“You know, I don’t like straight lines. The problem is that most instruments are square and music is always round.”

So spoke Tom Waits, and he should know. But I’m here to tell you that, in Croydon, music is Oval!

This week COPSE will invade the Oval Tavern, so there’s nothing on at the Hall.

Keith S has organised a visit to the Open Mic night at the Oval Tavern. Come along to enjoy a drink or two with your COPSE pals and some good music in an informal setting.

In case you missed Keith’s email last week, here are the details again:

As mentioned last night, next weeks club night (10th), will instead be at Croydon’s “oval tavern” for their weekly “songbird” open mic session 🎙🎸🎵  for mostly local singers + songwriters which normally starts about 8pm

I’ll be getting there about 6.30pm where three adjacent tables of four have been booked from 7PM on a “first come, first served basis”, so try to get there early or you’ll have to find a seat at the back somewhere.

if you haven’t been there, the pub offers “reasonably priced” food  served until 9pm + there’s a good selection of real ales, ciders, wine + coffee, where all details should be shown on their website.

“the oval tavern” is at 131 Oval Road CR0 6BG + about ten minutes walk from east croydon stn down cherry orchard road, where oval road is second on the right + the pub is near the end on the left.

if you have any queries, please let me know.

Keith