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The next Fresh n Live gig will be on November 5th October Gosh.. what an interesting night. not so many punters this time, but more performers than we knew what to do with. Luckily our new stage piano got well and truly used, with the very welcome return of Jnety (and freinds), and also by a lovely newcomer (details as soon as we find the performer's sheet) and of course our most regular piano regular Chris. By the way, on a piano note.. we have bought 2 music stands, so no more faffing about with music-on-the-lap (sorry Chris). We also welcomed a great new guy from California (details as soon as we find the performer's sheet), and a fantastic young girl of 12.. yes she was 12, but you would never have guessed, as she blew us away. really superb.. video up soon !!
September Oops.. the dimmer blew a fuse so no lights on the video.. so it's a bit dark, but at least we did. Only a few artists this month due to us not sending out any email reminders, but we still managed to have a pub stuffed to the gills with punters. We are currently sorting the video from October's event, and if we get time we will start to plough through the backlog of stuff from the last few months soon also.
August Sorry again about the lack of info here. We have a backlog of info and video to get through. Hopefully soon.
July 2nd Steve White - Matt - Ask- Al Neville - Alicia - Dan Neville - Little Miss - Other Theresa - David - Chris Hill - Emma Hot hot hot! The weather may have been sultry, but the acts on the Fresh n Live stage were smokin'! Yet more new people came to entertain us, as well as some old favourites - it's growing, by gosh. Highlights included Steve White's new song "It's Always Summer in Sainsbury's"; Other Theresa, our very first, hilarious (and rather splendidly rude) performance poet; Al and Dan Neville, a father and son team with very different styles; the Tom Waites-esque Matt; David's mellow sound and not one but two superb all-girl groups, Little Miss and Ask, featuring the soulful Alicia. Chris got everyone singing along to his piano tunes ("Bumpety bump, bumpety bump"), and even the wonderful Emma stopped serving pints for a while to treat us to a song - it's a family affair here, you know. We're looking forward to August 4th and some other musical or spoken word surprises - come along and join in! videos will not be available for some time.. sorry
June 4th Rob - Sal - Gary 'The Joker' - Steve White - Steven A Chin - Graham - Jenty - Joski - Tam - Tam and Gary - Melanie - Graham Larkby - Gary 'The Slide Lammin - Chris It just gets better and better. This was an absolutely rocking night, so much that Roger allowed us to extend the bar till 11 so we could fit in the last performers. Many, many thanks to all our returning performers, some of whom can now officially be classed as regulars (and very happy about it we are, too) - Rob, Sal, Steve White, Jenty, Joski, Gary the Slide, Gary the Joker and Chris Hill. As always, an extra frisson was added in the shape of brand new performers, all excellent - Stephen A Chin, Graham, Melanie, Tam and Graham Larkby - who also teamed up with Gary the Slide for an awesome race through the back catalogue of blues/r&b/rock. What a crescendo! Check out the video links to experience it for yourselves.. Gab x Video Links: click on lnks below to stream video clips. Windows Media Player for Broadband 512 or higher. Stephen A Chin 1 - Stephen A Chin 2 - Graham - Gary 'The Slide' Lammin 1 - Gary Slide 2 - Graham, Jenty and Joski - Tam - Tam and Gary 1 - Tam and Gary 2 - Graham Larkbey - Graham Larkbey and Gary Slide
May 7th Rob - Sal - Jenty - Joski - Steve White - Noors - Angelica - Chris Another corker of an evening. More new faces and a couple of old favourites (can we say that yet, after only three shows?). Many thanks to all of our performers: Rob and Sally doing rock and blues; the wonderful Jenty blowing the dust off the keyboard (at last!) with some jaunty songs, and Joski treating us to soulful self-penned tunes; Noors, back with his wicked low-fi reggae-rap (accompanied by the most up-for-it crowd we've had so far); Steve White leading us back through the Golden Arches for a third time (we all know the words now); Angelica whooping up some pop tunes and Chris, finally, making the keyboard feel positively loved after weeks of neglect with some hilarious old army songs. There was even a would-be stand-up with a couple of jokes. Aah, the fun to be had in The 'Stow of an evening... One thing - with the hot weather keeping people in the parks, the night was slow to start again, so it's been decided to put back the start time a wee bit. From now on, we'll be opening at 6pm and starting the music around 7-7.30pm. Thanks to all who played and those who drank and clapped - you all made the evening special. Come back again!
Video Links: click on lnks below to stream video clips. Windows Media Player for Broadband 512 or higher. Rob - Sally - Jenty 1 - Jenty 2 - Joski - Gabrielle - Steve 1 - Steve_2 - Noors 1 - Noors 3- Angelica - Chris
April 2nd Ken Jones - Barnaby O'Rourke - Paul Chi - Steve White - Keith John Adams - Emma - Danny Just got back from the April 2nd gig and I'm so excited - what a night! We had Paul Chi and Barnaby O'Rourke, on geetar and cello, all the way from Brighton - they made us swoon and chuckle in equal amounts - my friend Jen is in love... Book them to play in your very own living room here. Then we had cockney-country protest singer Steve White and old-style r&b/blues man Ken, who fell in love with the dulcet-toned Emma - it all happens here, folks, fuck dating.com. And then a wild card - Keith Adams, who borrowed my guitar on a whim and blew the place away - check out his website here. And then (as if all that wasn't enough), Danny came along with his blues harp and whistled us all down to Dixie on that big ol' freight train. Marvellous. So, the locals are all in love with us and the musos are coming back next month for some more FreshnLive - it's just blummin lovely. As Steve said to me tonight, "What other open mic can you go to where people come just to listen, not to play?" He's right - it's a great mix. If only we could get someone to play that bloody keyboard! x Gabrielle Video Links: click on lnks below to stream video clips. Windows Media Player for Broadband 512 or higher. Barnaby O'Rourke - Keith John Adams We now have the audio from Paul Chi's fabulous set, and will try and overlay it onto the video as soon as we can!
MARCH 5th Rhys Williams - Ian Ashley - Mike - Emma - Gil - Joey Hurst- Marc - Patrick Plunkett - Steve White - Gary Lammin - Maria Day - Noors The show on March 4th was a great success, with 12 performers playing virtually back to back for 5 hours. Despite nobody playing keyboards, which was a shame, we still had a great variety of people and styles from accapela to slide guitar, to some great soul rapping as well as lots of great accoustic guitarists. The important thing is that we managed to do what we set out to, which was create a very relaxed Sunday evening with lots of good music, where people can chill out with a drink and a 'pizza-in-the-pub'!
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