Not everyone will know the name but I bet a lot of people will know some of the songs he has written.He opened his set with You Won't Be Leaving, a song that should be familiar to my Noonatic friends, and he ended it with Fox On The Run which was a hit of the Mike d'Abo era Manfred Mann. In between he enchanted most of the audience with some fabulous melodies including a song written for Lulu and one about being jealous of Paul McCartney's songwriting skills.
I say most of the audience because unfortunately there was a rather loud group conversation going on during his set on the front stage. It seemed that the babble was preventing him from hearing his own playing. This is annoying enough at the best of times, but more so when it is someone of his songwriting talent. who I really wanted to hear.
Pushing that quibble aside aside, it was a thrill to see him perform and I hadn't had an early start the next day I may have endured a longer stay on Mathew Street on a Friday night to take in the second set. However once this set was over I had to do the sensible thing and call it a day.
I hope I get another chance to see him perform again, maybe in a proper venue, as I was completely enthralled.
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