After last Sunday's disappointment, I decided to give The Man Of Kent another go this evening. The chalk board outside proclaimed live music - "Offaly Spice at 6pm". Offaly Spice? Could have been anyone or anything. According to a subsequent google search Offaly Spice is a greyhound (whelp date 6th September 1999...total prize money 190 Euros). Not the same Offaly Spice it turned out. This isn't surprising, because it lives in Ireland and it's a dog. Anyway...erm... what I also didn't know, because I am ignorant, and this may have given me a more reliable clue, is that Offaly is a county in Ireland. And this Offaly Spice was a cheerful Irish woman in a black dress belting out songs by people like Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and Robert Palmer ("Doctor, Doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of swine flu!!").
The pub was busier and a lot more enthusiastic about Offaly Spice's dynamic singing than the photo below suggests. And...is it just me or does the angle make it look like she's a very, very small woman perched on the rail of a barstool serenading the man at the bar?
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