Band: Fred's House
Venue: Corpus Christie College, Cambridge
Date: 21/09/13
Audience: Looked happy enough
Set: An hour or so of tunes
Notes: This show was a charity event for Tom's Trust, the event was a black tie bash within the beautiful grounds of Corpus Christie College in Cambridge. We'd dashed over from Folkstock, I quite like doing the whole three shows in one day thing - Folkstock was nice but bloody miles away, so ending the day with a gig closer to home is always a bonus. We played for an hour, outdoors, nice weather. Ignored, as expected - it's an early evening show and we were effectively the backing to a drinks reception, but I'm really enjoying being in this band - and gigs like this allow us to try out some songs I don't know perhaps quite as well as the established set. People responded occasionally, all very positive. After the gig the porter very kindly allowed us to leave our cars onsite, and we went to an excellent Thai restaurant for good food and banter. On returning, the new porter - and a member of staff - had issues with us and our cars being left there and things went weird for a bit. We played this gig for free, we gave up our time for free, we're very busy people - I'm not entirely sure why leaving our cars for an hour became such an issue. Luckily, in our bassist Gaffyn we have a man who is very much the voice of reasoning and the situation was eventually defused thanks to his professionalism, but I drove away with a sour taste in my mouth.
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