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A Glastonbury Garden Party
Read more: A Glastonbury Garden PartyI have fond (if hazy) memories of Glastonbury ’93 and ’94 and was delighted to receive a booking for a Glastonbury themed garden party back in March. More often than not we’re looked after by our clients. There is usually the offer of some food and a beer or two for which we’re always grateful.…
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A Party at Yellow Arch Studios
Read more: A Party at Yellow Arch StudiosAs musicians we often have to say yes to jobs far in advance when they’re offered to us and that is just a given. Juggling family, work and gigs sometimes means that we can’t always roll out our usual line up. As a pianist with his digits in a number of musical pies, our drummer…
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A Wedding at Wortley Hall
Read more: A Wedding at Wortley HallWortley Hall is a beautiful stately home that Wikipedia says, has its origins in the late 16th century. Located just outside Sheffield in the village of Wortley it makes for a lovely wedding venue. We arrived early to get set up and found that we had a stage. In some ways this is great because…
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A Wedding at Thornbridge Hall
Read more: A Wedding at Thornbridge HallWe finally played the gig we thought was never going to happen. Back in 2019 we were booked to play the wedding of Holly and Mark at the spectacular Thornbridge Hall just outside Bakewell. The original date was in March 2020 but this was postponed and moved to October 2020. August 2020 rolled around and Mark…
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Grenoside Beer Festival 2021
Read more: Grenoside Beer Festival 2021Toast returned to the stage for our 5th consecutive appearance at the Grenoside Beer Festival. The crowd is always enthusiastic and everyone is there for a good time. There are usually about 10 different beers on and plenty of gins to choose from. This all helps fuel the slightly anarchic feel of this event. This…
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Farm Fest VIII at Lawns Farm
Read more: Farm Fest VIII at Lawns FarmFarm Fest is a live music festival at Lawns Farm near Wickersly, on the outskirts of Rotherham. It was not an event we’d heard of before but we were delighted to get asked to play in the 5pm to 7:30pm slot. The event takes place in a large field where we found a stage, a…
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A 30th Birthday Party at Cutlery Works
Read more: A 30th Birthday Party at Cutlery WorksIt’s been a very long time since we played in front of an audience. Back in February 2020 we had a full diary and a good thing going on… then everything got cancelled. In many ways we were lucky, aside from not being able to play and we all had flexible jobs like regular shnooks.…
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Grenoside Beer Festival 2019
Read more: Grenoside Beer Festival 2019September came around again and with it the Grenoside Beer Festival. TOAST headlined for the 4th year on the bounce. The set list look like this: Set 1 Song 2 Fell in Love with a Girl Dreaming Of You Learn To Fly Alright Common People She Moves in Her Own Way Roll With It Mardy…
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The Three Magpies
Read more: The Three MagpiesIt was a pleasant sunny afternoon. Always nice to be able to play a gig with your sunglasses on.
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Greystones Primary HSA Fundraiser
Read more: Greystones Primary HSA FundraiserGreystones Primary School asked parents for fundraising ideas so I suggested that TOAST play a gig in the school hall. Tickets were £5 and included a drink. The bar was well stocked with everything but ice and mixers. It being a warm night and dancing being thirsty work, this led to some over indulgence. I…
















