On our two previous visits to Twickfolk we have supported Vin Garbutt and then Jez Lowe. So, it was with delight that we accepted an invitation to step up and perform as headliners at this prestigious folk venue.
We managed to park up and get to the club just as Twickfolk’s highly dedicated band of volunteers were arriving to lay out the club room for the evening. Like a well-oiled machine the p.a., lighting, seating, decorations and box office were quickly set up and we were ready for our sound check good and early. This is an impressive and highly professional club and the smooth progress through the sound check was testimony to this.
Audience members began to arrive around 8.00pm and it was nice to see amongst them some friends of ours who had travelled across London to come and see us perform.
The evening kicked off in style with club volunteer and MC for the evening, Paul, providing an excellent rendition of Crowded House’s Four Seasons in One Day. Given that the heavens had just opened outside on what had otherwise been a pleasant day, this seemed more than appropriate. Paul was followed by two other, excellent, local acts providing a mix of self-penned Jake Thackery- style reflections on life and some Dylan and Donovan classics.
Our own two sets seemed to fly by. From the stage, it felt as though our tale of murder and insurance fraud in Victorian Liverpool, ‘The Black Widows’, had gone down particularly well, and it was great for us to give another airing to new songs ‘We Met Upon the Barricades’ and ‘The Recompense’.
It was a delight to be asked to provide an encore at the end of the evening and to sign copies of recent CDs.
Then, as quickly as the evening started, we were saying goodbye to club members and our friends and watching the club’s volunteers once again hard at work, restoring the room to its previous state. Soon afterwards, we were on our way home through hitherto unvisited parts of London, directed by the mysteries of....the new sat nav.
Many thanks to all at Twickfolk for the invitation to perform at the club. Many thanks to John, John and Paul for all their excellent work on the p.a., lighting and MCing, to Sue and Sarah for all their hard work on the door and to Cillian for his hard work behind the camera. We wish Twickfolk all the very best for the future.