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Another day another gig
Friday was the first night of the 10th Lift Global Music Festival.
Ten years, not bad for a volunteer organisation in a small town on the fringes of a big city.
So what did we get for the tenth birthday bash. First up was local jazz/funk fusion types the Woodbank Street Band. Nice friendly world ranging sounds that worked well as a warm up to the main act who were Shooglenifty. Introduced as a band that has been considered many times but has always been decided to be expensive to book. Well this year they're very expensive but finally have been booked.
Shooglenifty are long time stalwats of the modern 'acid croft' fusion of traditional scottish music with world and club beats. Launched into their set of tunes designed to get you dancing, or at least tapping your foot and nodding your head. After a while there wasn't anyone dancing so there were several exhortations for people to get to their feet. As the night warmed up more and more people were up on the dnace floor enjoying themselves. By the finish almost everyone was dancing and the band looked like they had a good time.

This year there was a new innovation for the Lift festival, a licensed bar. Normally for gigs at the town hall it has been a case of bring your own. This year a mobile bar had been set up from one of the local pubs so we were able to buy real ale (and other drinks) to slake our thirst with.

All in all a good night out and we'll wait to see who they have next year for the next festival.

As the lead Shoogle said about that intro "Of all the introductions we've ever had, that was certainly the most... recent"

Good humour, good music, good night out

Ah Shoogle, I've not seen them in well over a year. I really must get back to it as they are fantastic. Definitely the band I have seen most often and to not dance would be a sin.

As mentioned elsewhere I did think of contacting you to see if you could come on down (the price is right...) to have a jolly evening out.