This Thusday night (March 19) at the Kentish Arms (yes.... I said 'Kent'-ish Arms, not what you were thinking) in Stanley Street North Adelaide, John Schumann will begin a series of concerts to try to put an end to boring Thursday nights. For a little while, anyway.

According to the press release: after requests from Adelaide fans, John and Kat Kraus from the Vagabond Crew along with their mates from Adelaide band Acoustic Juice including The Preacher Denis Surmon on bass will be playing a short season of intimate shows at the Kentish Arms in Stanley Street, North Adelaide.

"Intimate"...  feck off!  I know what feckin'  "intimate" means. Last time I was "intimate"  with someone I got a cold sore I couldn't get rid of. Intimate my feckin' arse. But I'm not going to tell you any more about that evening. No way! I'm going to tell you more about what John Schumann telled me on a piece of cyber paper.

“We had a great time when we did a bushfire fundraiser at the Gov a few weeks ago," Shooey said,  "So, we thought, we can either have one more boring Thursday night in Adelaide at home – or we can play again.”

“We’ve chosen the Kentish because it’s close, street car parking is pretty good, the venue is light and airy and can seat about 150 comfortably. We start playing about 8.30 and finish around 10.30. Songs from Redgum, Etched in Blue, Lawson and Behind the Lines,” John said.

“And why are we doing this?" he asks (you're supposed to put a slighly inquisitive expression on your face now). "Because we like playing together. That’s reason enough."(Now nod your feckin' maggot-bowl; you've been told why and it all seems so fecking obvious, don't it!) "Anyway," Shooey said, "...what else would we do on a Thursday night?”

Don't answer that!

But it will feckin' cost yer. It's $25 at the door. Or you can ring the Kentish and they’ll take a booking over the phone. But make sure you feckin' turn up if you make a booking, all right? Or I'll feckin' nut yer!

The Kentish Arms Hotel is at 23 Stanley Street, North Adelaide. Phone: 82671173 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it And they have a website which is not as good as this one but it's ok if you like that kind of thing: : www.kentisharmshotel.com

 Photo below: John Schumann and band lilve at the Governor Hindmarsh.