March 6th. 2008.... GRINGO Regular visitors to our club, Michael and Victor again produced a performance to keep their audience happy all evening giving our members plenty to dance to or singalong with.
Lots of Classic country songs were heard tonight, amongst them were Merle Haggard's, Today I Started Loving You Again, Don Williams', You're My Best Friend, Jim Reeves', Four Walls, and Blue Boy, a song I cannot recall hearing on the circuit before, the same applying to George Jones', Colour Of The Blues, Jerry Lee Lewis', What's Made Milwaukee Famous, Willie Nelson's, Funny How Time Slips Away, Waylon Jennings', Good Hearted Woman, It's A Heartache, a hit for welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, Dave and Sugar and more recently the trio, Trick Pony and Hank Thompson's, Wild Side Of Life.
Lovers of new country music were also treated to several songs including the Mavericks', Dance The Night Away and There Goes My Heart.
As usual Mick and Vic included some Irish and British Numbers. Amongst these were, Heaven Knows and the traditional Irish roof raiser, Wild Rover.
To round off another super evening, the lads gave us the lovely Eric Clapton Ballad, Wonderful Tonight, confirming their popularity once more.
Cyril Insley
October 26th 2007.. GRINGO Michael and Victor make regular appearances at our club and tonight's show was equally enjoyable as any of their previous concerts.
Immaculately attired, they started this evening with Willie Nelson's, On The Road Again, as usual there was a good mix of old and new country songs all of which brought warm applause from our members, and lots suitable for dancing and / or singing along to.
Amongst them was Mel McDaniel's, Louisiana Saturday Night, Kitty Wells', Making Believe, Merle Haggard's, Ramblin' Fever and Branded Man, John Prine's, Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness, ( a hit for Kim Carnes), Bobby Bare's, Tequila Sheila, John Denver's, Back Home Again, Jimmy Buffett's, Margaritaville, and Hank williams, Take These Chains From My Heart.
I was pleased to hear them include the hit song from the brilliant, O, Brother Where Art Thou, The Soggy Bottom Boys', I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow.
Such shows as tonight's can only confirm Gringo's popularity here at the Northern Renegades.
Cyril Insley
March 8th.. 2007 GRINGO
It is eighteen months since Michael and Victor ( alias Gringo) entertained us and as before, this well dressed duo gave us a lovely, lively concert of Country songs and several Irish ditties, all of which were popular with our members.
The Line dancers particularly enjoyed and filled the floor to George Strait's, Down Louisiana Way, The Bellamy Brothers, If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, Alan Jackson's, Summertime Blues, and a couple of Mick's own compositions, The Rest Of My Life, and Whiskey and Women,
Western partner dancers responded en masse to Hank Williams', I Can't Help It, Alan Jackson's, Living On Love, Merle Haggard's, Mamma's Hungry eyes, David Houston's, Almost Persuaded and Freddy Fender's, Before The next Teardrop Falls.
Several Irish songs also got a good reception. These, in particular, were Phil Coulter's, Donegal Danny, Johnny McEvoy's , As Soon As I Can and Runaround Angel and Mick Flavin's, Home To Donegal.
A couple of songs not heard often I especially liked were Cindy Walker's 1994 hit, When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again and Jimmy Buffet's, Why Don't We Get Drunk, And Screw.
Tonight Mick and Vic gave us a non-stop show of forty full length songs, all appreciated by a very responsive audience.
Cyril Insley
October 6th 2005 GRINGO We are always pleased to welcome tonight's duo at our club as this Cleethorpes, Lincs. couple can be relied upon to put on a good show. Since their last appearance, however, lead guitarist, Vic has been incapacitated with Dupuytren's Contraction which inevitably prevented his playing the guitar but he is now improving and able to work his fingers again. We all trust he will make a full recovery soon. Despite this, they were able to entertain in fine style and keep all factions of the audience content all evening. The dancers responded well to Tom Russell's ' Blue Wing', Roy Orbison's ' California Blue', Steve Goodman's ' City Of New Orleans' and other favourites including ' Daddy Frank', ' Memories Are Made Of This' and ' He'll Have To Go' etc. Several songs not often heard here included Dwight Yoakam's ' 1000 Miles From Nowhere', The Drifters ' Save The Last Dance For Me', Jim Reeves' ' Distant Drums', Freddy Fender's ' Wasted Days and Wasted Nights' and Colin Raye's 1994 hit ' Man Of My Word'. We were treated to lots more songs to sing along to also, and as expected, Mick and Vic gave us a most enjoyable concert. Cyril Insley April 14th 2005
The Grimsby Duo Mick and Vic, were making a return visit to our club following their debut here last August, and tonight we had another good mix of traditional and classic country songs and a couple of Irish ballads for good measure. Very few of their earlier show's songs were repeated and once again there were loads of numbers to dance to, listen to, or even join in with as one chose. Partner dancers particularly enjoyed Freddy Fender's ' Before The Last Teardrop Falls' Pete St John's ' Fields of Athenrye', Hank Locklin's ' Please Help Me I'm Falling' and Merle Haggard's ' Silver Wings' Line dancers filled the floor for Tom Russell's ' Blue Wing', Sammy Kershaw / Lorrie Morgan's ' He Drinks Tequila', Bellamy Brother's ' If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body' and Hank Thompson's ' Wild Side Of Life'. Audience participation songs included Foster and Allen's ' Bunch of Thyme', Robert Mitchum's country hit ' Little Ole Wine Drinker', Merle's ' Oakie' and a shortened version of Monty Python's ' Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'. Mick gave us a humorous break with a song he attributed to David Alan Coe ' A Dog Named Rover', a little risque ditty, and Steve Goodman's ' You Don't Have To Call Me Darlin, Darlin My personal favourite was a song new to me ' Somewhere Tonight', a number one hit for American group Highway 101 in 1987. Once again GRINGO gave us a most enjoyable and varied programme to keep us entertained all evening long. Cyril Insley August 19th 2004 Gringo
Tonight's visiting artistes were making their first visit to our club. Indeed it was their first visit to this part of the country and if the reception and applause they received here is anything to go by, it won't be their last. Mick and Vic, better known as ‘GRINGO' hail from the Cleethorpes area of Lincolnshire and appear mainly in East Anglia and the North East. Mick plays acoustic rhythm guitar and perhaps takes most of the vocals.On visiting the Grand Ole Oprey while touring the U.S.A, he ventured onto an empty stage and sang, Don Williams' 'She's in Love with a Rodeo Man ' little knowing an appreciative audience was sitting in the gallery.Vic also vocalises and plays lead guitar, citing Joe Satriani as his idol he would love to emulate. They have performed together for four years or more, though Mick has been involved in Country Music for twenty-five years, whilst Vic has been associated with various aspects of popular music. Their programme consists mainly of well-known traditional songs, which suited our audience and members. However, they produce a few less familiar ditties - Ernest Tubbs' ' Thanks a Lot ' Johnny Cash's 'Understand Your Man' which incidentally brought some excellent guitar work from Vic, Travis Tritts' 'Whiskey Ain't Workin' Any More' and 'Lord Have Mercy on the Workin' Man'. The variety in their programme was spot on to keep listeners,singers and dancers more than content all evening. As i said earlier i'm sure these two jovial but professional and well presented entertainers will be in our area again; so look out for them if you want a good show. Cyril Insley Top |
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