Yesterday was a tumultuous day for me.

I had been fasting for two days in preparation for a medical examination, my Crohn’s disease is causing me problems again, and I have been told that I am in need of more surgery… Downer. Anyway, I am not feeling too bad at the moment, so I will hold off as long as possible.

Following this procedure, I decided to go ahead with a long term plan to attend a concert by the fantastic Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.

I had been really looking forward to this and I thought that I might have to miss it, I am glad I didn’t, they are sublime.

The amazing Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.

In case anyone does not know what they are about, they are “old timey” bluegrass style country singers, who combine original songs with traditional and occasionally (as last night) hippie anthems. Generally though, their output is centred on hard times and depression in the USA.

Anyway, at the end of the first set, who should we see making his way out for a smoke but our “Great Leader”… One thing for sure, he wasn’t outside with the rest of us hoi-polloi…

DC caught in the lights like a lamped rabbit... (Note also in the check shirt in front, Robyn Hitchcock.)_

Here is a nice tune by Robyn Hitchcock accompanied by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings…

Robyn Hitchcock with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

A question occurred to me this morning, is Mr. Cameron deliberately engineering the enslavement of our people in the EU nightmare in some vain hope that we might start producing musicians of this calibre here? I can’t see anything like this coming out of X Factor m’self! Oh and while we are at it, I wonder whether David Cameron was listening when David Rawlings did a rousing rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”?

Anyway, thanks to my sister for taking me to see this, after such an ordurous start to the day.