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Pete Lawrence Garden Party
Braunston, Warks
August Bank Holiday Weekend 2009

A super little regular event that Pete has put on for the last couple of years at his new place in the Midlands. He's a most genial host, putting breakfast together for attendees on the Sunday morning and basically opening his house up for the handful of people that turn up.

This year, Pete invited me to perform in his new barn conversion, a pretty big space with a lovely open fire and a decent soundsystem to boot.

Earlier in the day, Tom Green's new collective 'Newanderthal' had played outside on the lawn, in actual fact I think it might have been there inaugaral gig. Ansuman Biswas [freshly freed after his self-imposed incarceration as the Manchester Hermit] joined him on percussion - it was a really peaceful performance - shame that there was too much wind - it was a gusty day...

Pete played the assembled audience of about twenty people his new DVD - a selection of choice tracks with accompanying imagery... it went down really well. After that I sat down at my keyboards and proceeded to play one of the nicest and most enjoyable gigs of my career to date. OK, I was a little nervous to start with, playing in front of such a small audience in close proximity, but as the time went on, I found myself settling into it really well, and even attempted completely new improvisations there too.

I spent the night in the campervan outside, before leaving earlyish on the Sunday; a shame really, as Emily Davis played a lovely acoustic set my all accounts.

Looking forward to next year!

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