old news3rd January 2007The Ben Waters Band played at the Upwey & Broadwey Memorial Hall on Friday 24th November. The gig was sold out weeks beforehand, and great fun was had by all. This was followed by a return to The Concord Club, Eastleigh, near Southampton on Wednesday 29th and a visit to The Minerva Theatre, Chichester, West Sussex on Friday 1st December. All of these gigs gave the band an opportunity to air the new songs written by Ben and Richard Hymas. The Ben band returned to Mr Kyps, in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset on Sunday 17th December for this excellent venue’s Christmas party. It was a fantastic concert, made all the better by a guest appearance from Ed Deane, a truly wonderful guitarist. Ed also joined us for the band’s recording at Maida Vale studios in London for Paul Jones’ BBC Radio 2 show. The show goes out on January 25th at 7.30pm – I’d love to hear what you think of it. We had our own Ben Waters Band Christmas party at Beaminster Town Hall in Dorset on January 29th. Ben, Ady, Clive and myself were joined by Clive’s brother Ray on trombone and Pete Bettle on baritone sax. The place was mobbed and, after a slightly dodgy start due to technical problems, we had a riot. Little Dixie played at the Ropemakers in Bridport on Saturday 30th December, and Mutter Slater, Ady, Chris Rickard and myself saw out 2006 at the Three Horseshoes in Burton Bradstock. Two blinding gigs to see out an amazing year. It was a pretty remarkable year for all sorts of reasons. It started on a balcony at Somerset House in London with Billy Bragg and the Rosetta Life band, playing to an estimated 10 million viewers. That band also went out ‘live’ (i.e. miming and half-cut) on RTE television in Ireland . There were hugely successful fundraising gigs at the Weysia and John Spencer gigs, and we had trips to Germany, Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Holland and Finland (three times) with the Ben Waters Band. We’ve also begun recordings for a new CD with Ben that we’re all pretty excited about. Here’s to 2007! Chris Lonergan Chris Lonergan |
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