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Played our gig in Chalfont on Friday night and had a fairly full house. It went very well and the 'take' for the charity (PACE) was impressive and exceeded last years.
For our Blues Brothers medley the whole training band (25 in all) sported Blues Brothers hats and shades.
That's me above - not a shot from the gig but a 'studio shot' for promotional purposes !!!
The rhythym section started the medley with just the opening bars of 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love' as the rest of the band shimmied in and took their places, with the crowd clapping in time.
We also had audience participation with competing sections clapping to the latin rhythm of the 'Peanut Vendor' .
All in all a great fun filled evening - LOVED IT !!!!!!!!!!
I would like to wish anyone reading this blog a very happy Christmas and a bright and prosperous New Year .
Happy Christmas, Dad.
Posted by: Paul H. Colman | 12/20/2007 at 08:36 PM
Et tu Paulo, looking forward to seeing you on the day.
Posted by: Harry C | 12/20/2007 at 08:57 PM
Happy All Those Things Harry.
And Paul.
I got a tie for Christmas. A really horrible one.
Posted by: Tomp | 12/28/2007 at 10:18 AM
Hello Tom - didn't recognise you there for a minute. What's happened to TomLR ??
Posted by: Harry C | 12/30/2007 at 11:18 AM
This year it's about being mysterious, Harry.
Posted by: Tom) | 01/03/2008 at 08:59 PM
I understand Tom - happy New Year.
Posted by: Harry C | 01/04/2008 at 12:35 PM
Whilst on the subject of being mysterious...what's going on with your son ?
Posted by: Tom. | 01/08/2008 at 09:55 PM
It'a mystery to me too at the moment Tom. I'm sad that he has stopped blogging and hope to see him return to it soon.
Posted by: Harry C | 01/09/2008 at 04:45 PM
I have a theory he's blogging in secret - to a secret club.
If not - can we steal his blog ?
Posted by: Tom | 01/13/2008 at 09:54 PM
I've tried getting into the blog Tom but he has password protected it.We need to learn how to hack and considering we can't embed videos I'm not hopeful.
Posted by: Harry C | 01/13/2008 at 11:12 PM
Embed videos ? We can't even embed PHOTOS properly !
But I thought that we'd decided that that's how we like it.
I reckon his secret club is all his marketing mates. We don't qualify.
Posted by: Tom. | 01/14/2008 at 12:17 PM
You could be right Tom - I know nothing of marketing.
BTW - I got a really nice digital camera for Christmas so I intend to resume my studies of how best to embed photos in tyepad and get the text to behave itself as directed.
Watch this space !!
Posted by: Harry C | 01/17/2008 at 09:32 PM
Harry - I must admit that I have had extensive coaching in an e.mail from Ben the (designery one) and can tell you how to do it - if, that is - you are prepared to hand over your innocence....
Posted by: Tom | 01/29/2008 at 09:57 PM
Thanks Tom - lead on!!!!!!!!
Posted by: HarryC | 01/30/2008 at 11:30 AM
OK - here's the text from Ben....
Follow these instructions: When you add a picture to a blog post in Typepad underneath where it says '1. Choose an image' there is a box that says '2. Set image options'. By default that is set to 'Use default settings'. Click on 'Use custom settings'. You are presented with several options. To get the text to flow nicely under your pictures you have two options. EITHER Uncheck the 'Wrap Text' tick box. This will keep your pictures the same size as they are currently. OR Set the 'Create Thumbnail' width to be 500 pixels. This will make your pictures quite a bit bigger as currently they're set to be 350 pixels big. Both of them will cause the text to flow sweetly underneath. Try it.
...then he went on to tell me how much he wanted me, but I editted that bit out.
Just a word of warning - in the 'Preview' mode it still looks as if it doesn't work - but trust the force, Harry.
Posted by: Tom | 02/01/2008 at 09:27 AM