Alan Price - Barn Theatre, Oxted - 9th March

It's not all country walks and being out in the middle of nowhere in Oxted, oh no, we do occasionally get Alan Price playing at the Barn Theare.

We invited Ali and Craig to come with us to see Alan play on the Sunday night, then thought it would be a good idea to make a weekend of it. This in hindsight was probably not a great idea.

We headed out on the Saturday evening for marathon drinking session, visiting the 4 pubs of Old Oxted (Old Ted according to the grafittied signposts.) During the very drunk long walk home, at 2 in the morning, in the rain, I think we knew the next day would be a slow one.

The theatre is literally a barn, lovely and cosy. As we sat up in the rafters, we settled in for a night of stories and songs from the 60's. And boy can Alan tell a story...

He played the songs we knew from The Animal days, "House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," and plenty I'm sure I would have recognised had I been 20+ years older.

We came away with a signed copy of his new album and the remnants of a hangover.