"ToI had arranged to leave work at 3pm on Tuesday 12th December, in order to in Cambridge by 4pm, to pick up Jane and be in Northampton by 5pm. This arrangement, however, backfired on me horribly upon hitting not one, but three huge traffic jams getting out of Cambridge, causing a very grumpy me to remark to Jane "they should drop a bloody bomb on this place"!!! Eventually we fought our way down the A14 and I decided to risk the speeding tickets and hammered down the A45 to Northampton at an average of 85 mph!!!

We arrived at the Roadmender at around 6.15pm, and were relieved to discover that the queue only consisted of about 6 people, so after parking the car, we joined the queue and realised just how much it was raining. We got absolutely drenched and it seemed an awful long time until 7.30pm when the doors were opened.

We went straight through into the main hall and positioned ourselves on the barrier, and soon after we were treated to Bowfinger, the first support band (not to be confused with Lowfinger, who were the second support band!). We have seen Bowfinger before and they have consistently good, punchy songs and a trombone player which earned them points are far as we were concerned, however, they do look like the Proclaimers!

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