almost all of it on video. There's no way I can process close to three hours of music to put it all up on YouTube but I've given the masters to Kevin and I will upload a subset of them so you can see some of the show. Describing it in prose is all very well but nothing tells the story like a video, particularly with music.
Darren laughed after hearing we had been to George Borowski and the Fabulous Wonderfuls yesterday and said, "How can we possibly follow that?"
They followed George's show very well!
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