Now it is the day after and I've had some time to reflect on my experiences of my first real gig. So what went well? Clearly many of the songs we had were right and people did join in. We even had an encore - we didn't have another number to play so we replayed the best song - House of the Rising Sun. What didn't go so well? Backing tracks - we were out on a couple of them - in fact one of them were out by such a way that I muted the backing track part way through. I forgot to bring up the vocal MIC for the first track - oops.

What was I pleased with? My performance was good, confident and mainly all together. I had a few slip ups but I heard the others making some slips as well. My best parts? The solos in Summertime and my party piece (The Loner) - not because I did it perfectly - because I didn't - but I managed to continue with confidence and pick it up - people didn't notice or realise. By the time I got to the second half I was enjoying myself - that was a major goal.

You can see the photos of the event at this album