Friday December 16 2011 - David Ford at Leeds Empire
I love special Christmas gigs and I love gigs involving lots of laughter as well as great tunes. David Ford always supplies the latter two but tonight is extra special. The video below sums it up to perfection. Basically, for this part of the show, his audience is invited to randomly select a cover version for him to perform. This is achieved by the shouting out of numbers that coincide with pages from a couple of big books of chords for pop hits of the last 40 years. In this way he is lumbered with performing Boyzone's 'No Matter What' and, later, the Queen/Bowie tune 'Under Pressure'. He pulls them both off with no little skill and oodles of aplomb. I'm thrilled to be in on one of the best kept secrets in British music and I'm looking forward to more David Ford in 2012.
