As part of the Stony Live Festival 10th Anniversary, we played at the Oak Room in the Cock Hotel, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire. This room is normally used a the Song Loft Folk Club as as such is an intimate venue in which a PA system is not strictly necessary. This then was a genuinely “unplugged” (apart from Janet’s keyboard) performance. Apart from a warm up gig at Bletchley Bandstand on 19th May, this was the first major length Higher Plane gig since last July. The room was almost sold out with a good attendance by enthusiastic people from St Lawrence’s and from work. As normal we mixed mellow, serious songs with more light hearted fun ones, my turns on kazoo causing particular amusement. Three new songs were played including Busking on the Underground. Between sets, Lee Michalke and then Stephen Tucker played some numbers. The Higher Plane sets were:
Set 1
Down by the River
I am a Pilgrim
Let Me Know
All I have to do is Dream (new)
Seagull
Midnight Songs
Brown Eyed Girl (new)
Feeling Good, Feeling Fine
Light to my Path
World of Our Own
2nd set
So Good to Me
Hey good Lookin’
Busking on the Underground (new)
A Higher Plane
Leaving this Town
Urban Spaceman
Jambalya
Those were the Days
Work to Do
My Old Man’s a Dustman (Encore….I’m trying to drop this but they insisted)
Higher Plane are
Mike Squire: 6 and 12 String guitars/Vocals/Harmonica/Kazoo
Janet Edsall: Vocals/Flute/Keyboard
Tags: Acoustic music, Cock Hotel, Flute, Folk music, Gig Reports, Gigs, Guitar and Flute, Harmony singing, Higher Plane, Mike Squire singer/songwriter, Music Reviews, Stony Live, Stony Stratford
