Not Bad For A Girl: Mulled Wine in Munich!

By Katie Marie, on Thursday, March 18, 2010

I am *seriously* loving this sunshiney stuff….not only has it meant I’ve been able to play my guitar outside but I’ve also been out Kayaking on the river Dart for the first time this year! Woohoo!

Despite having an ‘orrible cold I had a really good fun weekend of gigs, thanks very much if you came along to either (or both!) and hope you had as much fun as well did.

So kicking off my weekend was a trip to the lovely Blue Walnut Cafe in Torquay to do some percussiony bits and bassy stuff for local singer/songwriter Nicky Swann. It’s been a little while since I’ve played the Blue Walnut so it was lovely to be back!

Nicky and I were also joined by Tim the fiddle man and who kindly stepped in at very short notice. This was our first time playing together and thankfully we all seemed to make a pretty good sound between us!

Thanks to Nicky’s hard work promoting the gig lots of peeps turned out which made the evening oodles betterer. We also had a support act on before us in the form of fellow Totnes person Keith Jones who did a grand job!

Totnes performer Keith Jones

Katie Marie

Big thankies to Giles for snapping away with his snazzy new camera and proving these pics!

So the following night (Sunday) I was off to Mama Stone’s to do an acoustical gig with Dan Crisp. I was very excited indeed, not only that this would be the first Mr Dan gig of 2010, but I’d also been promised the use of the in-house Cajon. But when we got there nobody could find the bloomin thing!! Grrr! But armed with a Conga drum and various shaky things I managed to have lots of fun non-the-less… here’s another iPhone Youtube vid (so expect lots of dodgy sound!)

This Sunday (March 21) Dan and I will be at Mama Stone’s again, but this time around we’ll be joined by the lovely Alan Bray on bass for a big band sound (…that is a larger sound, not that we’ve started playing swing music or anything crazy…) Looking forward to it!

This week I’ve got loads of bits and bobs to keep me out of trouble and with my trip to Germany not too far away now I’ll be spending most of this week planning and organising various things such as merch and set lists. I’ve got four gigs lined up and this time I’ll be visiting Munich for the very first time – which means I’ll finally be able to utilise that very important phrase I learnt in my German book about drinking Mulled Wine in Munich – horrah!

Well that’s all folks, hope you have a bloomin marvelous week and I’ll see you next time!