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Review: The Shed's Greatest Hits
Yorkshire
Evening Press 11.11.2005 by Charles Hutchinson
Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders - Photo: www.davidxgreen.com
UNDER a slice of moon and stars as bright as American teeth, Hovingham's queue for the Ryedale fish and chip van's weekly village run was longer than usual. What's more, the hiss of batter had a musical counterpoint.
There was Alan Tomlinson, serenading the throng. "Serenading" would be stretching it; whenever he hit a melodic stride, he stopped, his trombone more often gurgling, whooshing and whistling like the wind.
Tomlinson had passed this way before, on Steve Tate's village chip beat in 2003, and on Wednesday he returned as part of The Shed's Greatest Hits night of improvised music, his trombone slide fighting for control like Rod Hull's Emu.
One of each tucked away at £3.10, the throng was drawn to a second pied piper outside the village hall: Lol Coxhill, picked out by arc lights, hunched over his curved soprano sax in a council skip.
Stranger still was the finale to a night that had drawn Shed-heads from Oxford, Chesterfield, York and probably Mars too.
Shed impresario Simon Thackray - the Heath Robinson of Ryedale - has invented performance bingo or bingo bango, if you prefer, wherein Malton bingo-calling legend Mrs Boyes does her stern best to ignore the scat-drumming of Mark Sanders, a sound outlawed under the Punk Reformation Act of 1976.
The Shed's Greatest Hits - the grand finale! - Photo: www.davidxgreen.com
Full houses and a full Shed, fruit, booze and biscuit prizes, and suddenly Tomlinson and Coxhill added to Sanders' cacophony. "Well, I must be crackers," said Mrs Boyes.
Crackers? You would be mad to miss such delirium.
© 2005 Charles Hutchinson,
Yorkshire Evening Press
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