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The 12th saw the band back at the Piranha Bar on Hayling Island for a late booking. What a fabulous gig, there were a host of sailoring chaps in who were a great audience to play for! One guy, who was particularly complementary said we have a very original sound which has elements of Flora Purim about it. When I got home looked her up on the best invention the internet ever came up with, YouTube, and I think he's right. There is a latinesque sound to her music which is also present in lots of ours. Because there's so much space in the venue, instead of being trapped behind the piano as I usually am, I moved out in front for the songs I wasn't playing on so I could sing unencumbered. It made such a difference to the mood of my singing, easier to engage for me, I wasn't worrying about knocking the piano flying with my expressive gesturing (flailing arms) or neat little dancing steps (stumbling)  Best fun we've had at a gig so far!

So, for the weekend I thought a little trip to Dublin was in order. I was off to see a friend, Michele Moran, in her own show, written and performed at Bewleys Cafe Bar on Grafton Street, Sequin Dreams. http://www.fringefest.com/programme/sequin-dreams  I think it was the tag line that convinced me (apart from the email from Michele) - "I may have been bad but I was always good company" -
So Saturday morning at the very crack of the day I was winging it over the Irish sea to spend the day in Dublin prior to seeing the show at 6. What a show! An hour of true tales of showgirls in the sixties, cleverly woven into a silk scarf of characters whom we got to know by their voices, their songs, their joys and their woes. It was beautiful to watch and totally engaging, with the perfect amount of pathos mixed with side splitting humour. If you're over that way the fringe fest is still on and there may be time to catch the show, if it's not sold out by now! Hurry up!

I would also like to add that any rumours of any of us licking waiters whilst under the influence of Guinness are grosly over exaggerated. My behaviour is always akin to holy as you know. I would also like to say that should Paddy Jo (Michele's brilliant brother and incidentally the whole family are wonderful!) ever did a show I would definately go to that! Sunday I did the tourist thing again, after I'd recovered from the sherbet, and was inspired to write a poem in the middle of St Patrick's Cathedral inspired by something Carmel, lovely writer I met the night before, had said. Thumbs up from me all round!