Tuesday 11 September 2012

Gig report: Jon Orchard @ The Royal Oak, St Ives

Band: Jon Orchard (acoustic duo)
Venue: The Royal Oak, St Ives
Date: 09/09/12
Audience: Lively
Set: Lots of covers
Notes: A nice if rare gig with Mr Orchard. Sunday night gigs are always a tricky one - half of the audience are there for a quiet drink to conclude the weekend, the other half are getting hammered to try and forget about the impending Monday. Either way, everyone seemed to enjoy it - mostly thanks to Jon's choice of songs, he has a repertoire that consists of real crowd pleasers and from a percussionists point of a view it was a pretty easy gig to play musically. Hard work at times though because it was such a long show, but when you're playing good songs, with a good fellow musician, in front of a lively crowd the time just flies by.

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