OFF: Limelight Club (HLL & Bedouin)

Chris Warburton desdinova at EARTHLING.NET
Fri Nov 5 19:44:30 EST 1999


Folks,
I went to the Limelight Club in Crewe (of all places) to see The MuffinMen
(of whom more shortly).

For those in easy travelling distannce of Crewe & planning to see Huwie or
Bedouin, the Limelight is a pretty good venue with raised areas to either
side, and a higher area yet at the back where the bar is.  Basically
there's a good view from everywhere in  the place & beer prices are
reasonable (£1.75/pint for London Pride).

As for The Muffin Men, for any British (& sometimes European) Zappa
afficionados, these guys are great - 2 guitars, bass, drums &
trumpet/flugel/English horn player, and they play a huge variety of stuff
from the great man's oeuvre, from the  early days (Who Needs The Peace
Corps/Concentration Moon/My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama) through the
middle erea jazz-rock & sleaze (Big Swifty/Mr.Green Genes/Camarillo
Brilleaux) to the latter day complexity (& sleaze) (Ride My Face To
Chicago) &  just like FZ with "Stairway..." a tongue in cheek Zep tribute
in the form of a deliciously unhinged "Kashmir".  A fab night's rockin'
entertainment sadly curtailed after two & a quarter hours by the 11:15
curfew - I reckon they could have played all night.  They're not just
copyists BTW, they do give a new spin to some of the tunes  with whacky
arrangements of their own!  Catch 'em if you can while they are on tour, &
I think they're off to Germany with Jimmy Carl Black after they're done in
the UK.

Also, coming to Nottingham in December (maybe other places too) are The
Zappatistas, John Etheridge's 'Zappa band' who also come highly
recommended, though I missed them when they originally did the rounds.

Th-th-th-th-th-that's all f-folks
ChrisW
Gathering an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants in order to dump
them inside of his shirt!



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