50th Wedding Anniversary - The Phoenix Suite, Club Chesterfield.

I'm not sure what I think about family "do's", when you have to be there from midday to set up, and be nice to people you only see at Weddings & Funerals... but then it's worth it to have the whole complete set-up, with the big rig, all the lasers, lights and smoke machine.... and I also now understand why the rolling stones have such a big entourage, many hands do make light work.

So we set it all up on the big stage (another good reason for playing social clubs, plenty of room on stage to set up) and it did look good, briliant in fact, and went home for some tea.

So a quick 40 winks later we were all (well apart from Big 'Un) suited and booted and ready to rock and rock we did!
Two brilliant sets, kids sliding across the dancefloor, a famous guest (Freddie Jerkery - all the way from Wembley) and an even more special guest in the form of Nat taking over on guitar.

A big thanks to everyone that turned up, friends, family and everyone else!
Oh and we're doing it all again next week at Barrow Hill Club!

Ha, Ha! Another night, another pub, another great gig from the Rio 5 boys.
Brampton's Royal Oak was the venue, Saturday night was the reason (and why not?) and who says the smoking ban is dragging the pub trade to it's knees? Sure there were some people outside in the smoking area, but a bit of jiggery-pokery with the in-house sound meant they didn't miss out on the fun whilst the healthy clean-living people got the full show, and what a show. Fantastic showmanship, good jokes and great fun. All the songs were in there and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Keep an eye out for next years dates coming soon. We're next at The Oak on Weds 12th Dec.
There's no rest for the wicked as we've got it all to do again next Saturday, and the Saturday after that.
Keep rockin'

We really don't like to do things the easy way do we? We've been out and about for the past month, getting married, having holidays and all that, so we didn't have time to really practice the NEW songs (yes thats new songs, avid reader) but we managed to squeeze a quick get together in, between finishing work and England v. Russia kicking off on Weds night, and all went well so we decided to put them in at The Grouse.

I'll be honest, both of them need a bit of polishing, and the fact that we didn't use monitors also didn't help, but we've got 4 more gigs this month so by October we'll have them nailed, there's nothing like learning them live to sharpen your wits up.

The Grouse is a great pub with a great atmosphere, there's usually a band on every Thurs/Fri, ring them 01246279632 to find out who's on, I know we're booked in next at the end of January.

We'd also like to thank the "South Yorkshire Posse" for making the journey over the border to have a look, and they got up singing too.

Our next gig is Sat 15th Sept - just down the road at The Oak www.myspace.com/royaloakbrampton where we'll do it all again, we'll see you there.