May 12th - Day 24

One doesn't so much go to The Bedford pub in Balham as travel through it with a "Let's Go The Bedford" guide book. I didn't have the book and subsequently spent ten minutes stumbling through outlying areas of the pub before discovering the live music in a sumptuous room resembling a Shakespearean theatre. I was expecting to see someone called Sarah Russell, but she wasn't there.

Instead I saw Tony Moore, a passionate singer/songwriter/guitarist/person who rather improbably was briefly Iron Maiden's keyboardist many years ago. In the eighties he was in Cutting Crew. And in the nineties he added club management to his cv, including running the music side of this place since 2003. That's he in the dodgy photo.

2019 update. Tony still very much involved at the new look Bedford 

June 9th - Day 52

I lost my copy of Time Out this evening and couldn't remember where I was going, so I played safe and went along to the singer/songwriter evening at The Hootanannny. Not safe enough though. Tuesday nights are now "Swing Dancing night". I eventually ended up at The Bedford and saw Susie Clarke (Acoustic/Soul/Down-tempo says her myspace - myspace.com/susieclarke). (more not far behind)

February 1st - Day 289

And this evening, continuing my somewhat lethargic approach to all this at present, I played unadventurous and re-visisted The Bedford in Balham. Up first tonight (the only act I saw) was the soulful sound of Lucy Jane (keyboard and voice...and songwriter) accompanied by Paul on drum and Pete on double bass. Sounds like "If Norah Jones woke up in the Cotswolds to discover she was a ghost" says Lucy's myspace.