This is to see how many people might be interested in an afternoon song session in the Nags Head Lower Stoke ME3 9RD (UK) on Sunday the 28th December - might become a monthly session at least till the festival season starts.

The original pub on this site is mentioned in Hogarth's diaries but this building is late 1800s. Wood floor, good acoustics. Plenty parking - pub carpark and public carpark (free) immediately over the road. Public transport not a useful option but believe there might be a bus from Chatham that takes well over an hour 'cos it goes through all the villages on the peninsular and runs on the 32nd of months with a "Q" in the name. No football on the TV that Sunday.

I count 18 suitable session seats/stools for people swinging guitars or other instruments, and a good amount of other space/benches.

Landlord offering to put some real beer on - the previous incumbents let the beer engines and pipes go to rack and ruin so it is likely to be a small barrel or couple of large boxes served under gravity. It's a Sheps pub but he may be allowed/able to have non-Sheps guest beer. Probably some food like roast spuds or something too.

I think the plan is really to run afternoon, but if enough people want to play on into the evening I don't think there would be any objection.


It is a matter of whether we would reach critical mass - if not enough people are going to want to do it it will not happen 'cos it's not worth doing if only three or four people turn up, but my guess is that by then people will be going stir-crazy from Xmas and gagging to get out and folk!


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