Visiting Maxine Peake in prison

I've been to some gigs in interesting places but this was a first: Lancaster Prison!

Which is located in Lancaster Castle, which is where the Minx went this evening to see The Eccentronic Research Council with Maxine Peake. 

Before that though, we enjoyed support slots from Guerrilla Biscuits, with whom I'm currently talking to about a project (watch this space), and Kayla Painter, who was playing a new Stylophone Theremin (mine arrives tomorrow!).

Before I go on, I should say what a great venue the prison makes. As you can see from my Extra, we were standing on the first tier, just outside one of the cells. It was odd to look inside and think of all the people for whom that was, for a period of time, pretty much their whole world. 

But onto the main event, The Eccentronic Research Council with Maxine Peake. ERC is another Adrian Flanagan project, the chap whom we saw recently in his guise as Acid Klaus. 

Tonight, they were performing their album '1612 Underture', which is concerned with the trails and executions of the Pendle Witches, who were tried at Lancaster Assizes in the castle and then hung at Gallows Hill.

My one sentence review: The band were on good form, and Maxine Peake was excellent.