it seems to be the trend for October (and from what I can tell it’s going to

continue into November, well into

November) it’s another all live show. Nothing Scandinavian this time around

though. First up it’s The Sensible Gray Cells, but “Hold on!” I hear you cry

“Their tour has just been cancelled”. True, but to illustrate my frustration at

the gigs being cancelled, all four of them, due to perceived low tickets sales,

the added prices to the face value,

that you don’t get back in the event of a cancellation I use one of their songs

from “A Postcard From Britain” and thanks to modern technology make it sound

how you would’ve heard it on the tour……The first real live band on this week’s

show is Goat Leaf who unfortunately I only caught the last song from their Kory

Clarke support slot. Admittedly it was a good last song. The band feature

former Warrior Soul guitarist Johnny H and their brand of Stoner, Punk, and

Desert Session Rock was right up my street. (I did contemplate seeing them at

The Unicorn Thursday but due to an extremely late night the day before seeing

Bernie Tormé down in Brighton I didn’t. Thanks M23 mega diversion for adding an

extra 40 minutes to the journey.) Obviously Kory Clarke (Warrior Soul, Trouble,

Mob Research, etc) is this week’s main attraction with the final date of his

current UK Tour, well 4 Scottish dates and 2 English which makes a change. The

gig in question was at The Islington in er…Islington to promote Kory’s new

Cargo released CD “Payback’s A Bitch”. Kory looked tanned and relaxed but still

giving the (Stiff) Middle Finger to those deemed to have crossed him. Old

classics and soon to be new classics stood up well together with the band

pretty much laying waste to all and sundry.