Gig report: Aidy @ The Missing Sock, Stow-Cum-Quy

Band: Aidy (acoustic trio set)
Venue: The Missing Sock, Stow-Cum-Quy
Date: 22/10/11
Audience: At best, 7 of them, at worst it was just the bar staff
Set: Make It Happen, Pain In My Heart, Down Like That, Maybe, God's Front Porch, 3 Years, Guns, Not Your Day, New Song, Prettyish, Miami Beach, 22, Washing Machine
Notes: My second gig of the day, a quiet one this. We were well looked after by the venue - I genuinely like The Missing Sock; it's a bright and colourful place, the staff are friendly and it's very quirky. For example, there are games on some of the tables, so pre-show we played 'Truth Or Dare' because we're a crazy band like that, unfortunately for Aidy one of his 'dares' was to perform a glove puppet show with one of my socks. As I say, it was my second gig of the day - my feet were proper sweaty. They gave us lovely food (I may go back as a customer one day), and a beer, and it's always good to socialise with Dave and Aidy so I enjoyed that element of the evening. There was a swear box, which was not ideal considering some of the lyrical content of the set. It's just difficult playing a gig in a restaurant when the people are (obviously) eating in the room next to us, so we pretty much played to absolutely nobody. We played okay though, especially the stuff we really knew (this was the touring Aidy line-up so we know these songs inside out by now), and I was home by 9.30pm, just a bit of a weird gig really.