#St.PatricksDay next week, So it is Booze Boys...

Tim Wilson, entertainer extraordinaire

Way back in the early days of the Booze Brothers Band history, Tim Wilson (guitars) was a driving force of music and a bit of a drinking mascot for us all. His departure to Canada was a sad day for everyone in the band, and his farewell gig at Sutton Staithe was a bonafide classic. Tim was (and still is) an excellent musician. At the time he was in our band, he was also involved in several other musical enterprises, some of which gigged and others didn't.

Tim & Chris Wilson, original Booze Brothers acting up.

There was the Mighty FFR. (A pub punk band named after a 'Freshly Filled Rolls' sign in a local bar). There were occasional shows of his original songs, in the band Weevil, that had a handful of gigs here and there as well. The one interest Tim did have, that didn't quite seem to get out of the planning stage, was he wanted a big band of musicians to just meet in a pub and play Irish music. When he suggested it, we all thought this would be a splendid idea. The only minor glitch in this otherwise flawless plan, was that only Tim really knew any Irish songs! He had got into playing the banjo, and with a bit more time, I reckon we could have got the concept to work for us. He had even chosen the silliest Band name ever - Blimey O'Trousers.

New Pub set, old ideas for St. Patrick's Day

This had always made Martin chuckle, and we felt we could at least use the idea to make a video clip. At his farewell do, Tim proved himself to be a really entertaining front man with a great version of an old Irish tune 'The Rooster Song'. We were lucky enough to have set up the video camera on the day and I found the lost footage a few months ago. Having spoken to him since, he doesn't remember doing it, as we were all fairly plastered! The audio quality was quite poor though, but it's best we had. Having done a poem for Burns Night, we felt it would only be right to use the Rooster song recording for St. Patricks Day. In the brief time Tim was back in the country visiting family over Christmas, we collared him to record a few opening lines with his Brother Chris and the rest really just did itself.

On set with Tim, no superstar strop issues.

I was in the middle of the Pub Set rebuild, so it gave me a chance to try it out. I decorated the new Pub with Patrick's Day trinkets I got from Ebay, a few garlands and flags and just went for it. I cracked up more times than was necessary, but I finished it. Trying to mime along to the recording was really difficult as he didn't really sing the correct words and kept randomly talking to the audience.

The wife said, Honey - get that crap off the coffee table.

To cover the worst of my mistakes, I made a few cut outs of the animals to act out the song as a segway but Tim didn't sing the right verses in any kind of correct order, so it's a touch anarchic!

My monitor screen and the actual gig footage to mime to...

All that remains to be said, is it was all in good fun, so have a drink and enjoy St Patricks Day on the 17th March everyone!

Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone!!

Honey, we're loosing Money ooooh yeaaahhh......