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Mounting Crows

The Lutons

Ten Tears After

James Drown

Rank Williams

Ken At Work

Levellers last night in Basingstoke, first time I've been to a gig with silent stage. An odd experience. Sound was pretty good except for bass and I wonder if it was better further back as we were front row. Tiny speakers to fill the front of stage. Still had a great time and the band were excellent. Mid seventies EB3 was nice to see even if I couldn't Hear it too well.

Levellers next Sunday

Some phone footage of our performance on Saturday...plenty of room for improvement, most obvious being lead vox too low in mix. Psychosapien.mp4

First gig for my first originals band, been a year in the making after losing a couple of drummer on the way. Turned up expecting to play 45 minutes but were asked if we could do an hour as the other support couldn't play due to sickness. Bolstered the set with four covers, Psycho Killer, The Specials Concrete Jungle, Another Brick in the Wall part 2 and Tracks of my Tears. I'd describe us as a shouty punkish garageband so we caught a few out with Tracks but I loved it when Big Country used to do it live so we gave it a go. A good crowd and very responsive. I used Barefaced One10 stack with Markbass LM3 playing a Squier pj contemporary I bought from here last year. Everything sounded great from where I was and we had plenty of favourable comments after. Landlord wants us back even after we explained don't have a following.....which was nice.

Esther Phillips - Alone Again, Naturally

Really good practice tonight, our first go at a 40 min set for a support slot we have next month. Took my new zoom h2n to try get a half decent recording. Managed to get into the room with plenty of time to set up and checked the input signal was not clipping whilst we played at full volume, check. Throughout the evening I was constantly watching the mic lights to see if they we flickering, a warning the input was clipping, but no all ok....excellent. The practice went like a dream to be honest we even threw in a couple of numbers we'd never played together at the end, one being Polk Salad Annie...loved it.... our new drummer just lapped it up. We're a bit shouty screamy, punkish outfit and did it our way so I thought how lucky I was to grab that with the zoom.....Got home and plugged headphones into h2n....gotta say I was a tad disappointed. Note to self......remember to press RECORD.

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