Wed 2025-06-04 (Sooki Lounge)

Lloyd Spiegel (Belgrave - Mitcham) 
Coffee and a muffin for breakfast at Dimmocks

Weights at "lunch time" (3-4pm)

I picked up my "softer" contact lens to try out

SOOKI LOUNGE, BELGRAVE

Lloyd was fantastic at Sooki Lounge in Belgrave & hilarious as per usual

He played with (for about half of his stage time) a Canadian guy, Charlie A'Court, who is more Blues/Country. They said they like to tour internationally together. Similar age to me

He was also a hilarious story teller. Steel string, and really digs in

It was an older crowd mostly. They were reminiscing about a similar venue out that way "back in the day"

Apparently, Lloyd is from Croydon. There was a dinner, Carol, we met who has been watching him play since he was a kid. She told us Lloyd's mentor was Geoff Achison. And Geoff's was Dutch Tilders

(I told her she needs to go check out Alister Turrill for some lapsteel guitar - who's mentor is Lloyd)


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