Blogging and trogging - Soul Circus
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Nov 18th 2009 Soul Circus
Just occasionally life throws up a curved ball and you find yourself grinning with delight at the sheer bonkerness of it all.
Ryan and I left the Climbing wall for a bit of tea, driving past Symon Donovans old office we spotted the intriguingly titled restaurant 'The Rude Shipyard' and took the initiative to do something different. Basically it's a bookshop that serves Pie and Peas suppers, perhaps that's not fair, I'm sure they do loads more great food, but that's what we had.
We camped ourselves in the upstairs front room with a bottle of wine. There was only one table and two chairs which we took as there was nobody else around - sweet albeit a little strange. The surreal started in buckets though as dozens of Pie bearing individuals descended for a 'Songs and Whispers' gig from several singer songwriter musicians including some visiting Germans. Dave Roberts Effect played his fabulous unique style of slide guitar and Robert Carl Blank who has put together this great album - Soul Circus got down to some touching vocal and guitar work. It would have been brilliant except that it was better than that - the music and singing were altogether from a bigger stage, quite sublime and of the moment. We all still sat there with big grins on our faces as we were treated to some of the best live intimate gigging we'd been privileged to be a part of. All soul definitely, and on a Wednesday night too!
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