Leonard Smalls

Take it all back! I didn't use Luminlay at all - I looked into it and decided I was a) too mean b) too scared to drill into my Wal. Somehow my memory convinced me these were the Luminlay, but they were Glowtec Fret Finders. They work very well, and for £9.99 you can do a number of basses. And the dots aren't annoyingly raised, and the glue has so far held for over a year. https://glowtec.co.uk/fret-finders/

I use Luminlay on all my live basses too... They workwell enough for me to do widdly-woo all over the neck in all sorts of darkness. I tried the cheap'n'nasty ones from Amazon, but they fell off very easily.

Prefer this to Bob's version!

You'll be appalled to hear they were great at Rebellion! But Andy called our Raph a Flash W4nkr for playing chords around the 12th fret

Our next opportunity for racketeering is supporting xSLF in Dymock, between Ledbury and Gloucester on 1st September...

Bit of sculpted noise...

I spent our non-rehearsal last Sunday reminiscing about Rebellion... Hence a punky and slightly garbled musing on collective emotion and tribalism inspired by West Ham's theme tune! Starring me on vox, Wal bass (Ampeg plug in), strat guitar (Bias FX), drum programming (Via EZ), rhythm sequence (Universal PolyMax). Mixed in Doblys and rolled in Ozone 9.

We'll see you in the same place on September 10th for Going Feral. Sound should be better than for us at Rebellion!

J'aime Le Connery, c'était le meilleur Bond! 😁 Bienvenue etc

I remember seeing them at Liverpool Erics when they still had (silly) hair! They did 2 surprisingly good albums...

To be honest I don't go to pubs that have bands very often, simply because they usually play The Same Old Songs! I'd be far more into it if the covers were more interesting, but that by definition would make it less crowd pleasing... However, I'd be very happy if a covers band started with a Spizz Energi medlay (Red and black, SoldierSoldier,Captain Kirk), then something like He's Frank by the Monochrome Set followed by Something Better Change, Bowie's DJ and Boys, Funkadelic's Who says a rock band, and then Pumpme up by Trouble Funk. I'd be amazed too!

We got a completely unexpected and very positive review!!! https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/08/10/brightons-lambrini-girls-play-rebellion-festival-day-one-report/

Indeed... Though I'd have to search online for it. Unless it's on the USB doohickey that came with my 92nd hand) Helix.

Cheers! I think I need to go back to University to learn all the stuff it does!

If I'm recording using the Wal I use the 1/4" output to go through Helix or pedal board then into Fuscusrite interface, plus the Wal balanced XLR output to go to the interface as a clean feed. Lots of choices that way with Helix/Pedal fx I don't have as VSTs.

From 30 odd years ago, channeling the spirit of Joe Brown 😆

Indeed... But yours was nearer and I'm a lazy git! I know it was BRX with the original postulation, but as I was neither agreeing, nor disagreeing having tried both options I felt I could get away with it. And besides, you can't beat a good misquote 😁

We've got a PA and we only do one cover... But having tried to play gigs with our loud'n'shouty brand of punkfunk in places where there's no PA, we now have a policy of only playing places that are effectively dedicated music venues (*). If it's a boozer with a band playing most of the punters have gone along for a drink, and will tolerate music if it's something they know. However, in a proper music venue the punters (if any!) have gone specifically to hear new music. Which means no-one shouting for Wonderwall or The Birdy Song. It often also means there's no pay, unless it's ticketed or sufficient is donated. Last gig we did in Birmingham (2 hour drive) the promoter said "you're all going to get paid!". I said "excellent, how much?". "£18" he said. So I thought we'd easy cover fuel with our £18 each, but it was £18 between us! We all see it as basically a hobby - I don't get paid to go climbing or skiing either. Still, we've got 2 well paid ones coming up... Meanwhile, our (my!) PA sits at home for rehearsal use. * This means we have to travel - we're in the middle of nowhere so the nearest actual venue is at least an hour away.

A rare double bass pic! From Rebellion last week...

I did a gig a while ago where I split the signal from my bass, sent one lot to a Line 6 Helix and the other to my complicated pedalboard with 4 channels of fx arrayed round a mixer, then both board outputs went into a stereo rack DBX compressor and into 2 channels of a Crown power amp and 2 Markbass 4x10s. Sounded like the bastard lovechild of Bootsy, Lemmy and Bernie Worrell! Although once it had gone through the PA it was just an indistinct rumble, for so it is written in The Book Of Rock!

Still on a rock groove...

My band of 1987-1993 weren't at all like this, but we had the same van! Though ours was hand-painted matt black and owned by a hippy with a dog called Merlin... And there were no seats in the back, we'd just lie on top of the cabs.

I'd be far more entertained if these long running bands, whose parents probably weren't even born when the band first formed, evolved and tried new directions. Much like Spinal Tap and "Jazz Odyssey"!

This was one of the top bands for me at Rebellion this year... They kicked a$$! Currently touring UK.

It's far more fun than when the stag/hen parties or young farmers are in town!