Classical Guitar and bananas in Otley and Halifax

The acoustic at Otley Courthouse Theatre is just right. It actually was a courthouse and there is a

dressing room, Square Chapel Theatre

sweet spot on stage which is exactly where the judge used to sit. Glen, my expert technician, showed me and it was extraordinary - if I moved my chair a few inches back  the difference was amazing. There were some nice photos done of me playing during the concert (and also of me pretending to be locked up - playing my guitar in one of the police cells, three of which have been preserved upstairs).
In Halifax the Square Chapel is very impressive in size and has a lofty wide space flooded with light from enormous windows. It's a beautiful building and one of the only square chapels ever built. I needed my amp in there but I didn't turn it up to 11. The sound was really warm and just a bit of amplification was all it needed. Great audiences in both venues and lovely house managers and teams of stewards and technicians. I wish I still had the photos. This phone picture of me tuning up just before going on is the only one I've got though because the camera bag was nicked out of the car in literally one minute - the minute before we went back out to the car to get it after we'd brought most of the stuff in. They bashed the passenger window in and took the camera and my bananas.

We had been going to stay the night after the gig and were planning to get a curry first at Ziggy's Spice House, which is the best Indian restaurant in Halifax apparently. But with no passenger window and only the car to keep the stuff in we had to drive home instead. As there were no bananas to sustain us we had to eat Big Macs and chips and wrap our heads up to combat the very blustery draught. Never mind - there's always next year. And we'd had a superb curry in Red Pepper - a lovely place in Otley, so we'll live.