I got their just early enough to have a couple of pints before the band came on stage. They started off with The Last Climb from For All We Shared, and I love it's very Pink Floydness, this led into more folky Caught In A Fold from Passengers (where I first heard them) and the stomping Broken Glass from their recent Storms Over Still Water CD. They kept the tempo going with Winter Mountain - inspired by the mountain Glen Coe - off of The Spirit Of Autumn Past, more space rock than anything else.

The gorgeous Heather Findlay then introduced the ten minute epic Evergreen. This time seemed to fly by, such was the power of this song! Next was a song I was unfamiliar with, thou I later found out that it was Out Of The Inn from their Lord Of The Rings album, it was a nice Celtic type song, a bit Gaelic for my liking, but a necessary breather and time to get another beer in. the song kicked off while I was at the bar however, and I felt that I had missed out on something!

Dark Before The Dawn came next, giving us all the chance to clap along to its powerful and heavy beat which was quickly followed by the equally heavy Answer The Question. Heather again introduced the next song, the relaxing Heart Life which was performed brilliantly!.

The next song they played was the mysterious and stomping Something In Between, followed closely buy the chilling Rhiannon and Nowhere To Hide - once the girls had found out which mics there were supposed to be using! Heather again had a go on the mic, something about Coronation Street that I didn't catch, before belting out Never The Rainbow, with it's Jon Lordish Hammond bits (I think!)

Then there was a break while we sang Happy Birthday to Brian, though the birthday cake had its candles blown out by the stageside fan. We sang it well, we sang it loud and we sang it proud! And also to Andy cos they'd missed his birthday last week! We sang that one quite well too.

The gig got going again with Shindig, which meant another beer break for me. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it is an ideal time for a trip to the bar, isn't it! Anyway, they were still playing it when I got back, well, just finishing it before starting Spirit Of Autumn Past, so I had impeccable timing!

Then Brian said that they were going to do a couple of new songs, which were Candle To The Sky and a brilliant Carpe Diem. Candle... sounded very classic Floyd, and I loved it for sure! Carpe Diem is a total classic too, and I love the Great Gig bits at the end. It makes the hair on the back of my neck rise.

Brian dedicated the next song to (I think again - maybe too much beer by this time) his Dad. It was Heroes Never Die and it was great!

The band departed after this to rapturous applause, aned eventually came back on stage to perform We Come And We Go. Then they wiffled on about their Christmas Special Gig (ok, I know I'll be there...) before finally finishing with Mother Nature. I say "finally" not because I was bored, but because the poor beggars had played for well over TWO HOURS! Yet it hardly seemed like any time had passed when the Twin Peaks theme eeked it was out of the PA, and we knew that that was that!

So for my first Mostly Autumn gig, I was treated to a supersize-me show. Cracker!!

by Peter Fitzwilliam