Club Night - 24th September 2026

Another week passes by and we get ready to come together once more to celebrate our collective love of music. I think that this is the thing that really brings the club together. Over the next week or two we will have a visitor, who is staying in the area for a short time. I know we will make him welcome as we do for anyone who comes to our door.

We do have a couple of things that we will also need to do for some upcoming gigs, but as ever we will try to maintain a balance with that and ensure that we have plenty of songs to just play.

The gig rehearsal is mainly looking at the intros and making sure that we get started off on the right foot as it were. We are hitting the first notes clearly and we are at a good tempo. I know I can struggle with this as well. We also have to decide what we are doing for the mini-gig on the 8th October. We will discuss that at the start of the evening.

I was trying to come up with a list of songs, but could not settle on a theme. The themes just tend to give me words or thoughts to look for in our library. But sometimes it is also a lucky dip. The song list below is a full set list for the Morrisons gig, but there will be others for the first half. I have left them in there, more to remind me than anything else.

Song List

• Daydream

• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

• Budapest

• Wild Mountain Thyme

• The Welly Boot Song

• Eight Days a Week

• This Land Is Your Land

• Sweet Caroline

• Time In A Bottle

• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

• The Carnival is Over

• Mull of Kintyre

• I'm a believer

• Ruby Tuesday

• Scarborough fair

• All my loving (in C)

• Singing the blues

• Dedicated follower of fashion

• Sit down

• Bad Moon Rising

• Country roads ( P4P)

• Mustang Sally

• Wild River

• All I have to do is dream

• Sunny Afternoon (the taxman …..)

• San Francisco bay blues

So, we will not rehearse all the songs in italics, so we will need more suggestions from the floor.

Upcoming Gigs

Here is the list of gigs that we currently have in our schedule.

Saturday 3rd October - Morrisons

Morrisons entrance. Again, this is at Morrisons but in aid of our chosen charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance. We are suggesting two slots, between the times of 11 and 1. There is the cafe we can go to for a coffee break! 

Thursday 8th October @7:45pm (TBC)

The Town Hall will be available from 3pm on the day and we're welcome to come and drop off the music and stands then if that helps? We would have a little rehearsal in the club and then go to the hall. Then we would head back to finish our night.

Saturday 31st October @3pm

Gargrave Beer Festival. This was great fun last year and I am sure it will be again this time. We were also given some beer tokens to sample the offerings as well!

Wednesday 9th December Threshfield WI

Still awaiting final details, but it is an evening performance.

Sunday 13th December - Holy Trinity Church

This will be a daytime gig. More details to come.

The Xmas song list is out now. Hopefully people have picked up a copy. I know that some people may only want to play xmas songs only in December but that is just not what needs to happen. We want to entertain as much as possible. The best way to avoid practice time at the club, is to practice at home so that we only need to play a song once or twice and we are ready. We will need to practice them in November. Possibly even October if there is a particular song we want to include, but do not have gig ready.

We are also asking that you think about what could be in the "Gig Book" for next year. What was missing from this year? Is there a new song that we really should work on and add to it? As stated in the club last week, try to create a list and then email it in. That way we can have a more anonymous selection.

Well, I hope that is everything. I look forward to seeing you all at the club this week.

Gordon