Friday 12 December - it had been a long week and to round it off I'd made an horrendous hash of organising our Friday entertainment schedule. We'd planned to see four bands that we hadn't heard of down at Fibbers; Blessed By A Broken Heart, I Am Ghost, Devils Gift, and Fei Comodo for just £6. Bargain, except it was actually £12 which is a bit steep if they turned out to be naff. So at the last moment we switched venues to O'Neill's on Low Ousegate where The Mojos were playing, a York 5-piece covers band, extremely professional and very good indeed.
The Druid fell by the wayside. Caught out by a combination of foul weather and buses not bothering to turn up, he realised that the gods were against him and shuffled back home. 'A' was a bit adrift, the band had already started playing, but he brought along his son, Dan, who is studying at Hull University. Dan knew his music and we discovered a shared enthusiasm for Australian drum n' bass outfit Pendulum. I'm a particular fan of Propane Nightmares and Granite off their In Silico album.
Anyway, back to the band in hand, who consist of: Dave (vocals and guitar), Andy (lead guitar and vocals, uses the same chip shop as me!), John (bass guitar and vocals), Mark (keyboards), and, standing in for Phil, Hannah Dickinson (drums). Hannah also has her own band, (Hannah and the Junk Funk).
Now I nabbed the set-list off Mark (keyboards) but they didn't play everything in the order on the hymn sheet and there were I few extra bits. The first half of their set comprised some or more of: I Want To Break Free (Queen), You Are All I Have (Snow Patrol), Ruby (Kaiser Chiefs), Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry/ELO), Another One Bites The Dust (Queen) with a segue into Superstition (Stevie Wonder), Valerie (The Zutons/Amy Whitehouse), and Power Of Love (Huey Lewis & The News).
They then took a break for refreshments before kicking off again with: Don't Sop Me Now (Queen), Let Me Entertain You (Robbie Williams), Summer Of '69 (Bryan Adams), Sultans Of Swing (Dire Straits), Hold The Line (Toto), Le Freak (Chic), Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry), Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid), Gimme Some Lovin (Spencer Davis Group/Blues Brothers) with a segue into I Believe In A Thing Called Love (The Darkness), Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses), Jump (Van Halen), Merry Christmas Everyone (Slade), and Rockin' All Over The World (Status Quo). Also, someone in amongst that lot I'm sure I also heard Livin' On A Prayer (Bon Jovi), 500 Miles (The Proclaimers), Beautiful Day (U2) and This Love (Maroon 5), although they did a big medley in the middle where they bombarded us with masses of riffage which filled my head with all sorts of extra stuff.
All-in-all it was an excellent performance. I'm not a big fan of funk, but the few funk tracks they played got a large number of ladies up and dancing, which is always a bit of a bonus.
We poured back into the black night where a sub-zero gale threatened to tear the frozen lips off our faces so we didn't hang around and swiftly made our separate ways home.
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