Another Lovely Wedding

Last weekend the Lovely Brothers played the wedding of our friend Steve Reynolds and his lovely new wife Laura. It was a very relaxed reception, and everyone seemed to be having lots of fun. Honey Tree played first (Steve plays bass), who were good as always, although the hired PA was rather rubbish. We came on rather later than was probably advisable, by which time most people just wanted to dance. It took a while for the audience to warm to us, which wasn't helped by the terrible sounds we were making (I blame the PA and lack of sound check). By the end everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, dancing on the tables and singing along. Except that is, for Gail Porter (who is going out with one of Honeytree), who spent most of the gig heckling us, and uttered the immortal line, "I beg you to stop singing, you sound terrible." There was absolutely no irony in her voice, she truly hated us! Thanks for that Gail, that's going straight on the quotes page! I asked the audience if we should stop at that point, but most of them seemed to want us to continue. Especially the bride who screamed at the heckler to shut-up and danced like she was watching ACDC. Not being used to such an abusive attack I did stumble through one of the songs slightly, but we regained the power of rock for the last song, where Ben stood atop an oversize barrel for his final guitar solo and proceeded to violently bash his insturment as if he were trying to smash it off its strap, which he eventually did.