GUEST Meriken: if you are not a Mudcat member, my email is boatband(at)cwctv(dot)net. Do get in touch, I would like to talk. Fortunato: will PM you re Washington. Everyone: many many thanks from me and Kate for all your effort and ideas which are helping loads. Having to do this at short notice with no time to set up any gigs looked a nightmare, but everybody's help is turning all that round.

In a few messages time I shall start a part 2 of this thread, as my system does not let me readthreads more than 41 messages long. Keep the ideas coming, and we hope to meet some of you very soon.