The place to be on Saturday night

The answer is: The Cactus Cafe. Guy Forsyth and the Asylum Street Spankers were playing two shows at 7 and 10. Only now that I am awake on Sunday morning, I am wishing we had seen the earlier of the two shows. I didn't get home until 2:30. a.m.! Haven't been up this late since last summer at the Bruce Springsteen concert. If you click on that link you will be taken back in time to the Bruce concert in NJ.

That's the UT tower above - all lit up in orange to celebrate the December graduation.

Guy started out playing with just two others, a bass guitar/tuba player (that's a tuba in the photo below, right?) and female drummer. They played the first half of the show and the three of them were just great. Not many bands have a female drummer, so this was pretty cool and she was excellent. They must have been playing together for a while because they played at least one song that she and Guy wrote together.

Wammo was heckling Guy off to the side so he was brought up on stage to play his washboard.

Then they took a break and reset the stage for the Spankers. Guy used to play with this group for years and then they seem to have parted but they come back together every once in a while. I am too tired to do more links today so you will have to look them up yourself. We saw the Spankers, without Guy, at Threadgills over the summer and we've seen them at the Saxon Pub. They are a fun band with memorable voices and catchy fun tunes. I am pretty sure there's a blog in my archives about them, but I can't find it. If have an opportunity to see them - go!

At the very end of the show they brought up some former members of the Spankers who were in the audience and allowed them to play the last song with the current band. This meant that the drummer and stand up bass had to share playing the same instruments! It was pretty raucus and very very fun listening and watching them have fun.

I can see a nap in my future later today....