Open Mic Nights

Open Mic Nights (Woodlands Tavern)

Song-writing Competition - May 29th 2011

The Winning Song - by Alan Dublon, "We Can't Possibly Win" Elaine's "In the UK"

Graham Turner's "Dada Dada Days of Summer" Steve Hutchinson's "Harry Potter"

LynnyB's "Lalake" (Boys) Matt Wedgewoods "Veni Venita"

Paul Phillips "Wnat, Need, Say"

Apologies to Roger Harrison but due to technical problems the recording did not do his song justice.

Write a UK song entry for the Eurovision Song Contest!

This was great fun! We had eight competitors and the results were very close but Alan Dublon won and Lynny B came joint second with myself!

Alan's winning song was on the subject of the political voting habits at the Eurovision Song Contest itself and featured the hook line "Everyone hates the English". We now have some "You Tubes" of the competition songs available to view.

Woodlands Open Mic Night Photos

June 26th Open Mic Night

Piers and Elaine

Dan

Derek

Ian

Marc and Dave

May 29th Open Mic Night

Alan Dublon and Matt Wedgewood	LynnyB and her backing singers
Steve Hutchinson and Elaine Samuels	Graham Turner
James English	Roger Harrison
Mike Lawley	Piers Hogg

February 27th 2011

Elaine - solo	Elaine jamming and Dave Irons performing
Iain Mussett playing guitar and Marc Ratcliff singing	Iain Mussett performing solo
Tom (acoustic bass) and Ashok (12-string guitar + vocs)- from the band Coaster - performing

January 30th 2011

Nessles singing backing vocals for Elaine	John Potter
Terry Silver and Leigh Moth (with Elaine's Chandler built electric guitar) jamming with Elaine	Jon Bental
Nessles performing with Elaine jamming on guitar	Leigh Moth
Terry Silver jamming with his whistle	Some of the "Howdo"
Paul Date (right) with a member of "Howdo" jamming on mandolin	Iain Mussett
John Potter with Terry Silver jamming on mandolin	Terry Silver on guitar (doesn't he play a lot of instruments!)
David (centre) and friends jamming along	The final "mega" jam

December 19th 2010

Elaine with Alan Dublon playing lead guitar	Matt Wedgewood and Alan Dublon
Paul Date	"Howdo"
Polly, Beth and Elaine attempting "Fairytale of New York"	Beth
Iain Mussett	Marc Ratcliff and Iain Mussett

November 28th 2010

Terry Silver	"The Secret" - Matt Wedgewood, Alan Dublon and Paul Nichols
Paul Nichols jamming with Dave Irons	Derek O'Conner
Iain Mussett - singer song-writer	John - playing some classical guitar
Leigh Moth	Marc - the landlord - singing, Elaine accompanying on guitar
Nick - singer song-writer	Phil Martin and Paul (playing some lead for "The Secret")
Matt Wedgewood - singer song-writer	Richard - playing the keyboards