Gig report: Under The Streetlamp @ B-Bar, Cambridge

Bands: Under The Streetlamp
Venue: B-Bar, Cambridge
Date: 12/09/10
Audience: Seated, fairly polite, despite us being very much a sideshow to the comedy
Set: 3 short sets, a fairly unprepared range of covers and originals
Notes: This was a weird gig. We were on the bill of a new comedy night - where 9 brand new comedians, who have never before performed, bravely took to the stage after a weekend of intensive training. I might add, most of them were pretty good, particularly my old mucker Steve Matthew, who is a very surreal man. Under The Streetlamp performed as the audience walked in, during the interval, and 4 songs at the end. Due to the fact that we were only asked yesterday morning if we could do this gig, our bassist Chris couldn't make it, so we played acoustically - with Alister on the venue's upright piano, me on congas and Jess singing, we were a tad unprepared for this arrangement but got through it with relative ease - mostly because we felt so relaxed. Yes, there were times when we were very much the backing to people's conversations, but there was always generous applause and it was certainly one of the more easier gigs I've ever played.