And on drums is the man who almost stole the show – ex Comsat Angel Mik Glaisher. He’s a big guy – looks like a cross between Lyle Lovett and Tommy Cooper with a face etched with anxiety – until he starts playing. As befits his size his drumming is huge – it is, if you will, lead drumming as opposed to rhythm drumming, filling in powerfully behind (no, in front of) Weaver’s guitar. The result is enthralling.

Ok. Well, the only really disappointing thing about the evening was that we weren’t able to pick up a copy of the band’s new album, Silk Ripped Dress, which has sort of just been released, and features Whiskyfun favourite Richard Hawley on the track ‘Monday Man’. It’s a sign of the difficulty CLW seem to have in getting broader exposure (I read somewhere that major labels thought they were “too old” to sign) is a record company with apparently little or no distribution and a very out of date website – and they don’t even show up to gigs with CDs to sell. But you will be able to hear them on the BBC’s Mark Lamarr show on 16th February. We heard some of the new stuff – including the impressive opener ‘John the Revelator’ (shades of Ian Siegal) and ‘Before the fall’ in addition to ‘Paper houses’, ‘Your enemy cannot harm you’, Howling road’’, ‘Zombified’, and ‘Stump Jon and the owl’ among others from Nowhere. All very good indeed – and I suppose the resultant twenty four hours of partial deafness was partly a consequence of having over a month off. Blimey! Anyway – you know how it goes – if you like your blues deep and dirty with a dose of menace, then give these guys a listen, go and see them, and buy their albums (if you can ever find them).
- Nick Morgan (photographs by Kate and Nick's iPhone)

Kate's Chicken Legs Weaver photo album