50% of banjaxed gig at Meriendas – another list for comment please

Last Friday we performed at Meriendas. We being - RenWoman on lead vocals, shakers, bodhran, upstaging; mesel on guitar, harmonies occasional vocals; Ricardo on the 'box' (cajones – flamenco beat box). We're half of banjaxed (the local well known beat combo) and still struggling for a name. 'Not Quiet Broken' was suggested. Anyways a fiver to a charity of your choice for the best name.

The set list gives a fair idea of the age and musical experience and inclination of the band.

1. Box Rag – Instrumental (made up on the night to warm up the audience) – reprised later in the set - but different.
   
2. I once loved a lad (Eng Trad – slightly jazzes – in D with the bottom E dropped to D for the musos)
   
3. Ruby Tuesday (Jagger- Richards – fair cover with the stones' usual riff duh dah dah)
   
4. Mozambique (from Dylan's Desire – shaker – a bit faster than the original)
   
5. Where Do The Children Play
   (Cat Stevens ~ thingie Islam now … I use the guitar effects pedal on this one if I can find it)
   
6. Times They are a Changing
   (Bob - but a reggae version. Bob who? DYLAN DYLAN!!)
   
7. Love and Happiness
   (I forget who by – that chap from Dire Straits and Emmy Lou I think. I can't help hearing it as Love and A Penis. Which sort of spoils it for performing seriously)
   
8. The One I Love
   (David Gray – with the effects pedal again to make it sound like a helicopter – if I can find…the…. Right…. Ah …)
   
9. Dimming of The day
   (Richard Thompson – great song great harmony – fun to sing)
   
10. Careless Love
    (Trad – very much the Joan Baez version. For this one we become 2/3rds of banjaxed as Valeree joins us)
    
11. Super Trooper
    ( ABBA – yes ABBA. I like it - though there was some resistance from RW and Ricardo)
    
12. ONE (yer man BONO – but nearer the Johnny Cash version. ABBA ? U2? I don't question my thought processes in drawing up these lists)
    
13. Baby can I Hold You – Sorry (Tracy Chapman – great song, difficult timing. Someone (SIMON Dawson!) dropping the dominos in the first bar didn't help)
    
14. Love Me Do (Lennon & Macca. Slowed down version – great simple song – I sneak in a Steve Tilston ending)
    
15. Too Old to Wrangle (not sure of the provenance – have known it for years – country harmony all the way . not sure who does the tune - me or RW)
    
16. Things Have Changed (Bob again – but more recent from his gardening period – the only song I know about wheelbarrows)
    
17. Every Night (McCartney via Phoebe Snow – with carry that weight and another macca song at the end. Much as I try to dislike Paul he does occasional throw in a good un)
    
18. Party Doll (Jagger Richards again – great song – relatively unknown – look it up by Mary Chapin-Carpenter)
    
19. Frank Mills (from Hair – really nice little narrative song with only 1 rhyme - slant - Waverley with unfortunatley)
    
20. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (Trad; Pentangled and then 50% banjaxed- good jazz feel)
    
21. Wheels On Fire (Bob – via Julie Driscoll – rocks)
    
22. San Francisco Bay Blues (Jesse Fuller; but I've been doing it since 1965 – long before Eric C – so there)
    
23. Please Please Me (Lennon Mac; very slowed down version – more like a folk song)
    
24. Pebbles on the Beach ( A gem from Paul Weller)
    
25. Bobby McGee (Kristofferson with the Joplin ending – yeh I know but everybody sings along)
    
26. I got you Babe (Sonny Bono and Cher? – no matter how many times we sing it I still don't know the words)
    
27. Paved Paradise (Joni Mitchell – as near as we can to the original)
    
28. We didn't do 'Love the One You are With' (Steve Stills) .. 'cos I forgot the timing .. weird
    

Any requests - for our next outing please? Apart from the usual 'Play far away' and 'I think the sax would sound good in Bobby McGee'