WalMan

Got back from two nights and an overnight stay Friday at Trading Boundaries to see Raul Midón on Friday and Peter Jones / Tiger Moth Tales on Saturday. Wen with wifey, one of the guitarists in my main band and his missus and we made a short weekend of it. Two very different nights stylewise but both great evenings - the first just man / guitar / voice & percussion The second started with a short 'acoustic' one man set from Peter Jones and then a longer set with the Tiger Moth Tales band. Very accomplished and English prog.

Bought the EBS Unichorus from Dave. Quick and easy transaction and arrived in great condidion

That’s always been my downfall 🤦‍♂️🤣

A busy few weeks of gigs coming up: 15/11 - Raul Midón 16/11 - Tiger Moth Tales 24/11 - Lifesigns All at Trading Boundaries, Sheffield Park 1/12 - GUN at The Brook, Southampton

Make sure you have a bail out route this time!! 😉

It’s certainly easier than the appliance from a couple of weeks ago 😁 Said appliance may be pressed into service again for my dep with the punk pirates next March

Years ago we'd regularly stop for a burger or kebab on the way home. There was also one gig where the WAGs used to head off and get an order in at a curry house while we packed down. Said curry house even gave us a Christmas card one year as it was a fairly regular out of town gig for us Nowadays it's a spin straight home, forgoing the MaccyD's drive through, and cheese & beans on toast

Probably. He hails from your neck of the woods originally I think, possibly a bit further on

Great fun last night. Still a guitar down and I’m in a aircast for another 5 weeks but got through fine. Arrived early as our sound guy had another gig on so we had extra to do and to make sure we could get everything connected and working. The pub was quiet to start with, but that was largely due to the earlier arrival and it filled up towards start time, and on through the evening (there was a big firework display on just down the road). I think that I need a new cable for my IEM”s as they were cutting in and out, but then again I could also probably do with a better system all round so I was back to old school with one plug-in and one out for most of the evening. Generally played okay with a couple of alien abduction moments for each of us through the night that we got through without major car wreck, and they crowd were well up for it singing and dancing all night. So all in all a pretty good session. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AVHmGogpi/?mibextid=UalRPS

This afternoon I had a session with mates I have known for getting on for 50 years now, were in my first band(s) and the drummer in many more afterwards. Guitar bass and drums got together in a country band playing working men’s clubs with an older bandleader as teenagers and then morphed into a spiky new wave originals band. Current vox was our ‘manager’/roadie/van driver and instigated the recent get together just before lockdown happened culminating in a support gig for my main band the weekend before the world stopped in 2020, and has got together on and off to make some noise, do a couple of gigs and generally have a laugh blasting through our back catalogue. Haven’t managed to get together for a while, but today was a day for some noise 😁 Banged through the ‘set’ and it was all pretty tight despite the gap. All good fun to get together with mates, have a laugh and make a row. We played together enough back in the day and are not yet completely senile so can get through most glitches that occur with a look or a nod that might go through a weird jam to get back on track, but I love it 🥰 A gig may happen though vox remains a weak link. The Wal came out to play, which doesn’t happen often nowadays, through my usual pedalboard [TU3 -> CE20 -> SkarBassOne-> Origin Bass DCX -> MicroThumpinator] and into the studios bass rig. Sounded lovely where I was sat. I have yet to hear recordings taken.