I've said it many times before (hic) and I'll say it again (oh no !!!) - the Midnight Pumpkin Trucks and Junction are two of the best bands in Derby, full stop !!! - To have them both appearing at the same venue on the same night is just awesome.

Haslams was alive & rockin tonight, and what a night was in store. Junction opened the proceedings with pure classic Rock. We've been privileged to see this young band from their early days and now they're well into their stride oozing confidence and musical ability. It's great to see the music from my youth (hic) being performed Live.

After a short interval The Midnight Pumpkin Trucks were on stage and oh boy were the crowd in for a treat ! - with a new lead singer fronting the band the Trucks let rip. People were up, the dance area spilled over further down into the room and Haslams was just rockin !

A good night, yes, but what I should say is that this was a truly fantastic night / gig - I know I always say that after the Trucks and Junction have played but believe me when I say that I reckon this gig topped all of the previous ones ! - crikey, can't wait for the next one then !

A big thankyou to everyone who supported tonight's Gig, thanks to John McNeilly and Adrian Summerscales for organising the event and also to Dave Blakemore for his part in arranging for the Trucks and Junction to be at Haslams. Thanks to Jon Tizard for running the auction and Thanks too to Ian and the bar staff who did a great job.

I've put a selection of the photos that I took from the gig on this page and I've also included a small movie clip (below) and here's an extract of an audio clip just in case you cannot play the movie.

The movie requires Adobe Flash Player 6 or above and is 2.38mb in size, the audio clip is a MP3 file and it's 464kb in size. 

Merry Christmas and have a great New Year.

Brian Leverington