Jan 21, 2012 | The Red Lion | Newquay
ALRIGHT, so Tony was a tiger and not a lion, so the title of this blog post doesn’t really work. But cut me some slack would ya!?!
Now, we’ve seen some incredible things on dancefloors in our time, but this show at the Red Lion really won some awards.
First of all, if you’re a single guy, it’s really not cool to try and drag every single girl up to the dance floor, regardless of how much you’ve had to drink and how much they protest. We all love a dance (who doesn’t, right? : ) so I felt sorry for this guy and took my guitar off during a wild Harry Douglas solo to go and have a boogie with Billy Elliott.
Turns out he only wanted to jive with ladies, and my Joey Tribbiani moves only served to embarrass him through the medium of dance. He looked all flustered and left the floor.
Imagine my disappointment.
But what’s far, far worse if what I was told at the end of the show.
Apparently, the aforementioned lovely chap was dancing with a complete stranger when he decided to “jab her with a finger” in what can only be described as her Sacred Downstairs Region Reserved For Loving Partners Only….shock, and horror.
Who thinks they can get away with that?! And at what stage of the night do you think “it’s going well, the time’s right….I’m gonna jab her with my digit…”?!?!
It reminds me of a favourite one-liner true story I was told a couple of years ago. Imagine nightclub, interior, music banging away, lights swirling, teenage bodies sweating away to the beat…..and a massive, bald-headed bouncer, who turns to an amorous couple and simply says: “Oi, mate – she ain’t a bowling ball – get your fingers out of ‘er!”
But it was a great gig, and we loved every bit of it – always brilliant to see familiar faces, and we never tire of hearing nice things from people that are seeing us for the first time. Thank you, all.
The only slight downsides for me were:
* I couldn’t use my delay pedal because Line 6 can’t seem to manufacture power supplies to last longer than 6 months.
* We spent a bit of time sorting out a seperate sound mix for a live recording. Then I forgot to press record…
Still, we can try again at Bunters in Truro on Thursday (Jan 26) and Shiners in Bodmin on Saturday (Jan 28).
Remember: fingers are only to be used to hand over money to the bar staff, securely hold an alcoholic beverage or to create a fist of metal!
\m/
-GB
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