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 19th 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.
