Cripps barn, 26 June (1 of 2)

The party goers GET DOWN!

Er Rob, what are the chords for The Birdie Song?

The international sign for "do you want a beer"

Well it was a Friday gig, which we don't do many of these days, and the evening was fine and dry. We've played the venue a few times and it's always great. We had a nightmare because we forgot the PA leads so one of us had to dash off and get them - DUH! The evening went down well and the groom sang a couple of tunes with us - the crowd loved it. It was cheese and crackers at dawn and we stood around the fire outside to chill out before the drive home. Great night. One down, one to go.

Wedding, Powderham Castle, Exeter, Devon

The band changing rooms

SKAMP tuck into supper

Where's the band?

Rob meets the happy couple

Well we finally made it to Devon after contending with 3 traffic jams and a huge detour because the M5 was shut. It was a beautiful day and luckily the van had air-con. With minutes to spare, we setup, drank lemonade (rock and roll), met the bride and groom and sped off to our hotel. We had a lovely supper, Rob had 'cocktail of the week', then we zoomed back to the venue at the castle http://www.powderham.co.uk/. It turned out to be a short one as time ran out. We all enjoyed it though and went back to the hotel for a Skamp party. That's as much as I can remember....

Sally & Chris First Dance Rehearsal

We are now getting started on Can't Take My Eyes of You......Crikey there's lots of chords in that one!!!! but starting to sound good after the 20th time we ran through it , well done guys ! Should be pucker for Sally and Chris' big day on the 26th June at Cripps Barn.

Skamp on Tour at Clearwell Castle.

The most interesting gig ever

Well what an interesting action packed gig we had on Saturday at Flagstone Fm in Condicote. Just for the record we had free beer, tennis, snooker, cats (x3), cheesecake, bails of hay, foxes mints in the porta-loo, cold wind and a crowd that wouldn't let us stop playing. Thanks to Heidi and Adam!

Here's Rob walking into our dressing room.

This is cat no. 1

SKAMP with cat no. 1. Nice aerial Rob!

Supper... yum!

Adam + beer = broken wall

Some of SKAMP playing tennis.

Heidi and Adam dance around a giant cymbal.

Quick rehearsal

As we were short on time and the main gear was in our band lockup, we did a practice in full acoustic mode. This is us having a run through of 'In your light' by John Allen that we played at Clearwell Castle.

I can see "Clearwell" now the gig is gone....

See what I did there? Pic shows the start of last night's fantastic gig at Clearwell Castle in the beautiful Forest of Dean. It looks like everyone is ballroom dancing but they're not! This is at the start of the gig when we did a few laid-back tracks to warm up the crowd.

Here's the outside of the castle
















This was the amazing disco booth (looked better with the lights running)
















The crowd were great and didn't stop dancing from 8 til midnight!! We had a brilliant night. One of the best gigs in a long time. For those of you that also like your rock trivia, the room we were playing in was once a recording studio and rehearsal space where bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath used to come to for inspiration. So that's why we rocked!