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Monday, 4 February 2019
Would you pay a quid to listen to Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and/or Cream?
I am always telling, particularly my southerner compatriots, that (loony) Lincolnshire has a good music scene.
When I was 18 years old, having left my South London family home, my life was so full on with unmentionable things that, rather annoyingly, I overlooked that for the princely sum of one pound I could have experienced such unknowns as ... The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd and Cream in a 'flowery' place called Spalding.
You know ... nothing's changed here in loony Lincs. Last night (Wednesday night 16th. Jan 2019) we went as we often do to the regular 'open mic' night at Old Nick's Tavern in Horncastle and we listened to around a dozen musicians ranging in age from around 25 to 85 and music as diverse as a spontaneous 5 man band formation (with as good a drummer as you'll ever hear being I would estimate, 70 odd years old, and a young (named Josh) guitarist
C'est la vie.
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