Wanting to be sure of reaching the Great kNight Folk Club in good time, I picked Rob up from the station and we set out for our first visit to this excellent Northampton-based folk club. The capricious nature of motorways was such that, of course, we arrived with oodles of time to spare with ample chance to relax in the car park at the Old White Hart before the club organisers arrived.
We were pleased to say 'hello' to the excellent sound technician team and help them in with some gear. Held in a large room above a busy pub, this is a very professionally run folk club and, as we were to find out, has good sound quality as one of its major strength. Nothing seemed too much trouble on the technical side and the sound check was done very efficiently indeed.
Albeit this was our first visit to the Great kNight club, we had met committee member Kevin T Ward a couple of years earlier at a gig when we were supporting Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts at Rugby Roots concert. Kevin, who was acting as compere for the night, has a compendious knowledge of French and Breton music and it was great to catch up with all his news on that front and with respect to the bands he is currently playing with.
We were at Great kNight to support Bob Fox and although not very well, Bob gave a fine performance combining many of his classics and songs from War Horse, with songs from his native North East.
Our own support slot of thirty minutes went down very well and at both the break and the end of the show, we received some excellent feedback from audience and club committee members alike.
We would like to thank Kevin for his kind words both when introducing us and at the end of the show. Likewise, many thanks to Andrew and his fellow committee members for the original invitation to visit the club and, finally, thanks to Richard and his partner for the quality sound production throughout the night. We very much hope we can return to Great kNight in 2014 to show its welcoming members a little bit more of what we do.
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