Ruby Friday

An absolutely fantastic gig at Ruby Lounge on Friday, special thanks for the dancing and for buying CDs, thanks to The Transmitters and extra thanks to The Chords UK for playing and making it such a great night. And also thanks to Alan May of 6Towns Radio's 'Glory Boys' show and Paul Lomax for their photographs.  
All ace-ness apart from the sound engineer falling off the stage and twisting his ankle before we started; hope its better Chris! Massively appreciated that you kept going through the pain
Set List:

Day In Day Out
Seen It All Before
Checkered Land
Checkpoint Charlie
I Can't Say
Maid Of The Grey
Love
Girl On The Roof
Sit By The River
Shut All The Clubs
There's No One There

 Chris Pope and The Chords UK

The Transmitters

Femme Fatal

Saturday's 'What's The Alternative ?...' gig with Nina Gerstenberger was tremendous, big thanks to all of you that turned out to see and to watch her film that we screened between sets. Regulars know we like a collaboration and we played Femme Fatal with Nina taking the Nico role but doing it in her own style. This is exactly what live music is about. Unique and ephemeral passing moments.
Set List:
Checkpoint Charlie

I Can't Say
Shut All The Clubs
Girl On The Roof
Day In Day Out
Little Miss Restless
Maid Of The Grey
Seen It All Before
Sit By The River
Femme Fatal
There's No One there

Three sets in 15 hours

Thank you to Doncaster for dancing and getting what we we're doing on our first visit there - you were great, Scootfest is always a blast and was even bigger this year and we did something we haven't done for three years, we played a cover... Next its a 'home' gig at Kings Arms Salford with Nina Gerstenberger  and then with Chords UK at Ruby Lounge Manchester.

Doncaster setlist:

Glide On By
The War-game
Checkered Land
I See You Everywhere That I Go
Checkpoint Charlie
Substitute
Love
Seen It All Before
Sit By The River

and
the 2nd set:

I Can't Say
Chalk Circle
Only Everything
Girl On The Roof
Maid Of The Grey
Day In Day Out
Overlooked
Femme Fatal
Shut All The Clubs
Little Miss Restless
There's No One There
Uhrwerk

back home at 03:30 then out again to get to an 11:00am soundcheck at Haslingden... we did think about driving straight there.
There were cool sets from 5ft Fez and The Transmitters too

Scootfest setlist:
I Can't Say
Checkered Land
Chalk Circle
Checkpoint Charlie
Girl On The Roof
Maid Of The Grey
Shut All The Clubs
Day In Day Out
Love
Substitute
Little Miss Resltless
There's No One There

Elizabeth Gaskell photo-shoot

We had a photo-shoot at Elizabeth Gaskell's House - one of Manchester's hidden gems,

In the drawing room, having a cup of tea in 1860. This is the room where apparently Charlotte Bronte's overwhelming shyness made her hide behind the curtains to avoid a visitor while she was staying with the Gaskell's.
It is exactly the kind of room where its tempting to climb through the looking-glass and see what we found on the other side but we resisted.
Huge thanks to EGH for making us welcome.