Leonard Smalls

Sneaked an edit in...

Is it Villa Strangiata?

Is it Rock the Casbah?

edit: Bah! Put up the choon before my guess!!

I'd never join a band who specified:

1) what notes I should play

2) what type of bass I should play

3) which clothes I should wear

I want to be free to make my own choices about what sort of eejit I look and sound like!

2 hours ago, ianrendall said:

Perfect Houseplants.

I got slightly confused - not Martin France but Nic France. No less serous a drummer though!

Album was this: http://chivofunge.com/

No voting thread yet? At the moment I'm in line for a top 3 place!

3 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

You guys have started a fashion movement

We like the band to look like those guys who cause old ladies to cross the street, who get pointed out by mothers as an example of what will happen if you don't eat your greens/do your homework/take notice of Catechism classes, who hang around on the Rows in Chester spitting on American tourists' hats...

Just now, dmccombe7 said:

A good bass player needs special trousers. 

I've got some snakeskin ones on the way...

Quick photo from our recent Hereford gig highlighting special trousers...

Excellent! I'd give him (or her!) the gig!

Just now, Leonard Smalls said:

meow meow Chu-wah... 

Meow Meow, eh? Perhaps Pu$$y won't set off those darned filters!

My climbing partner's porn name is meow meow Chu-wah... 

I use compression all the time, for all sorts of stuff:

14 minutes ago, oZZma said:

whoever knows it tell us

I knows what it is but I ain't no snitch!

I helped crowdfund a mate's album. For £20 I got not only the pleasure of seeing his little face after recording with Dudley Philips on bass and Martin France on drums, but 1 cd, vinyl LP and download.

Which was nice!

Pics?

How much each?

Had a couple of hours spare, so here's a little ditty inspired by both the pic and one of my favourite grooves. Can you tell what it was yet? Might even do this with the band! (Features lots of Future Impact bass)

11 hours ago, Bluewine said:

especially when your physically beat up from playing on concrete for 4 hours

On concrete!

We played a gig once after 6 pints and a tab of acid and that was bad enough!

31 minutes ago, fleabag said:

If you didnt know, you'd expect there to be appalling condition, bikers batting the shyte out of each other, riding their bikes over tents etc.

I used to go to Kent Hells Angels' Custom Bike Show...

No trouble, loads of fun and we even got Slade, Saxon and Rockbitch (they scared even the most evil looking biker; luckily there were no police on site )

I've got 2 small ones coming up - Funk In The Forest and Down On The Farm.

Both are quite small (50 or so bands, no really big names apart from John Coghlan's Quo and Dr & The Medics at The Farm). Luckily, I can only stay for the time we're playing (though we would be camping in the artist's "quiet" area), and as both are quite close I shall be going in the Land Rover. That way I'll be able to drive straight to the stage no matter how much mud there is.

Nobody sounds like Bootsy!

We did a last-minute fill-in supporting Hereford punks Terminal Rage at a great little bar called Reet Petite in Leominster last night.

The venue is, funnily enough, quite small so with 30-40 people in there it was packed.

We slightly speeded up everything, ran songs together, had between songs banter only twice so squeezed everything into 39 minutes. Our brand of shouty girl with a very occasional and unexpected melody, plus Hendrix-ey guitar feedback, funky-metal drums and me on oft-slapped synth-wah bass went down very well. None of us even got stabbed by any of the spikey or Mohican-ed crowd!

Me at a recent gig...

1 hour ago, Twigman said:

Wave Gotik Treffen 2019 at Haus Leipzig.

Our guitarist was playing there on Sunday night in his other (better known!) band - The Cassandra Complex... There is talk of a Weeds mini tour of Ireland in the summer though!