There was a steady flow of Biscuiteers arriving. We had seen Howie and Daz at the beginning of their trek. They had made light work of the pubs of Stowmarket. Postman Tony, John, Steve, Brian and Graham Le Taxi all made one in, along with Mr and Mrs Exford. Examining the interior of the building, you might think it would have been a chapel in its previous life. But I was told that it was a corn exchange.

Chris Ingram was the support act. Stand-up poetry works in certain settings but I struggled with it tonight. There was the constant hum of conversation from the crowd, and he was accompanied by a guy (by the name of Roger) on guitar for much of his set So the words were often lost on me. He needs to be heard at something a bit more poetry specific, rather than a music gig. But who am I to say? I particularly appreciated the premise of his poem All Day Breakfast In A Can.Just a shame that the vinyl is held up due to Adele’s divorce album using all the pressing capacity.

Yes, there was a BBC film about the murder case, from 1990, and like many things these days, here it is on YouTube. The HMHB Data Retrieval System has been updated with the Llangollen setlist and links to all the videos I could find. The whole gig’s there (more or less) from McTavish plus 11 from the angles Lee & Jane, Andy (IB) and Julian Cwalinski were watching from. Many thanks to all of you.

About HMHB

I’m not a scholar, but yes it’s molon labe, “Come and take them!”, the remark the Spartans sent to Xerxes in response to “Hand over your weapons!” before the Battle of Thermopylae (480BC) – the omega is correct I think. It’s a great T-shirt (notwithstanding the use of the slogan by US gun lobby nutjobs who use crossed assault rifles rather than guitars). Not much I can add with regards the sheer brilliance and variety of any live HMHB show. Every Time A Bell Rings seems to get better with every outing. As good a rendition of Look Dad as I’ve heard (and that’s not just because it was my FBL joker and didn’t appear until the encore). Chuffed to hear Jarg Armani too – like most people, I assumed it would be dropped from the set list after its first play in 59 gigs at Bristol last time out. One other thing that seems to have been overlooked – NB sang ‘Ravi Shastri’, rather than ‘Sadi Rani’, during the snippet of Brimful of Asha (now available on YouTube). Apologies therefore to anyone on Fri/Sat to whom I said I thought, pending research, that it had been a TV theme. Apologies too that I even sang the tune to Transit Full of Keith as we tried to fix his bike chain between pubs on Saturday.