News - John Kirkpatrick

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5 Jul 2007:

SULTANS FLOODED OUT - PARKY SAILS ON SOLO!

On the way to Nettlebed Folk Club on June 25th, in full readiness for a gig with The Sultans of Squeeze, my car was overwhelmed by flood water on the road near Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire. It was one of many casualties in that area, and eventually we had to be towed back to a garage, a journey we only just managed to complete even with the extra height of a huge breakdown vehicle. By then it was far too late to make it back to Nettlebed, and poor old Mr Parkinson, who had had the good sense to go down to the vicinity the day before, ended up having to do the evening solo.

Congratulations to Parky on managing to complete his first solo gig for over ten years! And apologies to the few remaining JK fans in that part of the world who may well be feeling a little disgruntled at my feeble behaviour.

My car's been written off, and on the first trip out in the car I had to hire the next day I had a puncture, and was delayed by about two hours while I sorted it out. Cars, eh?