Do you Feelgood because the Dr does?

  

Canvey Island, the home of Dr Feelgood, a band that have had fifteen members and as their current line-up has played over 1000 gigs. On the 19^th November 2010 they played in Newcastle’s The Clunny. Although a small location The Clunny is a good venue for them. They played some of their most famous songs including Great balls of fire, Milk and Alcohol and Riot in Cell block No.9. Even when the lead singer Robert Kane accidently unscrewed his microphone he managed to improvise by using the guitarists. Dr Feelgood is currently on a tour round the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden and Holland although in that tour still managed to go back to where they started in the 1960s.

The band did have a set song list although even when they had finished due to the crowd wanting several encores they did at least another four songs which took about another twenty minutes. By this time I was still enjoying it but I would have been happy with what they did on the original list. Although most of the night the band stayed in their roles for one song guitarist, Steve Walwyn took Robert’s place as lead vocals. This was good as it let the audience experience a variation of talents from the band.

Overall the night was good entertainment and the only objection I have is that we had to wait about an hour and a half for them to come on. If you live anywhere near where the band might be performing in the future then why not check out their website http://www.drfeelgood.org/ which has all their tour dates on. I hope you will enjoy them if you go as I did.

UK Big freeze expected to continue

Across the UK snow and ice continues to cause chaos for hundreds of schools and transport. The Met Office have issued emergency weather warnings for central and southern England. Although for other parts of the UK it doesn’t necessarily mean that the snow is over. The forecast for the UK says that from Friday onwards it starts to dry up.

On the Monday coming it is forecast to be cold but dry. An Article from The Times newspaper says that more than 1,500 schools are closed. Many are trying to get them back open but a few schools are asking pupils to do the work set from home.

Although for a lot of people the problem is transport when trying to get to work and workers are trying to grit as many roads as possible. Lets hope the weather gets better soon. I will keep try to keep people up to date with the weather so keep checking back!

We say goodbye to David Tennant as the doctor

Last night we saw David Tennant in his last ever Doctor Who and what an episode to go out on! The first of the two episodes received ten million viewers. Matt Smith who will be the eleventh doctor will start next series so we will have to wait to see what he’s like! David was the Doctor from 2005 to 2010 which puts him just behind Tom Baker in how long each actor played the role.

A new doctor also means a new assistant, she’s called Amy Pond who is played by Karen Gillan. The Two of them will return in the spring but for now we are going to have to wait, The only sneak preview we have is the new trailer for the series. Here it is.

It looks as though it will be a good one and we see the return of some old enemies and other aliens we have seen before as well. These include the Weeping Angels seen in Blink and the Doctors long time enemy the Daleks. As always please feel free to comment!!!