Alex 286 writes:Meet the newest addition to the band! He/she is a bit small at the moment to join in but will be ready to join the 286 from around the end of April 2011. In the meantime, I’ll be keeping an eye on him/her to make sure he/she learns all of the songs! Various members of the band have already got bets on as to what instrument the new band member will play: Liv favours the sax, Harry the trumpet, and I reckon, with that belly, it’s got to be a tuba player! And as for names, if the baby’s a girl, she’s spoilt for choice: Sophie Sands, Lisa, Louisa...we could even go for Molly Pitcher. Yes...Molly Pitcher Jackman has a certain ring to it!
In other news, we had a great gig on Friday at the Montague Arms in New Cross. What a fab pub! If you’ve never ventured there, in the immortal words of Bill Bryson, take my car and go. Voted the best boozer in Britain in 2008 by the Rough Pub Guide, it’s an olde-worlde pub (featuring a human skeleton perched on the bar and an embalmed zebra amongst other oddities) that looks like it’s been teleported out of the countryside and into the wilderness between New Cross and Peckham. The land lord has been running the Montague since 1967 and I understand from Spencer 286 that he told him he's seen it change from a gangster pub (frequented by The Krays no less) to one of the longest continuously running unsigned music venues in South East London.
It was a fun-filled gig and we even got some of the older gentlemen in the pub boogieing along to Lisa Part II (no mean feat). It was possibly the latest gig we’ve ever done – we didn’t finish playing till nearly 12.30am and so we were a bit worried that Nathan was going to turn into a pumpkin by the time we finished as it was waaaay past his bedtime.
In other news, we had a great gig on Friday at the Montague Arms in New Cross. What a fab pub! If you’ve never ventured there, in the immortal words of Bill Bryson, take my car and go. Voted the best boozer in Britain in 2008 by the Rough Pub Guide, it’s an olde-worlde pub (featuring a human skeleton perched on the bar and an embalmed zebra amongst other oddities) that looks like it’s been teleported out of the countryside and into the wilderness between New Cross and Peckham. The land lord has been running the Montague since 1967 and I understand from Spencer 286 that he told him he's seen it change from a gangster pub (frequented by The Krays no less) to one of the longest continuously running unsigned music venues in South East London.
It was a fun-filled gig and we even got some of the older gentlemen in the pub boogieing along to Lisa Part II (no mean feat). It was possibly the latest gig we’ve ever done – we didn’t finish playing till nearly 12.30am and so we were a bit worried that Nathan was going to turn into a pumpkin by the time we finished as it was waaaay past his bedtime.
It was also great to see Tom, our former violinist, who came along to support us and made us all very jealous by announcing he was off to Andorra for six months to ski.
The Montague Arms marked our last gig for a while as we get back into the rehearsal studio to learn some new songs and record some of our current material...oh yes, and we’ll be celebrating the wedding of Spencer 286 and Natalie in December too. Hooray! We’ll be back in the New Year (if not before) as we hit the festivals as well as doing lots of other gigs.
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