Thursday night, I went to see North Sea Gas at the St. Lawrence Performing Arts Center here in Portland, Maine. The show was great, there was a super mix of rollicking, rowdy songs as well as slow, sad songs, the stories and jokes in between songs were funny and the guys seemed to be having fun, and the tickets were reasonable. The problem? Only 22 people in the audience. I don't think it had anything to do with lack of interest, though. More like lack of publicity on the part of whoever booked them. But at least it was up 10 people from last fall... I have a huge amount of respect for the professionalism of the band, we few, we happy few, got one hell of a concert! Mac did a beautiful job with Cairn o' mount and The Dark Island, and they all had us in stitches with The Job Song, to name just a couple of songs from the evening. I just feel bad that there were so few people there.