Pub landlord plans 14 gigs in 14 venues with band

David Danby, who runs The Vine in Tutbury, Staffordshire, is fundraising for Midlands Air Ambulance with his band Last of the Summer Vines

A pub landlord is preparing for a bar crawl with a difference when he visits 14 venues for 14 gigs over two days with his bandmates.

David Danby, who runs The Vine in Tutbury, Staffordshire, is fundraising for Midlands Air Ambulance with his act, Last of the Summer Vines.

Making their live debut, the band will play half-hour gigs at a different pub every hour, on the hour, between 14:00 and 20:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday.

"We just thought, let's raise a bit more funds for [the charity] and let's do it in a really, really, good enjoyable way," he said.

He added: "Air ambulance do a major, massive, massive role as everyone knows."

The band, which has been together for about five months, would be "strumming very hard and very loud" he said, with covers of The Kinks, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Status Quo and Neil Diamond among the songs on the set list.

"We've always had live music in all the pubs that we've done, me and my wife," Mr Danby said.

"This is the very first time I've done my own live thing. I've done lots of open-mic nights but this is the first time I've assembled a band together."

All of the pubs are in or near Burton-on-Trent, with about 10 to 15 minutes travel time between each, he added.

The tour will start and finish at The Vine, with buckets for loose change in each one.