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I work 3 days a week in an office and 3 days a week making music. Maybe you could get something part-time? Best of luck

awesome

I played West Street Live in Sheffield on Sunday thanks to our own @Johnny Wishbone It was a rare outing for my heavy band CreepJoint but hopefully we'll start to play more. In terms of the music we play it's definitely my favourite band that I play in. We seemed to go down well and it was tight, but that 30 minutes just flew by! I can't wait for the next one

I'm in 6 bands at the moment. They're all mates of varying degrees. The front man from CreepJoint has been a good friend since we went to the same playschool when we were 3! There's one guy in one band who does grate on me because of his negativity. There's another guy from another band who grates on me because he's such a bad player! But considering I play with at least 17 other musicians on a regular basis that's good going!

ask him what he thinks of the recordings. He might say "Yeh, I'm a bit too rigid, it's not grooving enough but I don't have time to practise"

Saturday night was a small festival in Derbyshire, probably 250 people crammed into a hall, I got to use my own kit for once and it sounded awesome. I have my new hi-hats and it was the first gig for them. A new piece of gear can really inspire you sometimes. Everyone was singing along and dancing and it was a brilliant gig all round Sunday night was at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham as part of Beat The Streets festival. We played it last year and it was packed with loads of young people out for a fully day of music and drinking. This year was much the same so a great atmosphere, great venue, sound, beer etc, couldn't have been better!

A fun video for one of the songs from our new album out in March. I play drums and recorded and mixed the audio

We did the 100 Club last Thursday (not been on here since) and it was ace. Every time we've played there it's been great but this crowd were really enthusiastic and considerably younger than we're used to. We played really well and went down brilliantly. A young girl even asked for my number afterwards, which was a lovely ego boost! Even if she did slink away embarrassed having learned my age

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no, not particularly, just wondered what it sounded like. It looks right up my street. I love 6 strings

Any recordings yet?

thanks! It's a Squire P into a barge concepts blender, just blending about half/half clean and a fulltone fulldrive. That goes into a boss limiter that's set fairly subtle, then there's a VST guitar amp and a VST chorus on that too

This is on Facebook so not sure if it'l show here but it's a quick jam with the best drummer I know, Sam Ogden, in my studio https://www.facebook.com/SamOgdenDrums/videos/371671366934429/

Friday night I played my favourite local venue again - The Rigger. It was packed, a great atmosphere, and loads of compliments afterwards even though I thought I was below par Saturday night I played the bigger Sugarmill with my "Disco Punk" band Dandelion meow meow. Our singer really stepped up her stage presence and this fuelled the whole band, everyone playing great, and plenty of audience dancing along. Great fun!

I guess I just thought that they might have been overstaffed based on the lies they'd been told so they might have been out of pocket. Of course venues should protect themselves but the fake promotions company and record company looked OK, not really comparable to secondary school kids I kind of admire it anyway. My first band made up a PR company and a record label, did fake websites and sent out press packs etc. It never worked for us but I'm sure more people looked at our "professional press packs" than would have listened to a demo CD sent directly from an unknown band

The venues were told that there had been X number of tickets sold in advance, and they staffed accordingly, but no tickets had been sold

Friday night was New Cross Inn in London. It took us 5 hours to get there. We played 40 minutes to about 30 people, then the headline act went on and suddenly another 30 people appeared. 4 hours to get home. We played well and the other bands were good to watch, but it was a very long outing Monday night I played with my weird funk/dance band in Chester. I was told it was a 3 band night and we were headlining. It was actually some sort of assessment for about 30 music students, who performed covers in various bands and to various levels of proficiency, for TWO HOURS. Predictably, as soon as we got on stage they all left, leaving us with an audience of 15 people. I got to bed at 2:30AM and was up for a recording session at 7:30AM. I'm hoping this weekend will be a bit more fun. Two local gigs Friday and Saturday

I play drums in a heavy band. A friend of ours is an awesome drummer, really world class, and he wanted to come and play 2nd guitar in our heavy band. We had him in for a jam last week and I felt like a total impostor sat behind the kit while he was in the room. I made loads of mistakes I wouldn't normally make

awesome! Can't wait for the full album!

awesome! That sounds like fun I'm surprised the guitarist produced, the bass is really up front in the mix, I love it!

No need for that, I buy most of what I listen to! I've just listened on headphones. I really enjoyed it, very different to the other stuff I hear at the moment. It has a bit of a throwback to the 90s with all the distorted vocals, samples, and electronic noises mixed with the band. I recognised the samples on "Light 'em All Up" straight away - I actually used them in an instrumental band I used to be in! There are some awesome bass tones on this album! Did you produce it yourself?

nice one, I'll get it from bandcamp and check it out, always like something new and different

I'm pretty sure our human ears are incapable of hearing 26Hz anyway, so I wouldn't worry about trying to create the fundamental

Nice one! Where can I hear the album? I googled "lutz band" but not sure which to click on

On Friday I spent the whole day recording a mate of mine on drums in my studio. He's only 19 and he's the best drummer I know. Limitless creativity, all the chops, but totally musical. Anyway, after 8 hours of watching him I was totally inspired to go and get behind my kit at The Old Town House in Warrington. We'd never played in Warrington before so didn't really know what to expect, but this venue is ace! Really lively crowd too. It wasn't packed but there were enough in for a good time. My mate had given me some of his sticks to try, really big things like 2B or something (doesn't mean a lot to most of you I know) and they were brilliant. I hadn't played that well in ages. I don't know if it was watching this amazing drummer all day long, or the sticks, or the venue or what but we were super tight Saturday was a small indoor festival and to be honest I wasn't really looking forward to it. I always like to play, but I know this venue and crowd a little too well. It was way better than I expected. The sound man looked like the same guy, but he acted totally different. He was chatty, friendly, and did a brilliant job! Not sure what was going on there but the sound was ace! The crowd with extremely inebriated, sang and danced, and we generally played well despite some very amusing distractions. I wasn't driving so had chance for a couple of beers, and I was home by 9pm! Brilliant weekend