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Yak 3 - A Surprise Guest! During May we played a gig
at Chris Gray’s Troubador Studios in Falmouth. This was part of the
Falmouth Arts Week celebrations, and we looked forward to playing at
such an unusual venue. Chris carefully rearranged his workplace to
provide a really great atmosphere. The usual capers followed. We
were rammed in on the middle floor between an arts exhibition on the
second floor and the toilets on the ground. The arty toffs who visited
the exhibition stayed to come to our gig, get pissed and dance around
with surprising aplomb. A lady named Miff had organised the shindig.
She was eventually persuaded to dance too, overcoming initial
reluctance and Pete’s romantic overtures which involved leaping from
the stage and lunging lustfully at her with his tongue dangling out
(could've been worse). It turned out that among the
audience that night was no less than Spider Stacy of The Pogues. That
band! What they did with Irish music has been eulogised over many, many
times and has given us all such a buzz. At the end of the gig, Spider
joined us on stage and sang Dirty Old Town, a song we’d never played
previously. It went well mainly because he told us the key he wanted it
in; Helen even took a break - full marks! Spider was a down-to-earth,
unassuming person, and was a pleasure to do business with. We are now
all buying Pogues CDs, and in turn await massive orders of Mental Notes
from Spider and all his mates. This was our first foray into celebrity
guests (apart from Brenda, Hilly, Chris, Chris and Brett). Who knows
who might rock up next?
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