Friday Night : Portsmouth Guildhall :
The Illegal Eagles
Our friends had bought the tickets for our third gig by this tribute band and we hadn’t realised it was the first one of the new tour – hence the uncharacteristically hesitant opening number. I thought we were going to be disappointed.
But they quickly got into their stride and were belting out the numbers with customary energy. The second half started with the a capella version of “Seven Bridges Road” by Steve Young, with the band’s founder/drummer leading the quintet…
“There are stars
In the Southern sky
Southward as you go
There is moonlight
And moss in the trees
Down the Seven Bridges Road”
I found myself drifting off into a reverie of when we visited the volcano in Hawaii last year. Scrambling back to the road over the lava, in the inky blackness, someone behind said “Switch off your torches and look up”. With no streetlight or headlamp pollution of the darkness, the entire sky, from horizon to horizon, was a pure canopy of brilliant stars. And so prompted today’s lyric.
# posted by Mr.D. @ 12:16 PM
Drinking and Driving (but clearly not simultaneously)
