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Club in the pub with the Phatt
B’Stards Well before we
start, may I invite you all to my birthday bash next Sunday at the FaB Club, bring any food you
want (EVEN sausage rolls)… First
up are Nora and Mick, starting
with two sing-a-long songs, “The
Hopping Song”, all together now with a Ti I O, Ti I E I O. Next comes a
70’s number “Modern Barley Blues”, of course I am not old
enough to remember this, but sway away everyone. A great start for the afternoon! Secondly
Sally is up, a song for her
two sons, called “Mother Love”. What a lovely voice, singing with
passion about her sons becoming men.
Next comes “Be a Man”, faster this one, full of
aggression. Just remember to take Sally as she comes and I am glad that we
will. Here
comes Ben’s first
time on stage at the FaB club, a young leopard cub going solo. With some nifty guitar plucking,
singing “1952 Vincent Black lightning” and for a first time not
that nervous, well done young man! Then
along comes his brother James,
taking Ben’s place by playing “All Along The Watch
Tower”. He was helped along
by the audience, as again this was his first time up in front of us all, he
done well and made us proud! Taking
his place on the stage, an old favourite Alan
(sorry about the old that was Nora).
Plucking away like the old pro he is, testing his guitar, went
straight into a ditty (without his guitar) about “Leave the Plumbing to
Plumbers”, which got giggles all round, which reminds me to go to the
ladies now!!!! This was followed
by a 1964 biking song, by a singer called Twinkle and is called
“Terry” (a boyfriend who crashed his bike), toe tapping abounds. Now for the main
Act today the Phatt
B’Stards… Geoff Higginsbottom
and George Wilson aka Fredo and Juan Phatt-B’Stards they are not
thin but they are legitimate, taking to the stage and we got some stripping
to boot, man’s flesh on show! “Couldn’t Have Come at a
Better Time”, is the first of many brilliant songs, fast and furious,
sends shivers down your spine.
These two are jokers of the pack and wear matching T-Shirts. Then “The World Turned Upside
Down”, after a bit of banter about a stuck thong, they got stuck in to
learning some French (say no more) then the song another fast number, about
Freemen coming to work not being slaves anymore in the year 1649. Another song called “Angel of
Mercy followed”, guitar plucking a plenty, this is a lovely song which
needs a lot of swaying of the audience.
The B’Stards are brilliant and anyone who couldn’t get
here missed a wonderful afternoon with the FaB club Family. Moving on to “Blackleg
Miner”, which is a folk song from “Beeswing”
by Richard Thompson follows on; no I am not in love nor married though this
song makes me want to be. A favourite of mine next, House of the
Rising Sun”, bit of the blues the only 5 chords they can play, also
don’t forget to ask the questions? “Who’s a prat?”
“I’m one!!!” “Where you going?” “I am
going back to Theme
tune comes now “We Ate All the pies”, pointing of fat or obese
people allowed, mainly at the stage.
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* Bill followed on,
singing with his usual vigour “the Goodbye Song”, then asking the
audience to sing along with “Sexual Repression”, another saucy
one from Bill. A
new man to the Fab Club, Mark,
a FAB Club virgin, singing “Come Together”, his first time and he
said he was nervous, you wouldn’t know it playing brilliantly. Then we all had to Get our
Motor’s reviving and head out onto the highway, may we be blessed with
seeing another performance. Next
came Cathy and Joe, with a
Buddy Holly Song, “Oh Boy”, toe tapping from the audience and
singing along was called for.
Cathy is getting more confident, as the weeks go along and I hope she
does a solo soon. Then Joe on his
lonesome. Dedicating it to the Phatt B’Stards, called “Big Fat
Sexy Man”, our favourite… Now
for you, culture vultures, Liz
and her poems. A sad one to start
off with, “A
Thousand Things to See Before You Die”, brings the mood lower. One with which we should know
“Oh My! Haven’t they Changed”, about the reunions you never
even went to… Something
completely different now, John
Stafford, who normally doesn’t do it standing up? After a false
start, he begins “Worried Man”, will he make it to the end,
don’t know if I will as my battery is going flat. Be
Afraid, very afraid now: here comes Tone
Def Leopard, Sue on the Bongo’s with a hit from the
1970’s “Banks of the Ohio”, it’s difficult to know
which one is suffering more for their art!!! Well
Trevor is suffering in the next song as he desperately needs the bathroom
which is occupied by a teenager! All this, sang to the tune of “the
lion sleeps tonight”… oh dear!... Well, the whole audience is
singing along!... Time
to see our 2 lovely B’Stards back on stage for a rousing second half
full of our favourite tunes… Bob Marley gets to visit Macclesfield, and
Dire Strait gets a new life! Fantastic! Even Mick is dancing! We want more so
we get and encore! After
that we have to wait for next week and my birthday party to find out who will
be taking the stage at the FaB Club! Sonia Martin Like
Sonia, if you want to write a review for FaB Club, email me! .
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