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Why I was so happy to curate celebration of a very special venue

IT was more than 27 years ago that I played my first gig with The Battlefield Band at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival. I had turned 17 and become a full-time professional musician. I remember the feeling of walking on to The Queen’s Hall stage for the first time like it was yesterday – it looked and felt absolutely enormous back then, and a tad frightening.