Hiyah,

I've notched up another couple of good shows so far this week at The Acoustic Lounge and Monkey Chews. Both great venues with really appreciative audiences. Really looking forward to the legendary Troubadour tonight!

A short interview with me by Netherlands-based Americana website Hanx.net can be read here.

My whole approach to gigs has had to change recently. Previously I treated them as a night out, which usually began in the afternoon. A beer sponge such as myself could be beyond performing at his peak by show time.

This never previously worried me, but now the audience is paying to be entertained it seems only reasonable that they should at the very least expect me to be capable of actually sitting upright in a chair without bubbles of spit decorating my beard.

The period between the soundcheck and performing can last an eternity. Nursing one or two pints over a three or even four hour period is testament to my newly found professionalism and dedication to my art.

However, the stranger in a strange town faces hidden dangers in the form of stealth beers, unusually subtle in flavour but possessed of supernatural strength.

"Yes, I'll just have one of those bottled ones please, the one with Orson Welles' ruddy faced cousin on the label."

"I wouldn't have more than two of those, sonny" a wise fag ash encrusted crone intones whilst fixing me with her one good eye.

Her make up routine appears to consist of dipping her whole head in a bucket of cerise powder. She digs me, I can tell, the dusties go for me in a big way.

Nick
nick@nicksaunders.co.uk
www.nicksaunders.co.uk

"A treasure to hold on to" 10/10 - Americana UK

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