Open Mic.

I prefer ukulele jams to any other type of 'social' music event.
There, I've said it.
At uke jams you turn up, you play for around an hour, you socialise, you play for around another hour, you go home happy.

At open mic nights you basically sit quietly in a queue until its your turn to play.
Then you will be invited to perform up to 2 songs then, when it comes back to your turn again, you can sing and play 2 more songs or just 1 more if time is tight then you go home and agonise over missing a D7 in the last chorus of what ever it was you were playing and begin to weep.

So, why am I in the Bognor Regis branch of the RAFA for their open mic night?
Well, I need to practice my 'Popular Melodies of Days Gone By' in public to make sure I'm getting the performance right and I think it's important to support this type of evening.

I differ from the majority of the attendees in that I've learnt, by practicing & practicing & practicing the songs I intend to play.
I think it's about having respect for the song.

I play:
01) Memphis Tennessee.
02) I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas.
03) We'll Meet Again.

Here are two of my favourite episodes from the evening:
'Day by Day' Performed by the Jam House Band:

The University of the Third Age John Gradwell Guitar Group perform "Singing In The Rain":

(Ahhh, bless).

There's another reason for putting myself through the Open Mic experience.
Just every once in a while I can almost imagine I'm in some kind of David Lynch movie.