It’s almost right…plus The Critical at The Cavendish Arms – 4 May 2009

I went to a gig recently with the most unintentionally funny moment ever. You probably had to be there to get it, but it was at the Bedford in April when a singer* introduced a song, played the intro and sang the opening of an entirely different one by mistake. Singer jokes about stopping writing songs in the same key with the same chords. Second attempt and he blanks altogether and

Alistair Griffin at the Cobden Club, London – 14 December 2008

Sunday saw my first visit to the Cobden Club in London to listen to Alistair Griffin. I’d not been before being rather a little put off by the venue and their guest list policy, but really I shouldn’t have been as anyone can get themselves on the list and it was a nice, friendly, ordinary music venue, not like it sounded.

I trekked from the tube station, map in hand and eventually stumbled across the club languishing in

Alistair Griffin at The Bedford, plus Aaron Short, Jacob Brass – 21 October 2008

I’d not been to the Bedford before and wasn’t sure whether to go to this gig so tossed a coin, and would you believe it, it landed right smack bang on the edge…  As I’d heard my favourite interpretation of a Griffin song called Something’s Going On over their webcam stream once, I thought I’d give it a go. Would it be band or acoustic though, as