Hi everyone, we will play through these and then pick the best ones to play on May 4th (details for the gig are a couple of posts below this) . I’ll post a final list next week for anyone who is missing the rehearsal but coming to the concert.

There is a new one which is in part a tribute to Burt Bacharach but also because I watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the other day!

Every Day, Five Hundred Miles, Folsom Prison Blues/Pinball Wizard, Happy Together, Hi Ho Silver Lining, I Wanna Be Like You, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, I’m a Believer, I’m into Something Good, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Lipstick on your Collar, *Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head*, Stuck in the Middle with You, Sunny Afternoon, The Letter, Whole Lotta Shakin/Chantilly Lace

Hi everyone, here is the set! It’s quite an easyish one to play, and should be good for a sing-a-long!

Ballad of John and Yoko, Blue Suede Shoes, Bring Me Sunshine, California Blue, C’est La Vie, Chanson D’Amour, Cigareets and Whuskey, Country Roads, Cracklin’ Rosie, Creeque Alley, Cupid, Daydream Believer, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Delilah, Dirty Old Town, *The Letter*

Here is next weeks themed set, and I use the word ‘themed’ very loosely……

*Cupid*, *Stupid Cupid*, All I have to do is Dream, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Rocket Man, Urban Spaceman, Travelin’ Light, The Weight, Waterloo Sunset, Bad Moon Rising, Mr Tambourine Man, Ukulele Lady, Everybody’s Talking, Sound Of Silence, Teenage Kicks, When I’m 64

We have been asked to play for the 8 o’ Clock Circle on May 4th which is a Thursday. The details are as follows –

8pm start

The Royal British Legion Hall , Church Lane KT9 2DR (about 200m up the road from the church where we meet)

45 to 60 minute set

You can bring your partners if you wish although I think they would like to get an idea of any extra numbers before we start.

They have a bar!

Please let me know if you think you can or can’t do it so I can keep track…..

Hi everyone, here is the set for the 14th. We are doing a few we haven’t played for a while, and a new Neil Diamond number!

*Cracklin’ Rosie*, House of the Rising Sun, Jumping Jack Flash, Nights in White Satin, People are Strange, Road to Nowhere, Somewhere Only we Know, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Sunny Afternoon, Super Trouper (in G), Surfing USA, That’ll be the Day, This Train is Bound For Glory, Three Little Birds, Ukulele (Hallelujah Spoof), Twist and Shout, What a Wonderful World (Armstrong)

Hi everyone,

Here it is then, the riposte to last session’s Valentine’s Day sweetness. It was tricky to whittle down all the great break up songs we play but here is the set –

Fats Domino Medley, Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover, Go Now, I Heard it Through Grapevine, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, It’s My Party, Jolene, *Lipstick on your Collar*, Promises, Return to Sender, SOS, See You Later Alligator, Tainted Love, Tracks Of My Tears, Thorn In My Side, These Boots Are Made for Walking, Without You

Some of them are a bit tricky but breaking up is hard to do……

Hi everyone, after the last session was a love song free zone, I thought we may as well fully embrace Valentine’s Day! I’ve tried not to make it too sickly…….

Here is the set list –

Baby I Love You, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Can’t Help Falling In Love, Five Hundred Miles, Friday I’m In Love, Great Balls Of Fire, Happy Together, I Only Want To Be With You, I Walk The Line, If Paradise Is Half As Nice, I’m A Believer, I’m Into Something Good, It Must Be Love, Nights In White Satin, River Deep Mountain High, She, Stand By Me, To Love Somebody

We may not get through them all….Look out for the ‘break up’ special on the 28th!

Hi everyone, here is the set for the 31st. The theme is ‘No Love Songs’!!!! There will be plenty of those at the Valentine’s Day special on the 14th of Feb…..

I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Die, I Fought The Law, I Wanna Be Like You, Jailhouse Rock, Jambalaya, Jonny B Goode, King of the Road, Malt and Barley Blues, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, *Mr Tambourine Man*, Mrs Robinson, Nine to Five, Paint it Black, Proud Mary, Rhinstone Cowboy, Riders on the Storm, Rock Around the Clock

New members are welcome!

Hi everyone, happy new year and off we go again!

We are meeting in the same place at the same time – see the ‘Session Info’ link above for more details. Last year the hall rental went up so please note I am putting the prices up by a pound (£9 online, £10 in cash).

Here is the set list, there are a couple of new ones and a nod to the passing of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie –

Don’t Stop, You’re So Vain, *You Wear it Well*, Whole lotta Shaking/Chantilly Lace, With a Little Help From My Friends, Waterloo Sunset, Waterloo, Venus, Valerie, *To Love Somebody*, Tainted Love, Sway, Starman, Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay, Sit Down, Should I Stay or Should I Go

New members are very welcome, come and see what we’re about. It’s more about having fun and meeting people than getting all the chords right!

Beth and I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Well done to everyone who played at the Women’s Institute xmas evening which went really well. Hopefully we will be able to do more concerts in the near future.

Thanks to everyone who has come to the sessions this year, it’s been great fun as always and we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have.

We’re looking forward to getting started again in 2023, and the dates for the first few months are as follows –

January 17 and 31

February 14 and 28

March 14 and 28

See you soon!

The last session of 2022 will be on the 6th (not the 29th), and there is a concert on the 8th at the Parish Hall in Hook.

Here are the details for Thursday 8th – Hook and Southborough Hall, 224 Hook Road, KT9 1PL. In an email today the organiser asked if we can arrive at 7 15 and start at 7 30, please let me know if you have any issues with that! There is a bit of parking around the back and on the nearby streets. As I mentioned at the last rehearsal, we could wonder over to the North Star (appropriate) afterwards for a Christmas drink.

We will play these tunes first to get them ‘gig ready’ –

Merry Christmas Everyone, Blue Christmas, Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Let it Snow, Santa Baby, Jingle Bell Rock, Winter Wonderland, Feliz Navidad,White Christmas, Merry Xmas Everybody

and then if we have time left on Tuesday we will play some of these for fun –

I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day, Have Yourselves a Merry Little Christmas, Must be Santa, Frosty The Snowman, Santa Looked alot like Daddy, Fairytale of New York

Let me know if you have any questions! For the sheet downloaders amongst you, here is a link from last year. The order might not be correct but all the songs should be there.