FireBird Blog

It’s carnival time and FireBird are pleased to be playing Swanage Carnival again this year.

If you’ve not been before, this really is a great event, lasting a full week and covering such diverse entertainments as a full-on Carnival Parade, The Red Arrows, Fireworks and of course Live Music, for which Swanage is becoming well-known.

During the week, collections are made, the proceeds of which go to support local charities, a full list may be found here: http://www.swanagecarnival.com/goodcauses.aspx
Many of these organisations depend on charitable donations so the members of FireBird are pleased to donate time and performance to such a worthy cause.

This year, FireBird play on Sunday August 1st and will be taking to the stage at around 10pm, straight after the spectacular fireworks display.

We look forward to seeing as many as possible there and wish the Carnival Organisers every success for this extraordinary event.

Kelly conjures up a crowd from nowhere!

Every so often a gig comes along that really buzzes, everyone’s on a high and the evening goes in to that mental list of great gigs. But unfortunately the converse is sometimes true, a gig that gets filed in the memory bank for all the wrong reasons.

We call these Chicken Wire gigs, from the Blues Brother’s film. Read the rest of this entry »