Lunch at Allen's calling it a day with final tour

Ian Thomas remembers the first time his pal Murray McLauchlan asked him to join him for a one-time series of shows. “It was Murray who, 24 years ago or something like that, was asked to put a song circle together, and he called me about it. I’d become something of a studio dweeb — doing a lot of film scores in those days, and enjoying my family — and Murray said, ‘I’d like to put four people together, but I think we all have to play and sing on each other&rsq