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I’d love to, his family do sounds like an absolute hoot. However, word is that we’ve been booked for next year already. That said, after I’d left a couple of aggressive, coked up boys came up to our guitarist and said, “You were shite!” Our guitarist is a big lad and, unbeknownst to them, a former kick boxing champion. He just said, “Don’t do it,” and they took his advice. After that, I might just kick it into touch next NYE. What is with some folk, you’re perfectly entitled to not like us, but don’t come up and actually say it. The mind boggles 🤦🏻.

Just home from the dreaded Hogmanay gig. We have to do this as a 3 piece as our keyboard player always spends NYE with his extended family and fair play to him, I’d rather spend it with them too. Not a terrible gig, always interesting playing with more space in the mix, but I do miss the keyboards. As ever, some idiot insists on trying to speak with you whilst you’re playing, always a request that you can’t/won’t do. However, this was balanced out by a nice guy, who was interested in my bass (he was a guitarist, it turned out) and he looked up my bass, a Maruszczyk, while we were playing. Who says bassists never receive any attention? Anyway, we played OK, although the drummer is really starting to become clumsy (lack of home practise I suspect) and the groove often takes a break in these instances. The thing that gets me is the amount of folk repeatedly going to and from the toilets, with only moments spent in there. Who are they kidding? Perhaps they had bad colds, but I suspect the red nostrils were courtesy of Colombia’s finest marching powder. I’m not a prude, but a little moderation wouldn’t go a miss. Glad it’s over, only 365 days until the next one. At least it was an easy drive home. Rig as per Saturday’s gig earlier in the thread, with the side by side setup, which worked a treat again. EDITS: OK, maybe it was because I was tired (I wasn’t) but just read my post to find numerous autocorrects that made it seem that it was me on the illicit substances. ‘Have to’ became autograph () but more amusingly, groove became ‘groom’ .

Hogmanay shenanigans imminent. Going sideways again. Same rig as Saturday.

I made another year sans nouveau basses (I don’t know why I’ve gone all French). I hope to not repeat the performance for 2026.

The very reason I learnt to tie my own bow tie, although not Daniel Craig necessarily (I learnt way before Casino Royale).

Works here.

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I think it’s a Musicmaster with that bridge and control plate.

Needle & the Spoon - Lynyrd Skynyrd

What is this might? Intriguing 🤔

This could be a theme for the photo competition.

The smaller ‘head’ section has 2 up-firing speakers, which seemed to help with on stage monitoring. That said, when stacked, it’s not exactly very tall, so I suspect that there’s some floor coupling going on too, with this arrangement.

Mmm, a Waluszyczk.