The climax was a gig in Reading with my “schoolboy band”, the core of the band being 3 of us who were at Barnsley Grammar School together in the 1960s. By coincidence I watched “8 days a week” on the return flight which was another way of reliving that startling decade. I did a short solo set at the beginning of the evening which went down really well. Great to be performing again.
I had spent a few days staying in Reading with my old friends Jo & Ian, practising during the days, talking in the evenings. I got to walk around the neighbourhood a bit more than I have before and enjoyed the red brick architecture with decorative banding. Clearly it is influenced by the nearby Reading School by Alfred Waterhouse, as well as local vernacular tradition. I…