Urban Spacemen

Last night Miriam and I made the short journey over to South Petherton and the David Hall. This excellent venue housed in an old church was playing host to those great examples of British eccentricity  The Bonzo Dog DoDah Band now touring as Three Bonzo's and a piano.

This was the penultimate date on their 50th anniversary tour and they pulled out all the stops with their crazy brand of comedy jazz/blues/folk, in fact any genre of music that they can playfully twist.
The three originals from the early sixties band that hit the heights with Urban Spaceman and their residency on the children's TV show 'Do not adjust your set' showed amazing energy for seventy-plus year old's with their renditions of such classics as Canyons of your Mind, My Pink Half of the Drainpipe and Shirt, which included an audience participation section of the real interviews that the late Vivian Stanshall did in Willesdon High Street on unsuspecting members of the public.
The show was enhanced by various props that at times seemed to take over the whole of the small staging area and made the evening delightfully chaotic to the hundred or so fans who braved the dreadful weather to attend.

Bonzo's and Prop's

It was a real treat to finally catch up with some of my childhood hero's from the sixties and their links to the best of British humour like the Goons and Monty Python.