Yellow Snow
It will take more than a yellow snow warning to stop a merry band of minstrels from enjoying themselves down at The Feathers.
Fourteen turned up to perform, plus the same number again who came to enjoy the entertainment.
Tom, Dick & Harry were joined by John Bass to get things moving at the “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness”. Then Chris, Glyn Hudson and Bob Hall respectively honoured Neil Young, Willy Nelson and Gerry Marsden.
The Kinks were on Joe Lyon’s mind as he painted us a “Waterloo Sunset”.
She might have been nursing a sore thumb but you wouldn’t know it, listening Penni Neale’s stunning performance of “Autumn Leaves”.
“It’s all right now” sang Lynda Degney in Rick Nelson’s “Garden Party”, accompanied by her husband Tom, who went on to sing about Darcy Farrow in his solo spot.
With backing vocals from his wife Penni, Bob Neale put his money on Kenny Rogers’s “The Gambler”.
“The Punch and Judy Man” was the opening song from Ruthin AllStyles first-timer Dave Noakes. He was obviously looking forward to the summer following up, as he did, with the Chris Foster song about the swallows “Flying High, Flying Free”.
Another antidote to the cold snap came as Neil Martin harked back to the 1990s and warmed our hearts with a song he had written on a sun-kissed beach in Tobago, followed by Elton John’s “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word”.
Alan Thompson aired another song from Ryan Adams’ back catalogue and then enlisted the help of his sister to provide some beautiful backing vocals on one of his own compositions “Take Me To the Place”.
Then to finish the evening it was back to Tom Dick and Harry who took us on “The Walk Of Life” with Richard on lead vocals.
And for an encore, they give us Harry Robertson’s lovely ballad “When I Danced With You”.
3 February 2019 @ 10:31 pm
Hi Chris and Jayne, Sorry we missed it again, sounds like we missed a good night. Here’s some interesting news for us MERRY HELL fans, I was setting up Val’s new phone, putting on some apps she wanted, (Tibetan Mantras, Buddhist Chants, the usual things.) and thought I would put Shazam on as well, We’ve been listening to Virgin Anthems on the radio, and I had been using mine to place some songs I couldn’t remember, (no crappy DJs to tell you what’s on, just music), Showed her how to use it, The Police were in, Message in a Bottle, up it comes, nice 80s picture of Sting and co. with the name and title, about 5 seconds. Thought I would try it with something it wouldn’t Know, latest Merry Hell CD was on top (whose heard of Merry Hell on a worldwide sound stage like Shazam covers.) Anthems to the Wind.
I put the first Track on, Drunken Serenade , the very first song I ever heard them play! but it doesn’t even sound like Drunken Serenade anymore, its all acoustic and Fiddely. Five seconds later…Drunken Serenade featuring The Banshee Reel. Merry Hell. (I didn’t know it featured any Banshee Reel.
They are going Big. I hope you can get them back. (so not a word to Damian!) Best done soon?
Then Looked for my Tom Dick and Harry CD to try that but couldn’t find it, (don’t tell Linda, she’ll want to sell me another!)
Regards Ron and Val,
PS. Struggling to get past your requirement to have a URL before I can send??? but really good site and article.