I was going to make things easy for myself this evening and stay local and early - back home by half six. The Man of Kent pub on Nunhead Green always (that's ALWAYS) has live music on a Sunday night at six o'clock. From the previous Monday, Sunday's act is written in chalk on a blackboard fixed to the side of the building. Acts with names like...well, I've forgotten exactly, I need to pop down and have a look...but things like "Double Trouble" or "Frank Singing". Anyway, yep, for "always" read "always apart from the third Sunday in November". So I went over the Green to The Pyrotechnists Arms which "often has music on a Sunday night, but not on the third Sunday in November" and followed that with a trip to Boho Bar in Lordship Lane which "usually has music on Sunday nights, but not when it falls on former footballer Gus Poyet's birthday".
I ended up at the open mic "Lazy Sundays" night at The Alexandra Pub at Clapham Common. When I'd rang them before driving over I was told the music would be starting at seven. I got there at seven. A stage was set with two mics, but although there were fleeting glimpses of blokes wandering around with guitar cases over their shoulders, the music didn't start until a quarter past eight. Port drinker Nigel of Bermondsey, played guitar and sang about Millwall football fans (he doesn't like them) and a motorbike accident on The Old Kent Road for a small, but rowdy crowd, whose "Lazy Sunday" probably started around ten o'clock on Saturday evening.
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