Verbal Warnings cup is full to overflowing at the moment, last Saturday we were in Horncastle and, no, it didn’t snow surprisingly, decided to stop over rather than drive the 70 miles back after the gig which made a pleasurable couple of days away. Decided to go and watch the Rugby in the pub on Saturday afternoon Wales and Scotland were on and I said to Wendy Verbett “What’s the Score” as I was ordering drinks, she said ”37-44”, so I looked across to have a look “bloody hell” I replied “it’s not even half time yet”, when we sat down we realised we’d been looking at the clock which had been stopped for an injury, it was actually 3-9 or something like that, God knows what the barmaid thought.
The Gig itself was another VW triumph, we didn’t empty the pub like we did last time we were here, did a couple of encores and everybody was well pleased, we're back in October, there’s a independent review of the gig on the pubs newsletter which is rather gushing in its praise, all perfectly true though http://www.verbalwarninguk.com/media/OldNicksReview.pdf ....
On to the Greyhound the last night, which is a home game for me, we’ve not been back for 18 months, I think we upset the landlord last time by being too loud, so we needed a good one. On the way in I stumbled while carrying my amp in and the momentum made me crash head first into the wall, as I looked up in a rather dazed state I realized I’d headbutted a Verbal Warning poster, a good omen as it turned out, the first half went down well despite me messing up Daydream Believer again, I keep getting a mental block on that one, one of the guys that helps at the pub who bears an uncanny resemblance to Uncle Albert out of Only Fools and Horses remarked how well we were playing and how much we’d improved, we must have really been off form last time. The place really warmed up for the second set, after the first encore a VW first occurred, when a rather scantily dressed young lady exposed her breasts so we would do two more, one for each breast apparently, an event witnessed by Drummer Boy and Singer Boy, but, would you believe it? Me and Guitar Boy missed it, typical, we were probably too busy looking at our fretboards, We finished up doing a 5 song encore, a record I think, perhaps the bands own Statto, Drummer Boy, would be able to confirm it. Anyway we redeemed ourselves with the landlord, we’re booked again for September 18th.
Next gig is at the Sitwell Tavern, another place we’ve not played in a while after I’ve had a week’s holiday in Gran Canaria.
