Tag: Southport

Videos: 55 Glorious Minutes of MY FACE!

If you are reading this, I can only assume that as a dedicated follower of my blog you also have an unhealthy obsession with MY FACE and videos thereof. In which case you are in luck, because throughout 2025 I collected a vast collection of videos of my various performances on all sorts of instruments, …

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The Gig Review: October 2024

A carnivorous plant hand puppet from a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors'.

GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, With the stars up above in your eyes, A fantabulous night to make romance, ‘Neath the cover of October skies.” – quoth Van Morrison, ‘Moondance’   As the days continue to shorten and the nights to lengthen, we yet …

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The Gig Review: September 2024

A newspaper photo of Scarborough Concert Ban d performing in Scarborough Spa Sun Court in 2013.

GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “The leaves of brown came tumblin’ down, remember, In September in the rain.” – quoth Al Dubin, ‘September in the Rain’   As we progress into the ninth month of the year it always feels to me as though things begin to slow down a bit. The …

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The Gig Review: July 2024

An extremely intimidating cat-shaped garden ornament.

GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “True love blooms for the world to see, Blooms high upon the July tree.” – quoth Nina Simone, ‘July Tree’   With the summer months now well and truly upon us and the academic year drawing to an end, July represents for many a period of winding …

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