LAST NIGHT 20100 AT MFN.

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WELL LAST NIGHT WAS THE LAST NIGHT AT M.F.N. FOR THIS YEAR.WILL NOT REOPEN NOW TIL APRIL AND WHAT A GREAT NIGHT IT WAS. SHIPLEY BOAT REUNION AND CHARITY NIGHT. HEAD LINE ACT THE ROCK AND ROLL LEDGEND CHARLIE GRACIE. NOW ALMOST 75 YEARS OLD BUT BOY CAN HE STILL PREFORM. HAD MY PHOTO TOOK WITH HIM AT THE END OF THE NIGHT. GRAIG STRONGMAN WAS DOING HIS DISCO IN THE BAR SAID HELLO TO HIM SO NOW I CAN PUT A FACE TO ANOTHER NOTTSTALGIA MEMBER JUST MANAGED TO HEAR HIS LAST FEW SONGS, SORRY GRAIG BUT THE ROCK AND ROLL WON OUT FOR ME IN THE MAIN ROOM IN CHARLIES WORDS IT WAS FABULOUS..THIS FOLLOWED ANOTHER GREAT ROCK AND ROLL NIGHT WITH MALCS TEDDY,S ON SATURDAY NIGHT FOLLOWED BY MILO AND THE TT SHAKERS IN THE BAR.. M.F.N WAS RAMMING FOR SATURDAY NIGHT BUT AS MALC KNOWS I CARNT STAND FOR LONG I GOT A CHAIR PUT UP NEAR THE STAGE SO I CAN SEE THE SHOW IN COMFORT USSUALL NO SEATS IN THE CONCERT ROOM AT M.F.N. FOR THE SHOWS. BUT THIS DOSE NOT SEEM TO BOTHER MOST PEOPLE .

LAST NIGHT THEY HAD PLACED A FEW TABLES AND CHAIRS ON THE FLOOR BUT I STILL PUT MY CHAIR IN ITS USSUAL PLACE NEAR THE STAGE MEANS I AM PRITY MUCH GOING TO GET A GOOD VEIW AND DONT GET KNOCKED OVER BY THE GROWDS JOGGING FOR A BETTERE VEIW .LOTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN LAST NIGHT AS IT WAS A REUNION BUT NOT AS RAMMING AS ON SATURDAY NIGHT. BUT STILL A FEW YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT. A COUPLE OF YOUNG REALLY GOOD JIVERS ON THE FLOOR .ONE OF THE REALLY YOUNG GIRLS WAS UP ON THE STAGE ON SATURDAY WITH THE TEDDY,S DOING A FEW RUTINES WITH MALC AND THE BAND GREAT YOUNG JIVER AND HAD ONLY HAD ONE PRACTICE WITH THE BAND BEFORE THE SHOW ITS GREAT TO SEE ALL THE YOUNGSTERS TAKING UP ROCK AND ROLL AND KEEPING THE SCENE GOING HOPEFULLY FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.

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