{"id":643,"date":"2011-08-13T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/?p=643"},"modified":"2011-08-13T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:27:54","slug":"roadhouse-live-at-the-cambridge-rock-festival-782011-with-massive-apologies-for-the-cancelled-gig-in-harrogate-leeds-on-the-5th-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/2011\/08\/13\/roadhouse-live-at-the-cambridge-rock-festival-782011-with-massive-apologies-for-the-cancelled-gig-in-harrogate-leeds-on-the-5th-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadhouse Live At The Cambridge Rock Festival – 7\/8\/2011 (with massive apologies for the cancelled gig in Harrogate & Leeds on the 5th & 6th)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good analagy for getting old is imagine yourself to be a car. 50 odd years down the line somethings going to break or snap, or wear out……. I’ve been waiting for an operation on a very nasty, ‘sc fi’ type condition called Trigeminal Neuralgia, or TGN (google it for nightmares). Known as the ‘Suicide pain’, it’s not something to be wished upon your worst enemy. I’ve an operation to remedy that, set up for the 18th August and drugs were keeping the bulk of the symtoms at bay. So in line with my general luck I was really diassapointed about 10 days ago, when the symptoms broke though the drug barrier.<\/p>\n

I managed to play the Jook House, but when Roger came to pick me up for the gigs at the Blues Bar Harrogate and the Duck and Drake, Leeds,I was literally on my knees. There was just no way…. so apologies to Danny and Bill who had to turn back on their journey. Apologies to the dozens of Roadhouse fans who had made arrangements to attend… I’m really, really\u00a0sorry. Roadhouse missing a gig = about 6 times in 20.5 years.<\/p>\n

These were two of my fave venues, run by the lovely Simon and Sharon Colgan (great singer)….\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 all they sent me were massages of encouragement – top people!, we’ll be back for them and or friends up North as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

So, after a dark period where I was living the lyrics to a lot of my songs, people started to say to me, if we drive you if we carry your gear, if you take extra pain killers, could you, could you, could you do the 1 hour apprearance at Cambridge.<\/p>\n

So to the wonderful Cambridge Rock Festival. It was so good\u00a0I think you should call it the Carling Rock Festival, as it was so well organised and artists\u00a0were really looked after. The stage and\u00a0auditorium were great\u00a0and all under canvass. the sound was awsome!.<\/p>\n

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So, pumped full of pain killers and with only Mandie to keep me company on the\u00a0vocals, we hit the stage. People\u00a0who were there say they cannot believe how aggressive we were, as the band really went for it……<\/p>\n

\"Roadhouse<\/a> As we hit the intro to ‘Tellin Lies’ people came streaming ino the tent.<\/p>\n

By the middle of the second number it was packed.<\/p>\n

Crowd reaction was brilliant and so many friends and supporters were there. From “Telling Lies” to a great version of “Rainmaker”. Swamp Girl lead to ‘House of The Rising Sun’ where Mandie got an ovation. Next\u00a0 was ‘Too Tired To Pray’, with killer slide from Danny.<\/p>\n

‘Roadhouse Blues’ (full of my usual self indulgence), ‘Voodoo Queen’ and the encore ‘Preacher Man’ completed one of our best festival appearances for a while. Roger and Bill were really tight……<\/p>\n

Live At the Cambridge Rock Festival<\/em><\/p>\n

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By the end I was fit to drop andI was pretty ill the following day. But what a great festival. We hope to be back next year. My operation next Thursday should take care of this\u00a0medical problem..<\/p>\n

Thanks for your patience and passion<\/p>\n

Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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