Another consummately professional performance by Big Mac's once again to a packed house.

There are plenty of fans of this band around but quite why they're so popular is a mystery to me. If you like your soul bands safe and souless then this is the band for you. Only the bass player stood out for me as someone trying to inject some life into proceedings.

The sound was far better for this performance than the last one, maybe because the hall wasn't quite so full, but it was certainly crisper this time around.

Mac and the girls sang pleasantly all night and the dancefloor remained pretty full until the end.

As I've stated on many previous ocassions I'm a big fan of Soul and Motown but regrettably Friday night's gig left me feeling uninspired and rather empty. Shame !

Best wishes before I forget to one of our longest standing regulars Tony Carpenter (Carpy) who's not been too well lately. However, I'm told that he's on the road to recovery after a real scare and we look forward to seeing him back rocking and rolling in the near future.

Mike, fair play to you all, you have diversified and brought some alternative music other than rock/blues to the club over the last few months, so how about trying a Reggae band, a good covers Reggae band doing classic Marley, Sly and Robbie etc should bring in a sell out crowd.

I’m told there is not such a group in South Wales, but since you regularly get bands from the Midlands maybe you could track one down.

What do you think?

I'm working on it mate.