gig done and dusted - anxiety over

horsemouth thanks martin (for putting them on once again and for playing), nick doyne-ditmas for playing (and for playing bass of the devil which did really brought something new to it). and waterintobeer of course.

the setlist was almost entirely as predicted - satan (gospel blues), the werewolf (michael hurley), the devil, worldes blisse, when the faun met alice (musicians of bremen - you may know these from horsemouth’s solo set last time), painbirds (mark linkous - sparklehorse) he played last time also. they revived sad and lonely and dorothy.  new to the set this time a new version of blue crystal fire (robbie basho) and katie cruel (trad. karen dalton), lastly they took a crack at keith hudson’s turn your heater on.

it was a small crowd (nick’s friends, zoe, and horsemouth’s friends (darsavini, johncunningman, mira), two tourists anxious to get away up the hill to see the fireworks (but who stayed for satan and the werewolf).

after the gig horsemouth and howard and company sat and drank and chatted, _____ ankles(?) a youngsters group of slightly more ravey high energy B-52s played on the stereo. sadly darsavini and co had missed nick’s set, martin’s set had included a song about the tasmanian tiger (funnily enough fahey had renamed his track lion as the tasmanian tiger for his live in tasmania record) - having written a song about a marsupial predator horsemouth challenged martin to write a song about a monotreme. 

darsavini suggested a possible wetherspoons but horsemouth and howard threw themselves out of the door and onto the train - howard got off at shadwell, horsemouth took the easy (and more expensive) route up through zone 1. falafel wrap and home to bed.

now that the gig is over horsemouth can stop being anxious. the sun is shining. he’s had his coffee. in a minute a shower.