Saturday August 26th 2023
Our first indoor concert of the year takes us to Scarborough Spa, located in Scarborough’s picturesque South Bay and is one of the most prestigious venues for conferences, exhibitions, entertainment and events on the Yorkshire Coast.
12.15 start as we need to be in Scarborough around 4pm for a sound-check so no pub stop-off.
Also no gold bus today, travelling in the car with the gear going in the van.
Just Alex to pick up as Roy & Keith went ahead separately sightseeing…
Peter & Carl are here…
Keith found a pub to stop off at in Harrogate – The Nelson Inn…
He tried a pint of the Brightside Brewery bitter…
The beer is 3.8% ABV and is more on the malty side, focusing on the biscuit, Caramel & Vanilla notes which the crystal malts bring out, the intensity of the roast barley gives it light nuttiness to the flavour and contributes towards the colour.
The food was stunning…
At least we had some nice scenery to look at…
And a pit stop near Tadcaster…
Anyone tried drinking a boiling hot over-full costa coffee in a fast moving vehicle?
Meanwhile Roy had stopped off in Walkington near Beverley…
Black Sheep on draught…
Went on a bit of a crawl…
Still, we had our nice views…
Surely not far now…
Eventually we arrived in Scarborough…
We parked outside the venue…
Impressive!
Off to dump our bags…
And check the drinks fridge…
The sound-check was delayed by over an hour so we headed back outside to find something to eat…
We bumped into huge Farm fan Paul Lomax and his fiancé Belinda…
They told us there was a chippy about 10 minutes up the road…
It didn’t take us long to find Britain’s best…
Couldn’t argue…
Anyway, back to the venue…
Nu was checking the mics…
Carl & Roy checking the rhythm…
I was checking the adjoining bar…
I only had a half…
Sound check over, we’d arranged to meet guests in the town, little did we know it was a long steep climb up many steps…
We we’re heading for the Cask Inn…
We ordered 3 pints of Hophead by the Dark Star brewery…
They went down a treat, we ordered more but then had to think about getting back to the venue, thankfully our guests showed us a short cut and in no time we were back at sea level…
We were thrilled to meet and chat to our old mates from Leeds outside the Spa…
Time was pressing so we headed back to the dressing room…
A big crowd had gathered in the hall…
Time to go on!
What a brilliant crowd and great reaction…
After the show we watched Cast…
It was a brilliant gig but it was getting late and we had a long journey ahead of us…
A perfect way to end our summer of gigs.
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