Thanks for the thanks 2. All of it was to share the experience – Nick – hope you don’t feel like I hijacked your site! All done with the purest of intentions to promote your good self.

LoneH – I didn’t want to record the whole of the songs for legal reasons & that people might take advantage of them with bootlegging etc. & having not heard many of them started when & where it felt right & of course when not taking pics or notes – or handing the man a banana!.

We bought the mermaid & the lighthouse cd on the night & enjoyed it immensely – the couple of songs he played on the night from it were much better versions & Nick’s voice was so clear & strong at the gig & had an added timbre that we’ve been left wanting.

So dear Nick – put out an album SOON … please. Keep it simple with your (new & improved) voice taking the fore. A recollection?

Dear Mel – it was good to meet you too – hope you will publish Kite soon, would love to hear it again. Glad you didn’t die of fright! would’ve felt terrible then

LoneH – I remember when I bought an album on the basis of one song heard on the radio & it was the only slow love song on a collection of hard rock songs! aaarghhh …

I watched a couple of the videos last night -will look forward to getting to them all gradually (dial up). The first 30 secs you captured of that Who song is as pretty a thing as I’ve ever heard. Well I guess that comment should be directed at Nick -the first part of that is nothing short of an aural delight. Nothing wrong with the rest of it by any means but that part that Racquel started recording at sounds very beautiful. It is the type of song that if I were only to hear only that snippet on the radio I would track it down and buy it.

The last song I did that with was Finally Over Blue by the McClymonts, a while back now. This version of it hasn’t loaded for me yet so I don’t know how it stacks up compared to the album one. The only other one out there is some sort of remixed thing. I heard the very last part of the song on the radio once and bought the album on the strength of that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk4yrnjL0ls

Big thank you, Racquel.

Just in case you didn’t notice on old comments there’s youtube video clips of most of the songs link below to first one … more to come tomorrow …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYM_66hh18c

then just link on auntie racquel for the rest of them (I’m just finding my way round YT uploading etc)

… enjoy … Tracy (imagine me doing happy shy smile now as I use your name for the first time)

How nice to see you!
I have decided we are going to be great friends. Hope you don’t mind. ; )
Incredible photos. Just incredible…
Love how you started off with ‘Did we remember to put the cat out?’ Hysterical. Loved your camellia out front, buds and all. And your gardener husband. Looks like just the wonderful gentleman you described. So glad you were able to go. And thank you so very VERY much for thinking of me and all of us that couldn’t be there in person but were very much in spirit.

With warmest regards,
Tracy

they were taken with love & shared with love & am so glad they were received with love …

just been through the photos a second time myself & corrected typos & added (cheekily) to comments as I remembered other little events. Also learnt to turn the order round so that they run in chronological order.

Well if a decent turnout happens at Cookham we’ll be looking at pictures of us with Haircut 100 in the spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!! squeal !!!!!!!

I realised that it was probably good I didn’t go to Cadogan as I would’ve exploded (messily! there’s a lot of this mind, body organism!) with excitement given my ecstatic nature when recognising the first words of Love Plus One – I nearly squeezed Anna-Marie’s arm off.

So as I said to Nick last night, I arrived a Haircut 100 fan & left a Nick Heyward fan.

****** Bravo Nicholas for shining your bright beautiful light *****

I’m with Helen on the post box and also like the frosted leaves. I’ll try to upload some of my pics but my photography skills are not up to your standard! xx

Helen, if Nick plays the Firestation again you have to come down, it was an excellent venue and a great night. xx