16th April 2007, Herga Folk Club

16th April saw us make our way to a singers night at the Herga Folk Club. High quality unaccompanied singing, especially from the well known Johnny Collins. Clearly, competing with background noise from the adjacent Pinner Social Club can be tough for some of the quieter singers. We got chance to do a couple of numbers before club favourite Graham - sorry don't believe we were given a surname - ended the evening with half a dozen unaccompanied songs.

We also got hold of the recent copy of the local folk music review magasine Unicorn , and found in it a very fair review of our CD The Kingshill Valley, by Mike Blair of the Bedford Folk Club. In essence, Mike was kind about our ability to play but wanted us to cut loose a bit more. This is a truth that we had reached independently ourselves a little while back and have been introducing a lot of more upbeat material since starting to play the clubs. Mike also rightly suggests that we should have Rob playing his guitar more - after all he is an extremely accomplished classical guitarist. This too we have been doing, using it on tracks like 'When I took my horse to water' and 'You came to me in sunshine'. We would like to thank Mike for his comments and we have resolved to make our way to Bedford Folk Club so that he can see the results for himself. We hope he approves.

Rob and I are next up as headliners at St Albans Folk Club on the 13th May. , so we are rehearsing hard for that. We are also bringing forward the next batch of songs - one self penned by Rob and I about the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and a few more French songs.