Royal South 6 April 2023

Another venture into a slightly different genre was this country duo based in America but she is from Texas and he is from Essex. He was a good guitar player, very precise and confident and her voice was slightly like Alison Krauss' in timbre (but not in AK's league of course). Their material was fairly standard country and western but not the tacky kind and was a nice mixture of original songs with some covers thrown in. I particularly liked the cover of a Maren Morris song called 'My Church' - never heard of her or the song before but I am now playing the original. They also covered 'Ring of Fire' but I sort of missed the Johnny Cash vocal and 'Jolene'. All in all an entertaining evening.

Safety Last! + live music - 1 April 2023

The Harold Lloyd classic silent film was much funnier than I remembered it but I am sure the trio playing the music were part of that. They were brilliantly in tune with the film, seamlessly so. They were The Stephen Horne Trio - piano, violin and percussion. A bravura performance. The film was being played in particular as it is exactly 100 years old pretty much to the day.