Bitten By Monkeys

Live at The Unicorn Marden, Saturday 1st July 2012


I have a theory about bands that do the pub circuit, if you see a couple of over-50s fronting up then you are in for a good night. This is obviously because they are going to play the music of my generation and Bitten By Monkeys did not disappoint.

The old rockers in this band, Algie and Alan Hall, were backed by a couple of youngsters playing drums and organ. The young drummer, Tim, is the son of Alan and he came into his own with some superb improvisation when a power failure left the landlord scurrying around to repair the fault.

Bitten By Monkeys are old friends of the Unicorn and had their audience in the palm of their hands with an early rendition of Free’s Wishing Well, whilst any opportunity to hear Springsteen’s Born To Run is going to be highly appreciated by yours truly.

Enjoyable renditions of Unchained Heart, Sweet Home Chicago and Summer in the City kept the audience’s feet tapping until the night was brought to an end with a ballad, of which I can’t remember the tune, I really must take a pen and paper!

Algie signed off by telling us that if we have enjoyed the evening then we’ve been Bitten By Monkeys and we most certainly were.