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When will this weekend ever stop, well it started at about seven o’clock on the Friday evening and there is still no sign of the end, well not yet.

It’s hard to remember where I’ve been, and who with to see which band. Friday was the Cockpit, Otherside were headlining, that was a good show. Then across town to see Motus play at the Roscoe, now that will take some beating.

Then Saturday, was there a Saturday, oh shhhhit somebody stole my Saturday, I can’t remember !

Sunday I was just putting my plans into action when one text message changed everything, I held my breath and counted to ten and changed to plan B.

Now it was important to get to the New Roscoe early so I could have a photoshoot with the band after they had sound checked, because they had now replaced Matt Black with a young delicate white with a hint of pink, there new guitarist Martin. At just twenty three, that makes him half the age of the Godfather Caley, but his talents outweigh his youth. A fine young guitarist who will go on to bigger things in the future. I hope this guitarist lasts longer than the last seventeen that Caley and Taylor have gone through in the last three years or so. Joking apart Martin should relish his time and take this opportunity to get the experience of working with two old pros.

As usual the Voodoos were loud but not quite as painful as last time I saw them with Matt Black, but I still had to use semaphore to get a round of drinks in at the bar. They played solid rock with Caley’s voice as powerful as ever. Jon Taylor managed to bust his kick drum skin in the very first number, so after a couple more songs they took a break while the skin was replaced. Returning to the stage a few minutes later to a rapturous applause and straight into their Alex Harvey, The Who, and Kinks covers just to name a few, their new guitarist Martin had been well rehearsed. He may have walked on stage for his first gig with the Voodoos looking a little fresh faced but he earned the right to walk off like a vintage rocker.

After the show the audience and some of my close friends and music colleagues were left buzzing with yet another great blast back into the sixties and seventies, the era from whence rock was born.

Look after Martin he’s a good ’un.

Steve.

PS. After the show three girls came up to me and asked if I would take their photographs, I forgot to take their telephone numbers, whoops !

An English rose, a Spannish Rose and a French rose.

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