Tuesday Night - The Blue Room - Ipswich

We started out the day (Tuesday) driving to the East Anglian town of Ipswich to do a BBC radio show with Steven Foster. We played a couple of songs live, talked for a bit and then he played some cuts from the CD’s. We had several people come to the show that night who had heard the radio show – so it was definitely worth doing. Evidently you can hear the interview on the web for the next week or so.
The website is www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk We also did an interview with John Row and that interview will be aired on April 2nd. I think you’ll be able to hear that show on the web at some point at www.johnrow.com


We played last night in Ipswich at a great old pub call McGinty’s Blue Room. The pub was originally named the Halbert Inn and dates back to the mid 15th century. It was originally the entrance to the village of Ipswich. It is also considered to be the most haunted house in the town and is on a regular ghost watching tour.

We had a great night, enthusiastic crowd and decent CD sales. The best part of the night however was hanging out afer the show with the owners Veronica and Dave and several of their friends. We drank “Red Breast” whiskey and sang songs into the wee hours of the morning. We repeated songs from our show that they wanted to hear and covered a ton of old 70’s era songs – a fun night.

We slept in the rooms above the bar. Robert slept in the room said to be the most haunted, where ghosts are known to pull the sheets off the bed on a regular basis. He reported no such activity however. I slept in a room known for having a ghost stand in the corner and watch you – no such luck for me either. The only “occurrence” I had was early the next morning walking past the door leading up to the venue room. The door was locked, but I distinctly heard footsteps going up the stairs on the other side of the door– eerie in a cool way.

We’re off early this morning for a long 8 hour drive to the Isle of Bute in Scotland. We will catch a ferry over to the Hotel Victoria for our gig tonight.