WalMan

Sunday night was the prog covers. Drummer works late so only managed the last half hour but sounded good. Gave us a chance to work through stuff in readiness for his arrival which helped with the following. Keyboard player has had ancient keys that have been disintegrating for years and showed up with two much newer instruments so there was some tweaking of sounds and arrangements that has not happened before. Gave me the chance to say "can you not play the bass bit as well as the main part in Turn It On that opened things up and stopped trampling over me 😀 Last night was my main band. Ran through some songs that haven't been in the set for a while and tidy up the new ones. Considering some of the old ones haven't been played for a while - a couple could date back to lockdown recordings and videos - they were all still pretty tight and can be brought out for soundchecks in future.

I’ve been looking to rearrange my pedalboard for a while and wanted one that did not require Velcro on the bottom of pedals. I had looked at the Rockboard but ended up with this from Aclam. Arrived pretty quickly from Spain and generally seems solid construction and ok. Pedals are held on with the blocks that screw down to a track on the top. They are a bit fiddly to start with but I got used to them. The pedal side of the locks has a slight rubberised feel and holds the pedals down with pressure on either side. It remains to be seen whether/how quickly they might work loose, but a quick check every so often will hopefully keep that sorted. Palmer 8 outlet power supply underneath. I should have ordered the tray instead of the legs to clamp that down as I realised that they are too long and required the front legs on the board to be extended as far as possible so that the power supply clamps were not touching the floor. The MicroThumpinator is currently held underneath with cable ties whilst I sort out final bits for the power supply. Picked up a set of EBS solderless cables to make up the links and will put in a final one from last in the chain to the Thumpinator once I have everything else settled. The cables from the power supply to pedals are more than long enough so wound underneath and currently held with Velcro cable ties. All in all fairly pleased with the outcome.

Definitely this. Much discussion around song links, endings and any bits that might have gone awry at the previous gig If we make a mistake we look and laugh at each, safe other in the knowledge that it will have gone unnoticed by 99% of punters 🤣

I meant in recent years leading up to the end not now

Only that they were not taking everything out, which is of course their right in a private company, as might happen in other circumstances. That said there were no profits to take anyway, but there was a couple of mil in reserves IIRC

4, and there were no dividends paid so they weren't stripping it that way

I always have a laugh depping for the Punk Pirates down here. Fast and loud being the order of the day and ignore any flubs, just go with it 🤘🤣 Trying to get some time we can all make for another noise making session with my first band from 40 years ago. Started in WMC’s with and older bandleader and then morphed into a spiky originals new wave band when he left. We get together every so often to blast through the songs and reminisce 🥰🙂

Reasonable night that ended up as a pretty good one by the end of the night. Sound was good for the soundcheck but for some reason went off as the first set progressed. Second set felt much better and the punters were up for a good time and in good voice by the end of the night. Sets mixed up and vocalist spent the night linking songs with a fictional tale of progress of a relationship 😁 Haven’t managed to get my IEM’s fixed yet but went with one in and the failed one out rather than the KZ10’s as I didn’t really get on with them last week, and that worked fine. Stood at the urinals in the break waiting for my prostate to wake up and and a chap walked in and started enthusing on the set and memories of driving round in his youth playing songs from the set LOUD 🙂 Don’t think he recognised I was in the band as I was tucked round a corner not visible from the bar, so nice when he piped up with “this lot are a cut above your normal pub band…” “We try” says I 🤣

May already have been posted but looking at the accounts for 2023 it’s a tough old life as a music shop. £21M turnover £2M Reserves £1.8M staff costs £187k director fees Profit before tax £7,347 😱

Yup🤣

Not a bad night at an old haunt of ours back to the 80’s in various guises. Not packed but reasonable crowd who were singing along and picked up on the dancing front in the second set to end well. I misread to set and completely missed the cue linking penultimate and final songs and said “you missed one” to drummer - he hadn’t, I can’t read 🤦‍♂️🤣 Had to use the KZ headphones for IEM’s, having at last checked the obvious and realised why I was only getting the left side in my moulded plugs after updating to the Sennheiser system and trying all different settings on the transmitter and receiver to no avail. Plugged the custom plugs into my iPad and realised that the problem was there DOH! Took a while to find the right tips to get a reasonable seal, but got there for the second set. I still need to get the main plugs sorted.

Digitech Freqout maybe something like this? Guitarist in my new wave/punky band has one and it seems to work really well. There is a version of something similar in the Helix.

Barock Project @ Trading Boundaries on 8 May. Second date added so I can make it after all 😁

Nik Kershaw- Radio Musicola chilling on the balcony with a glass of wine on hols. All good here 😁

Indeed. My first attempt some years back went badly and put me off for a while, but PA advances and getting a set of custom moulded made all the difference. I really prefer to have the IEM’s - though I do still need to resolve the issues that came with upgrading the radio system recently, but it’ll happen