The Brunswick & WESTBOURNE, swansea

Yesterday was a sunny, dry evening which gave us opportunity to visit these two city centre pubs in what will be our penultimate Thursday evening dance out. We started at The Brunswick which keeps good ale and provides a quiet road outside to dance upon. We were able to muster ten dancers and two musicians who performed to several people from the pub who came outside to watch. 

​We danced British Grenadiers, Banbury Bill, Valentines, Vandals, and the ever bouncy Nightingale!

The Westbourne is a short walk away and has a large apron of closed road to perform on, plus it sells Ale in the form of Abbot. It also has lots of light in the area which was to prove useful, and a very good chippy, but more on that later!

We performed a set lasting thirty minutes and which included Sheriff’s Ride, Badby Black Joke, Hunting the Squirrel and Valentines and also Bonnie Green Garters which concluded our set. It was lovely to be told by a group of people that they had seen our tour broadcast on Facebook and had come down to see us and enjoyed the performance. Means so much to us getting that kind of feedback. 

We stopped dancing as darkness cast its veil over us, and we drifted, funnily enough, to The Brunswick where we were roped into a Music Quiz where we gave a good account of ourselves, scoring 32/40! Well done Team Sweyn! Alex D brought back some fantastic chips from the Chippy to provide much needed sustenance. Great evening for the side!


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