It's cold outside/And the paint's peeling off of my walls

Friday 25 April – we spin a coin, and tonight it’s the Roman Bath... The band de nuit are After Dark a 5 piece covers band specialising in music from the ‘70s and ‘80s. The band members are: Stuart Senior (Guitar, Keyboards & Backing Vocals), Steve Holmes (Drums), Steve Wormald (Vocals), Neil McDonald (Guitar & Backing Vocals), Gavin Handley (Bass and Backing Vocals). Now they weren’t the best band we’ve ever seen from a technical point of view, the vocals were a bit muddy, and the backing vocals flat, but the thing that really stood out was the refreshingly different covers that they did. Here we go trawling in the depths of my memory, and these are the ones that I remember: Joe Jackson (Is She Really Going Out with Him?, It's Different for Girls), Tubeway Army (Are Friends Electric?), Tom Robinson (2-4-6-8 Motorway), Thin Lizzy (The Boys are Back in Town), Bob Dylan (Knocking on heavens door), Queen (Crazy little thing called love), The Buzzcocks (Ever Fallen in Love), The Sex Pistols (Pretty Vacant), David Bowie (Heroes), Mott the Hoople (All the Young Dudes), Dr Feelgood (Milk and Alcohol), Sweet (Ballroom Blitz, Blockbuster, Wig Wam Bam), Bay City Rollers (Shang-a-Lang), Status Quo (Sweet Caroline), Hawkwind (Silver Machine), Cheap Trick (I want you to want me), Cockney Rebel (Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)), Roxy Music (Virginia Plain), Rod Stewart (Hot Legs), The Jacksons (Crazy Horses), The Undertones (Teenage Kicks), The Vapours (Turning Japanese), The Cars (My Best Friend's Girl). See what I mean?

Saturday 26 April – and a slightly later start tonight, A was finishing off some work from home. It was a slight return to the Bath to watch The Blueflies. An excellent band, top notch in the technical department, and a completely different kettle of kittens to Friday’s band, these do Hendrix, Cream etc. You’ve read about they here previously so I won’t bore you with the details. Suffice to say that I highly recommend this band. Their website appears to have vanished so I’ve linked to a fotopic site.