Skanking the Hootananny
Tuesday nights in early January are probably not the best nights for attracting a crowd. Add in heavy rain, and we were half expecting to be playing to an empty pub.
It was good therefore to see not just a pretty fair attendance but a full dance floor last night.
We like the Hootananny as it has a good stage and excellent sound, particularly in the hands of our last night’s engineer Geoff, who has mixed us before.
We also got the chance to play two full sets. And this is what we played:
| Chinatown | Dr Who |
| Guns Of Navarone | Work Song |
| Latin Goes Ska | Johnny Too Bad |
| Mood For Love | Paranoid |
| You’re Wondering Now | Pata Pata |
| Harder They Come | 10 Out Of 10 |
| Alley Cat Ska | 99 Red Balloons |
| Man In The Street | Tainted Love |
| Mambo Number 5 | Rudy A Message To You |
| Tide Is High | My Boy Lollipop |
| Enola Gay | Gangsters |
| Price Tag |
It went down well, and we hope to be asked back. Promoter Cecil Reuben knows his ska, and liked what we played.
We didn’t take any pictures but is anyone in the audience did we’d love to see them.