Don't mean to hijack your thread, but thought that you might be interested to know that New Scorpion Band have a couple of Shropshire rural gigs coming up, just before Christmas - they are:

Wednesday 21st December        Chetton Village Hall, Bridgnorth 7.30pm, Tel. 01746 789208 / 789257

Thursday 22nd December        Chapel Lawn Village Hall, Bucknell 7.30pm, Tel. 01547 530504

They will be doing a fabulous programme of midwinter and Christmas music from the last 500 years, interspersed with some brilliantly evocative seasonal readings - to make you laugh and, perhaps, cry! And they perform completely acoustically, with a full range of brass, woodwind, strings, free reed and percussion instruments (and voices).