Bellowhead

End the layoff from campaign work with a visit to the Exeter Phoenix as a paying punter.

However, at least 2 of my electorate are working the Bellowhead gig and try my best to avoid talking about the forthcoming election. Succeed with them - but one of Rachel's colleagues tells me that she has just received the glossy Exeter Labour Party newsletter that we are having distributed by the "Exeter Times".

Bellowhead kick up a storm and have a wonderful time dancing around to the tunes. Superb musicians (all 11 of them) and fantastic arrangements (must look for that "Oxford Book of Disco Sea Shanties that Jon Boden mentioned). Most sublime moment of all - Benji Kirkpatrick's use of a wah-wah pedal on his bouzouki during "Unclothed Nocturnal Manuscript Crisis".