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Thursday, 29 July 2010

Feature #006 - So what did you do last Saturday evening? By Jean Dench - Metheringham Music Factory

Jean Dench - Metheringham Music Factory

Here I sit on the patio musing about the last few days and thinking how interesting life can be and how much we have to take each positive happening and hold it tight and treasure it.

Take last week for instance – my daughter decides she is going to be 21 – she is entitled to be 21 because she was born on 31st August 1985. To help her celebrate, her older sisters suggest another party like the one we had two years ago when we had a heat wave, three bands playing, adult bouncing castle, loads of food and everyone camping out.

Well the three bands happened but not so the weather – it was horrendous. Marquees erected with great effort in the morning, threatened to take off so had to be dismantled. The bouncing castle had to be deflated. The bands were relegated to the red rehearsal room. But believe me, that was a fantastic setting.

The manager of Nightvision set up the sound and it was as good as any dedicated music venue I have been to. My old band, the Saved, loved by my daughters, opened the proceedings with a really good set including their original opening anthem, We Are The Ones. To say they have been on the back burner since Laura went to Uni, with only occasional rehearsals, they played a pretty tight set. They kept it light and my girls and their friends were up and dancing together with many more. Not much space but the atmosphere was great.

Nightvision, less their bass player, who was away in Cornwall, followed and singer Dave took up a guitar to try to fill some of the emptiness left by him. As usual they rocked and at one point, the headlining band`s singer took up a bass and joined them for a much enjoyed rendition of Sandman. I admired them for taking to the stage without Dean as they realised their sound would be much disadvantaged but they had promised to play and didn’t want to let me down. Great bunch of guys. The evening was topped by a Festival Style performance by DISARM – the dirty deviant tramps from t`north. This was the third time I had seen them in action and was not disappointed. In the living room size confines of their end of the room, they took us to Reading, Leeds and Glastonbury.

Of course there were cries for more and they rounded off the evening with their version of Sex Pistols `Pretty Vacant`. Thanks to all three bands for a great gig.

So what did you do last Saturday evening?

email: jeanius@musicandleisure.fsnet.co.uk

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