It is hard to believe that this is our 5th Bangers And Mash Night, particularly as in the last three years we have had three different landlords, and the last two appeared shortly before a bangers and mash night. This time Tara included some plain pork sausage in the mix which pleased at least one regular. There was also a very delicious, spicy vegetable chilli and baked potato.
My opening included, by request, 'In The Woods (Like Bear Grylls)'. I was hoping for a bit of percussive accompaniment from Ross, but his sausages arrived just as we finished 'Old Town Blues', and he was off like a scolded whippet. While I declared that I hoped he'd burned his mouth and given himself indigestion I didn't mean it. I couldn't blame him for his hurried exit, as Janet was present and his sausage might have been under threat. I only sang the one in the second half, 'Spade'.
No Strings Attached
were both plugged in, and for the first time in years they were heard
as clearly at the back of the room as they were at the front. I missed the title of their first half medly of reels but in the second half they played 'News of The Victory' and 'The Three Captains’.
self penned, inuendo packed celebration of
sausage, ‘Herman the German’s
Sausage Shop’ which related to his experience of just such an
establishment. Another self penned, but more serious, Tommy, about
the Christmas Truce. His final song of the night was quite possibly
the best song of the night. A parody of John Denver’s Leaving on A
Jet Plane, ‘It’s a Bugger When You Leave From Heathrow. Anyone
who has flown package class has experience of the horrors of airline
travel.
In their second
half, a very moody performance of the timeless American folk classic, 'Poor Wayfaring Stranger' and then the much lighter 'It’s Illegal, It’s Immoral or it makes you Fat' by The Beverley Sisters.
'Hey There Delilah', by
The Plain White Ts.
Steve Edgar Killing
Me Softly, originally recorded in 1972 by Lori Lieberman, made famous
by Roberta Flack in 1973. Steve didn't quite have the confidence to have his face gently strummed by a male singer, so he tweaked the lyrics. I think that he would have got away with it. It's a cracking song and Steve performed it superbly. Back to the war, Steve then gave us the song that everyone thinks they know until the verse, John McCormack’s 'It’s A Long Way To Tipperary'.
Regular audience
member Pete commented on a recent song that Steve had performed , Pink
Floyd’s Granchester Meadow’, saying that it reminded him of a lovely folk song
written by John Connely and recorded by Tony Capstick ‘Punch and Judy Man'. His last of the evening was one we've heard him play before, but not as often as we'd like, Doctor Hook and The Medicine Show's 'Silvia’s Mother'
We are still on for December's Xmas Warm-Up, complete with shit raffle and the odd Christmas tune.
Come and help us end the year in style. That's Friday 7th December, starting at 8pm as usual.









