Still stunned from our previous two gigs, Edinburgh and Carlisle we arrived in London and headed to Shepherd's Bush Hall where we met up with old and new friends.  

The festival kicked off with the premier screening of the Heep live on the Firefly Tour 1976, it was great to see John Lawton at his very best. This was followed by the auction of a Roger Dean print, what a bargin that was, we would have liked to have bought it but wondered how we would get it home. 

 An evening with Ken Hensley was certainly interesting!

 Saturday's festival club was really good which started off with the search for the biggest Heep fan,  we all felt confident after just missing out on previous years, but after only two questions answered I found I had missed out again.

Then the highlight of the festival club weekend was the accoustic set by Circle of Hands, who where excellent and had us all singing along, the lead vocalist Torsten llg has a wonderful voice and sang The Park very well! We bought their CD and would recommend this to anyone.......

 Off to the Empire, for the show we had been waiting for for a whole year, we wondered could this top the two gigs  we had seen the previous week, we needn't have worried!!!

 After White Noise had finished their set which we all enjoyed the chant began..........Heep were on stage and the whole place lit up, the atmosphere was electric. Blood Red Roses started it all and the pace did not ease off at all for the rest of the gig the sound on the night was unbelievable, where these guys get their energy from is a mystery to us all, I can honestly say in all my 30 years of going to Heep gigs this has to be the best one yet. After waiting for a whole year for this gig there is one criticism, it was over far to quickly as we could have listened to them all night.

 After the gig it was back to Bush Hall for the after show party and we did get to say goodbye to all our friends old and new.

 Roll on next year................ 

 Heepy Daze