Wow - the charity night on Friday was immense - five live acts comprising of three musical performers and two poets blew the crowd away and raised another £278.63 for the charity total pushing me very close to the ultimate £4k target.  I'm holding off adding to on to the total just now until it is banked with some other money I have raised in the last week or so (ie from eBay sales which are just being invoiced and a donation from my in-laws to be) so that next time the total is updated it should be above the £4000 mark.

Back to the night and I would like to thank everyone who attended the evening, I'm hoping that you all had a great time and weren't too shocked by some of the nights more interesting events.  Thanks to all of the following...

• Billy Bates (despite the bar tab he ran up on my behalf, Billy if you are reading this do feel free to contact me and repay the £13 into the charity total won't you),
• Crazy Vincent who were the nicest guys you could hope to have performing and who played an amazing set, I hope to hear from you guys again!
• Granger - the final performance from the current line up who blew me away with their cover of Stiltskin's 'Inside' - one of my favourite songs ever! 
• Robin "I'd Rather be a Nudie than a Hoodie" Cairns who had the place in stitches with his performance
• Jenny Lindsay - who, despite being delayed in Wales for four hours made it to the gig to perform in style for the charity.  And who recognised me from my appearance on Reporting Scotland. What a girl!
• Dangerous Dave - what a man, behind most of the fundraising, got the acts together (before and during the event), kept me sane and donned a dress to snog Granger's Baker to raise even more funds (you guys paid £67.13 to see those two guys go at it!)
• Merchant City Music for supplying last minute mic stands and Sound Control for the mic clips and Bacchus for providing the venue and being everything I could have hoped for from a venue - even going as far as to donate all their tips from upstairs for the night to the total and making a donation out of the till! Thanks to all of you!
• Sara for manning the door, and giving me hugs when I needed them, Smins for putting up with her boyfriend committing the above act, all you guys for coming along to the gig and donating so generously and most of all ....
• Me - hehe

Photo's will follow once transferred from various cameras - if any of you have any to share - do email me on robintreksperu@googlemail.com and I can get them online.

Cheers!

Robin