AOTNZ tour Westport

Westport last night. Fabulous new venue called the NBS Theatre. Seats about 400 and we must have had 50 at the most but it felt great anyway. Fantastic acoustics and effective lighting. Excellent crowd including an old mate from Wanganui I haven't seen in years. Debbie the manager was terrific and sold CDs for us. I feel that the repertoire is at last falling into a logical sequence, and we included the debut performance of 'Let's have Friends Around for Dinner'. Forgot the words of course but the punters laughed at that as well. Inspired by our detour to Denniston a couple of days ago Terry bought 'The Denniston Rose' (Illustrated) and the sequel all-in-one and is right in the thick of it. Now he wants to go work in the mines. Apparently we are in for a big night at Frank's Cafe in Greymouth.....plenty booked and the town is on tenterhooks awaiting our triumphant arrival. I may be getting a bit carried away. I wonder if the interest they say they are experiencing is due to our having played there before? Still beautiful weather....apparently Central Otago is like Antarctica at the moment - we will find out on Saturday.

Andrew