Two days at Colston Hall, great! One of the best venues ever, plus, I have friends coming. I’ve been performing here since the late 50s. It has a live, vibrant room so you don’t need much help with microphones on the drums. However, I was suffering from the change of heads, they weren’t responding as fast as I had hoped and I spent some time with Bunny tweaking and stretching the toms.

On the first night, Margaret came to the show with our friends Stephanie and Rod Wilcox (who we met in Portugal) and their daughter Louise, who is at university here.

It was also good to meet up with Peter and Pat Crawford who live in Bristol. I have written the music for all of Peter’s films on natural history for the last fifteen years and we have become good friends. Mike Lemmon, the camera man for all of Peter’s programmes, was with him and it was good to meet at last. I have composed music to his pictures but we have never met as he lives in New Zealand. After the show we had dinner and talked about the new project they are working on.

The second day in Bristol was spent filming inserts for part of the DVD we are shooting tomorrow in Cardiff. Warren arrived as he is musical supervisor for the show.

The concert that night was one of the best. The new heads are starting to sound good. Peter, Pat and Mike came to the gig for the second time. Had an early night as the next few days are full on as you will see.