My ears are bleeding - well not literally, but they ought to be, Mr SketchWeasel and I have just returned from the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton where a certain George Thorogood & The Destroyers were playing tonight.

The evening kicked off with a so-so support act called the Deadstring Brothers from Detroit, Michigan, whose musical numbers seemed to merge into each other without definition or passion, but that's ok, because George Thorogood & the Destroyers took to the stage at 8.30pm and rocked the Civic Hall for the next hour and forty minutes, the audience where a mixed age range from 15 to 115 and nearly everyone was up and dancing (apart from the few stiffs who seemed to have walked into the wrong gig!)

The show was a sell out and I'm not surprised and at £22.50 per ticket was excellent value for money (lets not get into a row about the booking fee, which raised the price of each ticket to 25 quid!)

We managed - eventually after the great British queue to get hold of a copy of the new album Hard Stuff - autographed.
They played new stuff from the new album and standards like Bad to the Bone, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (one of my favourites)

I like going to gigs and have to say (in my limited experience) that this was one of the ones that I most enjoyed because it seemed that everyone there was having a good time, no fights broke out and everyone left in great spirits after four encoures!

Fantastic evening and one I shall no doubt rave about for a bit!

Tara a bit all - sleep well x