Band: Emily Blickem (with myself on percussion)
Venue: The Man On The Moon, Cambridge
Date: 12/07/11
Audience: A few friends, and a bunch of slightly confused exchange students
Set: Not sure, 4 or 5 originals and some covers
Notes: I'd been meaning/promising to play percussion for Emily for a while now, she writes really nice songs and is keen to get out there (for further proof of how good she is check out the video for her track 'Butterflies' on YouTube). She recently launched the open mic night at the Man On The Moon venue in Cambridge, a venue I know well from over the years, and she's genuinely trying to start something good for the local scene. This is the second week it's run, and it's not really kicked in to life just yet as there was barely any audience, and apart from us the only other performer was a man who played instrumental guitar for about three minutes. But the effort is there, and I'm certain it will take off, it deserves to. We were the house band for tonight, but as nobody else was really playing we ended up playing for quite a long time, starting with Emily's originals, and then branching into cover territory to keep things ticking over, doing songs by the likes of Loudon Wainwright, The Cure and some film soundtrack stuff. It was good fun, the 5 audience members joined by a sudden influx of foreign exchange students, who looked confused at first but despite the language barrier they became really enthusiastic so our extremely unrehearsed set went down very well. As a result, it was a surreal but nice enough evening and we'll do it all again in a couple weeks time.
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