Bank Holiday

Well - we had a great night in the Cobblestone on Friday night.  Graham and myself had been at the RTE Radio studios earlier in the day, to sing a song and have a chat with Pat Kenny.   I chose to sing Boys of Barr na Sraide - partly because I'm so comfortable with that song and life radio is nerve-racking at that hour of the morning, before the voice is fully awake - and partly in celebration of the Palme d'Or win of Ken Loach's film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley.  It was the most glorious day - the sun shone all day long - a most wonderful start to the bank holiday weekend.  So Friday night saw us down in Smithfield.  A lot of friends and relations turned up for the gig, mostly from my mother's side and including my wonderful niece Seonaid.  It turned out to be a very lovely night, pin drop silence thanks to the sensitive barman, Noel, loads of CD sales thanks to the doorman Roly, and great support from a very appreciative audience.  When we arrived home, we opened a bottle of wine and watched the week's episode of The Sopranos, which was the best yet, the one with Sir Ben Kingsley and Laran Bacall - then as we were still hyper, we watched about 3 episodes of Come West Along the Road, and opened another bottle - eventually we ran out of the following day's dinner wine, and headed off to bed about 5!  Old Simplicity is truly launched!