Band: Jon Orchard (with Neil Cowlan and Paul Richards)
Venues: The Carpenters Arms, Cambridge (pub set)
Date: 12/03/10
Audience: Ranged from next to nobody, to polite gathering, to full-on enjoyment, then back to polite gathering
Set: loads of songs
Notes: One of the gigs I was more apprehensive about compared to other recent shows, simply because I'd never played live with Jon before - or even rehearsed with him. To make things potentially more awkward, Neil Cowlan on guitar was also in a very similar boat. Yet, somehow, eventually it works. I was on percussion, Neil is a genius, and as for Jon himself - well, I've not played with a more composed frontman before, and the songs are good too. By the end of the second set I felt we were really flying after a slightly nervy start. On the pub circuit there's lots on the cards with Jon, and we must have done something right on Friday as the venue offered us a monthly booking there, and with the original stuff - well, there's some very exciting things in the pipeline too...as for Friday, it was never going to be a classic, but in an unspectacular kind of way I came away feeling excited with life in general.
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