SICbass

I played in a band many years ago who did a lot of show with a lot of energy. On a rare occasion where we failed to get an audience to react as we hoped, one of the lads commented saying, “What do we have to do, set fire to our heads?” From that day forth, the cry onstage if we had a difficult audience was, “Brrrrrring the petrol!”

This might seem like a silly question, but my point is seriously intended. If your supposed to play to a crowd who are seated in a separate room anyway - why not perform in a room in Northampton and just send the signal (including video feed) through to a room in Gateshead?

A nice gesture (perhaps?) but in practice - about as much use as a chocolate fireguard. The model is financially non-viable. There may be exceptions where it could work but these are a handful at best.

Suffice as to say that a wide bore is not for the faint hearted.

I love that colour. The headsrock reminds me a bit of my Sire.

“Guaranteed to leave no stern untoned.”

Can we agree on the term “chair” - things may otherwise become confusing and potentially very messy indeed.

15 Hz and under around 105 -dB – instant brown note.

Aaaaah, back in the days when we were allowed to stand next to each other. That looks like loads of fun.

A shortish, quiet spoken bloke - just comes in twice a week for 2-3 hours.

Address including postcode? Asking for a friend.

In all likelihood, yes. Best not.

Absolutely love this song and his whole concept

I am completely reliant on the income. Last week we played four shows in Norway. It was nice to play again and the audience were very appreciative, but the promoter took a serious hit-audience figures between 20 and 60. At the moment I’m trying to work on a new source of income. It has been very difficult to do this with the kids at home. Here in Germany they go back to school in the second week of August. Let’s see what happens then… Theoretically some playing work should start for me again in mid October, but, for reasons obvious, I’m sceptical as to whether that will happen.

Or Jennifer Batten?

Wrong thread 😉

I‘m in. Weight please? .....hat. On a side note, many breweries in Germany with this kind of bottle top, now use plastic ones where the “rubber“ ring is a single piece of plastic fused to the top “nipple”. Thus making it impossible to do the old Grolsch trick.

At the moment I’m in Norway. We are in the middle of a four show run doing top 40 stuff in a beer tent in a camping park. The original brief was to keep it loungy/low-key so as not to encourage dancing. The audience is tiny (maybe 20 people) - they’re really into it but remain seated. Due to a very low infection rate, Norway doesn’t ask people to wear masks. A bit unnerving really but it is great to play again.

That’s more like it.

Absolutely ace… Oh God, not another YouTube rabbit hole for me to disappear down! Seriously though, thanks for posting. Great stuff.

That’s just great. And so up beat. Love it! Someone mentioned Electro Deluxe earlier. Here’s one of there’s that also has such a positI’ve vibe.

I've built a career based on that.

To be fair, it is really lovely there. The owners are a couple who are super nice. We're well treated, decent pay and a very appreicative audience so it should be nice. The only issue now will be bagging that parrot and getting it back through customs... now where did I put that folding cage?

Well, we're off to Norway on Wednesday for four gigs (Thursday-Sunday) in a tent. Regulations there are a bit looser than here in Germany - possibly because of their much lower population density and hence lower infection rates. The government website states that events up to a maximum of 200 socially distanced guests are allowed. Where we'll be, in Laerdal, is a small town at the end of a fjord where there's a caravan site. In all honesty I do have some reservations about this, but being as music is my sole source of income, what else am I gonna do? This may end up being the only work I do for the rest of the year.

Congratulations, how was it, playing again? Weird or a relief? I haven’t played since back in March. We‘re supposedly playing 4 days fron 16th-19th July in Norway. After that it’s anyone’s guess for the remainder of the year.