This weekend I did my first gig with the fantastically sublime King Alfred’s Cakes band…
This is a new venture for me, as they girls have just lost their guitar player and asked me to step in as a possible replacement. Despite my initial reservations that I wouldn’t be able to do it (time restrictions, that I wouldn’t be up to it, that they needed a fingerpicking guitarist rather than a plectrum player etc..) I gave up worrying, learnt a few tunes and stood in with them at a local gig. . .
In that we had only a few, very brief, rehearsals, I have to say that the gig went really well and the sound they make is lovely – a mixture of very traditional folk tunes combined with a bit of Handel. They have just set up a MySpace page, which doesn’t contain any tunes as yet… However, stay tuned for more information and hopefully a few samples of the wonderful music they produce…
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