Got to bed after Southampton at 4 am and failed to get back to sleep after hubby went to work at 7, so bleared around all day. However, we could not stay curled up at home tonight as it’s Liz’s birthday! And Marjan and I are invited – hooray! – to celebrate with her at a nice pub in the village of Wrecclesham where Micky Kemp and band played for her and a large and lively gathering of friends and family All Night Long at what was definitely the best birthday party I ever attended.
Actually, I don’t think Micky played All Night Long, but I didn’t write down the setlist as my wrist needed rest and I didn’t want to spend Liz’s birthday working…But he had certainly learnt, for Liz’s sake, a whole bunch of Jukes songs: I know he did Hearts of Stone, All I Needed Was You, Talk To Me and I Don’t Want To Go Home, with Glasgow John on backing vocals.
Micky instructed John to “do Southside” so we were treated to the highly unusual sight of Glasgow John waving his arms wildly and even actually dancing – or certainly moving his feet. But of course he was supposed to be doing Southside!
Micky also did some of the nicest of his own songs: Falling Apart At The Seams, Marianne, Taking Care of Midnight; a bunch of Bruce, including No Surrender and From Small Things Big Things Come, which led to a rousing version of Dave Edmunds’ You Keep A-Knocking. Other highlights were Sweet Little Sixteen (which of course is what Liz has just now attained, and no arguments, please), She’s About A Mover, Copperhead Road and a drum solo which Micky insisted had to be”double-time”, and then “triple-time” in an attempt to outdo Joe at Southampton.
And after that memory fails, but not before noting that a jolly good time was had by all.