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The Royal Oak (The Dicky), East Bergholt
Back To the ‘Dicky’ this afternoon, one of our regular haunts where the barman has four legs, floppy ears and licks you instead of pouring pints! Angie was depping for Jo and we had a lovely audience…
German Christmas Market, South Woodham Ferrers
The festive season is now upon us with a couple of gigs where we get out the Christmas songs and have a lot of fun. (My favourite is ‘Must Be Santa’, and I am in awe of Martin who sings it so…
Hullbridge Social Club, private party
It’s always a pleasure for us to help celebrate the milestones in people’s lives, and this time the party was for Debbie and Len’s 20th wedding anniversary. We always promise to learn a new song for…
Gateway Club, Braintree
It’s that time of the year when we visit our old friends at The Gateway, Club, Braintree; a gig we always look forward to. Seven years ago, we made a video together in Braintree High Street…
The Royal Oak (‘The Dickie’), East Bergholt
Another trip over the border to Suffolk this week to the historic pub, affectionately known as ‘The Dickie’. We were cosily indoors with a good crowd, as the rain beat down on the windows outside…
The Woodcutters Arms, Leigh-on-Sea
I love gigs at new venues; people who have not seen us before, ideas, preconceived or otherwise, about the ukulele, unconvinced that it can leap, in minutes, from the gentle rhythm of ‘Only You’, to…
The Royal Oak (’The Dicky’) Pub, East Bergholt
It was back to the ‘Dickey’ on Sunday for an afternoon gig today. The music was not only appreciated by the human punters, but the pub dog got very excited during the ‘pig solo’ as he obviously…
Wivenhoe Funny Farm 20th Anniversary
This was definitely a ‘first’ for us, but a very enjoyable one. We were invited to play a set following an excellent array of comedians who were celebrating 20 years of making people laugh. It meant…
Two Sisters Arts Centre, Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk
It was a real treat to be invited back to this thriving arts centre by the local branch of Amnesty International, and it is well worth a visit, as it was once a village church and still has its…
The Norton, Cold Norton
Another regular for us, but this time we were outside, where we had a good crowd and two cats, who were obliging enough to join us from time to time on our balcony; yes – we had our own balcony! We…