The Malt 'n' Music summer night is live music night and there is a grave danger that the Malt 'n' Music men will all turn up in their 30 year old tour T-shirts and embroidered denim jackets! However, due to too many beers being drunk since the heady teenage days of metal concerts only recent T-shirts will cover the middle-age beer bellies! So everyone is respectfully attired apart from Malt 'n' Music man himself who turns up late after playing football complete in his replica Holland shirt - feeling a bit of a lemon (or should that be an orange!) in complete football strip - he sits well away from everyone else after-all whiskey should be enjoyed neat or at a stretch with ice but at all times the aroma should never be mixed with stale sweat!
The Little Drummer Boy is hosting and all the latest technology is at our fingertips as we relive the great gigs of our distance youth. The PM is first among equals and shows us a glimpse of his undemocratic youth with a 80's prog rock song about revolution - how big a step has he taken from youthful Guevara hopeful to Cheshire's hopeful but never elected candidate? And surely thats a bigger step than from 80's prog to Floyd!!
Next up is the host himself and he's handing out songsheets! The beauty of these themed nights is that the theme is never defined so its open to interpretation - confessing that he doesn't own a live recording of anything the Little Drummer Boy is going to make us sing... The only problem is that at only the 2nd song in we are nowhere near drunk enough... somewhere in the dark recesses of youtube is a video recorded by the Mav. please if you do happen to stumble across it for the sake of music and art leave it undisturbed.
As we thundered on through an englishman on holiday, shed tears in heaven and listened to Smashie (or was it Nicey?!) get a confession off his chest as he kept abreast with a young hopeful singer's career (don't ask - what goes on at Malt 'n' Music stays at Malt 'n' Music) - the Little Drummer Boy fired up the ovens.
Next up was Nicey (or was it Smashie?!) promising us a ballad, this you have to understand is like the PM promising us Pink Floyd, the young 'un declaring that he had brought another CD, the Mav bringing something other than Pease Pudding, anyone of us going home sober, the quizmaster annunciating allegorical, a sign of the end times!
What we did discover was that by ballad he meant the first 8 bars and then the rest of the song was as hard rocking as ever! By the time we had discovered this, survived the flood and the boy had eventually been persuaded to hoe corn unfortunately the half time chips were cremated! There was plenty of other fayre to line our stomachs with though - Pease Pudding from the Mav of course!!
The half time quiz was to match pictures of a venue with artists for people's favourite gig - did we really have a picture of 1980's Genesis at the Manchester Apollo (whoops what goes on at Malt 'n' Music stays at Malt 'n' Music - Too late!)
The second half of the evening was a fine mix of live music from start to finish with more 80's prog (much more self-indulgent in the 2nd half) hard rock, blues, singer-songwriter, pop and even a 60's classic.
It fell to the host to bring the evening to a close - which meant we were all singing again - but much whiskey, wine and beer had flowed so free of inhibitions the fishermen had a few more friends...
Next up is the host himself and he's handing out songsheets! The beauty of these themed nights is that the theme is never defined so its open to interpretation - confessing that he doesn't own a live recording of anything the Little Drummer Boy is going to make us sing... The only problem is that at only the 2nd song in we are nowhere near drunk enough... somewhere in the dark recesses of youtube is a video recorded by the Mav. please if you do happen to stumble across it for the sake of music and art leave it undisturbed.
As we thundered on through an englishman on holiday, shed tears in heaven and listened to Smashie (or was it Nicey?!) get a confession off his chest as he kept abreast with a young hopeful singer's career (don't ask - what goes on at Malt 'n' Music stays at Malt 'n' Music) - the Little Drummer Boy fired up the ovens.
Next up was Nicey (or was it Smashie?!) promising us a ballad, this you have to understand is like the PM promising us Pink Floyd, the young 'un declaring that he had brought another CD, the Mav bringing something other than Pease Pudding, anyone of us going home sober, the quizmaster annunciating allegorical, a sign of the end times!
What we did discover was that by ballad he meant the first 8 bars and then the rest of the song was as hard rocking as ever! By the time we had discovered this, survived the flood and the boy had eventually been persuaded to hoe corn unfortunately the half time chips were cremated! There was plenty of other fayre to line our stomachs with though - Pease Pudding from the Mav of course!!
The half time quiz was to match pictures of a venue with artists for people's favourite gig - did we really have a picture of 1980's Genesis at the Manchester Apollo (whoops what goes on at Malt 'n' Music stays at Malt 'n' Music - Too late!)
The second half of the evening was a fine mix of live music from start to finish with more 80's prog (much more self-indulgent in the 2nd half) hard rock, blues, singer-songwriter, pop and even a 60's classic.
It fell to the host to bring the evening to a close - which meant we were all singing again - but much whiskey, wine and beer had flowed so free of inhibitions the fishermen had a few more friends...
Malt 'n' Music 4
Live With Drunkenness
Track List
- Market Square Heroes - Marillion
- No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues - Fisherman's Friends
- An Englishman on Holiday - Thunder
- Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
- She's a Star - James
- What Is and What Should Never Be - Jimmy Page & The Black Crows
- Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel
- The Boy who Wouldn't Hoe Corn - Philip Henry & Hannah Martin
- Calling All the Heroes - It Bites
- Fool for Your Loving - Whitesnake
- Creepshow - Twelfth Night
- Stewart's Coat - Ricky Lee Jones
- Asking Around for You - Joe Bonamassa
- You Really Got Me - The Kinks
- Round Here - Counting Crows
- Bully in the Alley - Fisherman's Friends
