Friday November 28th 2025
Hopefully I’ll now be able to return to the weekly blogs. Last week while you were enjoying yourselves down at Ffordd Las, I was watching multi millionaires urging people who could ill afford it to shell out £20, albeit for charity (ok, I switched it off).
Last night we were treated to our special guest, Steve Tilston. Steve hasn’t been to the club for about 20 years. Time has been fairly kind and, although he’s gone grey, he still has a fine head of hair and, I suspect, all his own teeth. He also still has the charisma and the voice. Guitar playing is also every bit as good.
Forty five minutes of excellent floor spots got the juices flowing, before Steve’s two 45 minute sets.
A scouser by birth, he had a misspent youth, learning guitar when he could have been out with his mates playing footie and trashing phone boxes.
With years of songwriting behind him, he obviously has a large back catalogue from which to choose. Lots of newer songs, but he was never going to be able to leave without playing “Oil and Water” and “Slip Jigs and Reels” (this with ARJ on accordion). How does anyone have the vision to write a song like that? For the benefit of Birthday Boy Silas, this is what a 10 shilling note looked like.
Guitar was predictably awesome. Much was played in standard tuning, but where “knob twiidin'” was involved, this was done quickly and unobtrusively. Perhaps a minor point, but excessive retuning can prove irksome.
All too soon, we were on the way home. We don’t have all that many guests at the club, but you must admit we make up for that with quality. Thanks to Steve for braving the Black Friday traffic (what a con that is!) to give us a memorable night’s entertainment.
John’s Top Tip…………..Start preparing for Christmas early by falling out with family and friends now!
Rugby to watch this afternoon on S4C – wonder how that’ll turn out? No club next Friday but we’re back on the 12th for a singers’ night and again on the 19th for our Xmas bash.
For those unable to get there last night, as Jim Bowen would have said, “Look what you could have won”.
Rhyl Folk Club 
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