The night started off close to the gig in the Three and Ten pub at the Old Steine with a group of work mates and some random friends of friends. This was the night that we had been talking about for weeks and had been telling our work mates about for months.
It had all been building up to this, the pressure was mounting and our reputations were on line. What if our work friends didn’t enjoy Mean Poppa Lean? We would be outed as people who don’t know jack about music!
After taking our Mean Poppa Lean virgins down a few wrong turns we get to the former Joogleberry, now called The latest Music Bar, there are band members Christian and C-Dogg to welcome us in, how lovely, a band who personally welcomes in excited guests!
Drinks in hand and places set with me actually on stage with the band. We are all ready, ready for the best band I have ever witnessed to come and make us scream the words only they can make us scream: MEAN MEAN, POPPA POPPA!
The gig has got to be the best I have ever seen them perform. Christian was on top form with his singing and really getting the crowd involved, C-Dogg looking good playing his guitar, mostly on the floor, Grills rocking it on drums and Danny strumming away on bass. As per usual, there was a little surprise half way through when a horns section make an appearance with their brass instruments, one trumpet and one trombone bringing out a different side to the Mean Poppa Lean funk machine. Brownie points to anyone that can name them, I forgot!!
I even got to sing a line to one of my favourite songs “Gemma, what do we eat for breakfast?” And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?
Could the night have been any better? I doubt it! Was I to be outed by my colleagues as a person who don’t know jack about music? Not tonight!
Will Christian, C-Dogg, Grills and Danny Bass hit the big time? Definitely!
Long live Mean Poppa Lean.
Words: Gemma Muckdoodle (Blunted Competition Winner)
