Wahayyyy there me hearties … what a whirlwind of Bounty Hounding that was!
The exciting “double whammy” tour of fabulous Suffolk hostelries has come to the end (for now, although not for long!), and the Bounty Hounds are enjoying a well deserved rest on this lovely August Sunday in Bury St Edmunds.

No photos as yet, but it’s definitely worth writing that we’ve had the pleasure of playing live music in two fabulous Suffolk pubs to appreciative audiences who know a good thing when they hear it!

Friday night kicked off at the Crown & Castle pub in Risby where we were designated the “pool table area”. This worked well except for the fact that most of the band couldn’t see the “appreciative audience”, who, I can personally guarantee, were rocking their pants off in the bar! All went stormingly well really, except for a hopelessly lost song that we’d asked family to video specially - talk about pressure!!! Hope to bring you live footage of the ensuing confusion (but may be best left in the faded memory banks!)

Highlights included the spontaneous communal dancing to “14th of July” in the bar and Daniel “Fleet Foot” getting on down with Gill!

Never occurred to me previously that the reason I was feeling so confident related to the fact that the appreciative audience were only listening and not looking!

Saturday night at the Greyhound pub in Flempton was a whole different kettle of whales altogether! (Just an old Yorkshire saying if you’re wondering …)
This is my home turf (although Risby’s only a couple of miles up t’ road), and this time everyone in the bar was watching as well as listening. It took a whole lot of Bounty Grit to stop the old rattling knees and wobbly widdershins … I can tell you!

Apparently Steve dropped a stick quite soon into the set!…
“Oh no”, I hear you say, but not a single other Bounty Hound actually noticed until he told us. But there’s the rub … when people are watching as well as listening it all feels different. It certainly took much more time before I was able to relax, and that was definitely aided at the point when the audience began to dance, chat amongst themselves, whatever … beer (for the masses) always helps!

Goodness knows where that bit of “A Man is in Love” disappeared to, but “King of the Faeries” floated my Bounty Boat, the hairs on my arms shivered at “Innocent Victim” and the potentially misty opportunity to perform an encore of “Fast Lane Driver” virtually took the roof off! (thank goodness for Mel!)
Next time we just need to have an extra encore ready! 14th of July?? Hee hee!

To sum it all up - not a bad weekend’s work at all! Now put t’ kettle on luv

This coming weekend will see the Bounty Hounds on a “double whammy” tour of two fantastic local pubs, and we just can’t wait! Our final rehearsal on Thursday will give us chance to run through some of the set and add that extra polish to our brand new material before embarking on the exciting adventures ahead.

On Friday night (8th August) you will find us at the Crown & Castle pub in Risby, just outside Bury St Edmunds. The evening’s events kick off around 7pm with a BBQ and rodeo bull - yeeehaaa! The Bounty Hounds will be playing from 8 - 11pm so there’s plenty of time to catch our set and, although we’re hoping for good weather so we can play outside, if it’s wet we’ll be in the bar. This is a lovely little country pub in a beautiful Suffolk village setting, so well worth turning out for an evening of fun, food, beer and rocking folk rock!

If you come along and love what we do, or if you’re busy on Friday with some really pressing engagement, never fear, because we’re playing again on Saturday (9th August), just down the road at the Greyhound Pub in Flempton. This will be our second appearance at this friendly local pub, following our fantastic reception back in May. We’ll be kicking off about 8.30pm, and Rob & Maggie will be happy to serve you food and drinks whilst the Bounty Hounds serve up a tasty set of foot tapping tunes and a healthy portion of rock!

So no excuses really - two great country pubs, food and beer at both, live music from yours truly - see you there!