Gig Blog

My body hurts I feel like I've been 10 rounds with Mike Tyson and my voice is gone all because I forgot I was nearer 40 than 20 .The reason ... Big Country yes I know they were never the most trendy of band but they could always play LIVE. Since Stuart Adamson died the back end of 2000 there has been a void in live music and last night it was filled  again . The 3 original members were joined by Mike Peters and Jamie Watson who set the tone between remembrance and celebration just right. You could argue with set lists and the odd bum note. You could not argue that every one enjoyed earring these songs again and the mosh pit was in full flow and I WAS 20 AGAIN ...
From 1000 stars till the end I got younger and younger and so did every one else turning the time back when my voice would have been ok and my body would not ache.Some body said you can't have Big Country without Stuart .But they if half a band get together with a bloke from Free and call themselves Queen why not. BC were always a tight unit and with Mike they have a man who can do the job and Jaimie is as good a Guitarist as his dad .... So I'll be glad to see them again ...

Big Country are Mark ,Bruce ,Tony , Jamie And Mike... May The Road Rise Up To Meet You and STAY ALIVE ......

The Lost count Blog

Beer fests are great places to work when your skint but do have side effects ... Drinking 8% plus beer for 8 hour a day 3 days running takes its toll with symptoms which include. Furry mouth thick head and what did I say last night . Yet you can test some fine Beer I was lucky to be on the Bottle beer committee so I helped choose to beer . I can't remember or be bothered listing them all but here's stand out beers ...
1 Tripel Kalmanite .... The best beer in the world a couple of years ago and can't see a reason why not I got a few of them in to get rid of beers I didn't like .....
2 Arrogant Bastard from Stone ..... The Bottle is better than the beer and the beer is good a Throat scratching IPA in the Typical yank style ....
3 Hercule Stout ..... Just class 1 of if not the best stout in the world tastes great .....

                                         Beer fest ....



There were others but as I have said cant remember  them all...
Today is Piss up in a Brewery at Salamander in Bratfud ( Braford if your Foreign ) with a drinking club I'm a member of ... A group of us buy a barrel of beer and charge 1 pound a pint to pay for barrel nowt wrong in it as barrel is paid out of funds ........

No matter what The Twats in charge do to Feck up you money. Don't let your standards drop and keep supporting great beer ... Don't drink Carlsbog and Twatleys and other shite beers keep you standards high.....

Cheers Pubcrawler Dave .....