The reason for our visit was to meet up with friends Jimmy, Sharon, Lou and Dave and what could be a better reason for meeting up than some live music, an Elvis tribute act. Elvis was in the building when we arrived going through a sound check and initial indications weren't great, he didn't look like him and didn't particularly sound like him but in his defence he was only warming up, I'm sure he'd be fine when he was doing it for real.
The selection of beers was disappointing, no real ale so I went onto Stella Artois. It was only Stella 4 rather than the full strength stuff so Shelley would only be getting a gentle slap rather than a beating !!
We catch up with both couples every few months so we swapped stories and watched Jimmy make hard work of creating his own Mickey Mouse (half a lager, half a bitter) as time after time he ended up with beer frothing up and escaping from his pint glass.
At times I had to do a bit of a double take as here I was in a C*nservative club sat next to v*lla fan Sharon. I made a mental note to myself not have too many Stella 4's as there was a danger than I might go hunting for a picture of Maggie Th*tcher to deface !!
Jimmy's drink wasn't the only spillage that night, the busty barmaid bent over to talk to Sharon and virtually fell out of her top. I nearly ended up with four black eyes, two from being hit in both eyes by her ample charms, and two more from Shelley for looking !!
Somewhat predictably when Elvis eventually did get going he was dreadful. I was going to fill up this blog with bad Elvis related puns but after discovering that he was only nineteen years of age I told myself Don't Be Cruel !!
The first half of the act was dominated by Elvis's early material and we all winced as he proceeded to destroy classic after classic dressed in his '68 comeback special suit with his bored mate providing musical accompaniment, er okay, he selected the backing tracks on his laptop !!
For the second half of his act he remerged with a change of outfit, he was now sporting a Las Vegas style jumpsuit.
The last time that there was something dressed all in white showing this little talent was me attempting to bowl on Bank Holiday Monday at Alvechurch !!
Amazingly his proud gran was filming the entire performance for posterity on her Ipad. Fair play to the old lady though for being able to operate such a technical device, my technophobe mother has trouble changing channels with the tv remote !!
Scarf wars nearly broke out part way through his act as Elvis wandered into the sparse crowd handing out scarves, Sharon's mate got one but Sharon missed out. We soon discovered why, Sharon's friend used to be Elvis's dinner lady at school so presumably fed him lots of burgers !!
We left before Elvis had left the building and couldn't help feeling that at £2.50 each we'd been done !!
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