Gonks at the Chrissy Party

The world famous gonks performed again last week at our work Christmas party.  It was a hoot.  Who are the Gonks you ask?  If you haven't caught up with the phenomenon,the Gonks are the band I play in.  We started up in 2005 after a discussion one lunchtime between me, DB and JD in January that year.  We thought it would be a good idea to put a band together out of the pool of sound engineers and play at the next Christmas Party.  So we did.  The Gonks were formed and this was our 5th Christmas together.  No one has told us they are sick of us yet so we keep playing.  And we had a bunch of guest artists join us (other staff members of RN).  I'm the bass player.  And there were no cools shots of the band taken this year for me to show you.  They were either all out of focus or the lights were in the way.  So instead enjoy the photo of me and LM acting up for the camera.

Set lists were -

Overkill (Lazlo Baine)
Is She Really Going Out With Him (Joe Jackson)
Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)
Money (Beatles)
Total Control (Motels)
Ode To Billy Joe (Billy Jo Spears)
Delta Dawn (Helen Reddy)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen)
The Times They Are A Changin’
Dancing In The Street




Come Up & and See Me (Steve Harley and Cockeney Rebel)
Man, I Feel Like A Woman (Shania Twain)
The Ballroom Blitz (The Sweet)
Besame Mucho (Luis Miguel Armando Manzanero)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
I Got You (James Brown)
Living For The City (Stevie Wonder)
Take Me To The River (Talking heads)
Stray Cat Blues (Rolling Stones)




Boys In Town  (Divynils)
Don’t Stop (Fleetwood Mac)
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Black Magic Woman
Play That Funky Music
Knock On Wood
Pretty Flamingo (Manfredd Mann)
Better Be Home Soon (Crowded House)
Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer)
La Bamba