The Cold Comfort Gig Hypothesis

Last night I did a gig at the Northern Lights.

Arrived just before 7.50 pm and had grilled mackerel for my dinner. The place was fairly quiet most of the evening , apart from one group who played Boggle. Then after a while as it approached eleven it became packed out, and then subsided to a quiescent nadir about an hour and a half later, to the extent that I finished the set early with some slow numbers with just one couple left alone upstairs.

The very cold weather may have been a factor in the paucity of customers, and the fact that there is a lot of competing functions in the city, added to the prognosis. Perhaps my original Saturday date would have been better. Well, that is my hypothesis for what it is worth. C'est la vie!

Then, rather having to wait for the late night bus in the freezing cold at a bus stop, I decided to hit a warm Subway and had a spicy Italian six inch Sub. I read my Superstring paperback in the establishment until the time the bus was due to arrive in North Street. Got back to Seaford 4 am and slept till 11 am this morning. It was a truly comfortable warm sleep.

Anyway , the playlist will follow in a separate blog entry and there will be mp3 downloads at some point.

Brighton Brillo 6 - "Who Put The Funk" Northern Lights 10 Feb 2012

As promised here is the Playlist from the gig last night at the Northern Lights.

In some ways, the lack of punters allowed me to play a divergent set that covered most musical genres, except drum n' bass or hip hop.


Congress Alley – Congress Alley
Eddie Fisher – Jeremiah Pucket
Darkness of Evil – Laid Back Funk
Bull Moose Jackson – Big Ten Inch
Iceberg Slim – Broadway Sam
Steve Parks – Still Thinking Of You
America – Ventura Highway
Fairport Conversion – Autopsy
Donovan – Get Thy Bearings
Reuben Wilson – Cisko Kid
Compaore Issouf – Dambakale
Bernie Maupin – It Remains To Be Seen
Yasuko Agawa – L A Nights
Keni Burke – Risin' To The Top
Miami – Kill That Roach
The Latin Brothers – Dulzura En Sol
Willie Bobo – Evil Ways
The Lebron Brothers – Bongo Loco
Blue Magic – look Me Up
Yarbrough & Peoples – Don't Stop The Music
The Guess Who – Undun
Screamin' Jay Hawkins – Alligator Wine
Blind Willie McTell – I Keep On Drinkin'
John Lee Hooker – Whiskey and Women
Gil Scott Heron – The Bottle
Rita Marley – One Draw
Fela Kuti and Africa 70 – Gentleman
Fela Kuti and Africa 70 – Lady
Ray Baretto – Midnight Boogaloo
Dennis Coffey – Getting It On
Peter King – Ajo
Detroit Spinners – It's A Shame
Al Wilson – The Snake
Thelma Houston – Baby Mine
Pointer Sisters – Send Him Back
The Originals – Suspicion
Billy Butler – The Right Track
Robert Parker – Barefootin'
Tamiko Jones – Pearl
Sue Lynne – Don't Pity Me
Jackie Wilson – Just be Sincere
Patrice Holoway – Stolen Hours
Shirley Ellis – Soul Time
Herb Ward – Honest To Goodness
Bishop Norman Williams – Hip Funk
Della Reese – Compared To What
James Brown – (Get Up I Feel Like Being) A Sex Machine
Oneness Of Juju – African Rhythms
Nico Gomez – Rio
Tower Of Power – What Is Hip?
Ann Sexton – You've Been Gone Too Long
Gene Chandler – There Was A Time
Nino Rossi – Suspiria
Booker T and The MG's – Melting Pot
Black Monday – Ride Your Bike
Atomic Rooster – Devil's Answer
Cliff Nobles & Co – The Horse
Jacqeline Taleb – 7 Heores Du Matin
Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
Nitin Sawhney – Hope
Pentangle – A Woman Like You
Triste Janero – In The Garden
Eloise Laws – Love Factory
Act One – Tom The Peeper
Aretha Franklin – Eleanor Rigby
Mike Berry – Just Thought I'd Phone
Roy Ayers – Coffy Is The Colour
Della Reese – It Was A Very Good Year
Junior Parker – Taxman
Bobby Caldwell – What You Won't Do For Love
Atlantic Starr – Silver Shadow
Isaac Hayes – Never Can Say Goodbye
Major Harris – Love Won't Let Me Wait