Summer in May. And the Royston Club at the Roundhouse

We have had a spell of unseasonably warm weather, so that encourages me out into my garden

One cistus in full bloom

Wisteria coming to the end of its glory days

Snapdragons just starting to bloom

And an early butterfly

I only did one gig this week - the Royston Club at the Roundhouse. I was a little blind-sided by quite how popular the Royston Club are with a young audience. As I just buy albums and go to gigs, but  don't follow on social media or anything, I don't have much a feel for just how crazy popular they are with a totally different generation to mine. Basically it was an under 25 audience.

The relevance of this is that I turned up about 15 minutes before doors open expecting a modest queue, but instead there was a queue all the way down the road. I expect this if a band has a young teenage girl following, but the Royston Club are more of a lads band, so wasn't anticipating them to be so dedicated!

Anyway, it meant I could not secure a spot at the front, or anything like, but was left peering over shoulders. So just didn't even try to take photos like I normally do.

So there are the Royston Club. Top band if you haven't heard them. Lead singer has tremendous strong voice. They do a nice version of Waterloo Sunset in a quiet spell in the middle (sans most of the band members). The atmosphere is a bit like an old school football terrace (in a good way, I mean lads chanting support rather than fist fights!)