Out with the Auld.
At last, we’ve taken the decorations down (or not even put them up depending on your love/hate stance), re-cycled the cards from Auntie Nance and Uncle Jerry, sweeped up the pine needles and got stabbed through the mitten in the process! All the post-noel jobs have been done, yes, back to normal, onward, strongest foot forward, pro-active minds on charge. We’re ready basically. Ready for what? For blimmin’ 2012 (keep writing 2021) and for, er, SUNDOWN!!
Our first Sundown of the year shall take place on Sunday, February 26th @ The Alex, 7:30pm. We already have some treats in mind for you so keep checking the website for as and when they’re confirmed. After Feb, we’ll be at the Union Chapel on Saturday, April 21st, 12-2pm for our successful collaborative event with the Arctic Circle, known as ‘Daylight Events’. This is a FREE shindig with a refreshments stall that raises money for London homeless charity The Margins Project. It’s always a good’un, don’t miss it. So far we can confirm that we shall have the excellent musical comedian JAY FOREMAN, who has just been touring with DAVE GORMAN. Exciting. So what follows April? Well, we have our regular performance at the Leigh Folk Festival, 22-24th June, where we have a stall on the Saturday in the Library Gardens. This is fun because people bring cakes and ukeleles and 2nd-hand books and stickers and we all just sort of sit in the sunshine, or misguided rain, having a chat and a giggle whilst listening to the folk, drinking fizz in plastic cups. On the Sunday, we’ll be in the Clarendon venue with…so far….MATT BOULTER and THE FANCY DRESS PARTY (more acts, including comedy & poetry TBA).
We will also be performing at another local festival in June but I’m keeping schtum about that until I have more details. In September, we are planning a big, exciting Sundown project which I shall tell you more of soon. I’m being quite mysterious aren’t I? Yes. You like it don’t you? Yes. What am I wearing? That’s not important right now (except a ‘Lund’ style jumper and nothing else!) but as ever, keep checking the website. We’ll have our annual BIG BIRTHDAY BASH in November where we celebrate being 9 years old. Crikey. There’s talk of a Christmas Po’Down in December but it’s far too early to be talking about Christmas 2012 (or, 2021) so we’ll leave that for now.
Yes, a lot going on this year! Please feel free to get in touch with us if you’d like to perform at Sundown, indeed we’re going to be putting on another Open-Mic event @ Rayleigh Library, one evening this year and soon hopefully. So, what have you been reading? I’m reading a book called The Death and the Penguin once recommended to me by Ben Eshmade of www.jointhecircle.net and so far, I quite like it. A book I read this year and loved was – Just Kids by Patti Smith. Oh, it was marvellous. Beautifully written it was. Television wise? I’m still not over The Killing or Forbrydelsen and have series 2 ready and waiting. A friend, who looked a lot like Richard Sandling, introduced me to American comedy series; Community, so I’ve been enjoying that. Movies? I’ve not been that enthralled with a lot of films this year but absolutely LOVED Beginners with EWAN MCGREGOR, it reminded me of Lost in Translation. If you like quaint, stunning, thoughtful indie films then this is your ticket. Anyway, rambling again. Happy New Year to all of you, we look forward to seeing you at a Sundown soon. Our 2012 (21) advice to you? Eat less bread, get a bobble hat, realise that most of life’s unanswered questions are stored in the bobble, don’t let the bobble go a-foot in the 90mph winds, eat less bread.
Au revoir onions.