Last week Sally and I went to a concert featuring Show of Hands along with Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston at Norden Farm in Maidenhead.
It was a great evening. Lots of humour as well as great music.
Miranda and Rex opened the evening. Here’s one of their songs:
Steve Knightley opened the Show of Hands part of the evening with Widecome Fair.
Steve wandered on to an empty, darkened, stage singing the song as a solo.
He told a tale of singing this at the Albert Hall in London. The plan was to enter from the back of the hall. However the man guarding the door wouldn’t let Steve back in. He said that he wasn’t allowed in until there was a sound of applause. “It’ll be a long night then” said Steve. However, on pointing himself out on a poster advertising the evening the door guard was persuaded that he could relax the rules this once. And thus the show went on.
One of the more atmospheric pieces of music during the evening was Katrina, which relates to the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005. Haunting. Moving.
If you get a chance to see them then go along. You won’t be disappointed.
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