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Aw man, that’s ace, thank you 😊

This makes me so sad. May you RIP @SamIAm

Thank you kind sir! I will claim all of the credit for it, even though all I did was plonk the bass on the recording 😄

Just back from gig #2 of the weekend. Quite sleepy. Gig #1 was Wednesday’s Child - pub rock covers - in Dorking last night. We were under-rehearsed and the guitarist was far too loud onstage, so I came away feeling quite underwhelmed with it. I think I played ok, was fun switching between a standard tuned bass, a C-tuned bass and a fretless 5 - kept me on my toes! Need to go through all my patches and sort them out though as I noticed some hideous volume differences between some of them 😳 Gig #2 was Youths - original pop/punk - in Canterbury this evening. We opened the proceedings and played a blinder I think. Bass sounded ace - my first ever bass came out (a Vester Jazz with replacement Schaller pickups), through an HX Effects using the SansAmp clone, into my Elf and the headliner’s Markbass 6x10. First time I’ve played a long scale bass in anger in public since about 2015, was fun but I remember why I made the switch to shorter scales 😄 We were celebrating the release of our first single from our debut album - feel free to go check it out 😎 https://music.apple.com/gb/album/bumpy-single/1807891026 https://music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B002H5YZCU/the-youths

That’s both good to hear and then a shame! Hopefully we’ll be doing more dates Oct/Nov time in other places!

Sweeet! I’m trying to get @MacDaddy’s band on as support but I’m not in charge, I just plonk the low notes 😄

Katy Hurt is releasing her debut album in May, so we have a UK “tour” for mid May to mid July Current dates: 18th May - Dart Music Fest 25th May - Square Tower Portsmouth 30th May - Chapel Arts Centre Bath 5th June - Hot Box Essex 6th June - Fiddler’s Elbow London 8th June - Gullivers Manchester 12th June - Acapela Cardiff 20th June - Greystones Sheffield 6th July - Country in the Park Poole - TBC 12th July - Rodeos Birmingham And then my original pop/punk/emo band Youths will be releasing our debut album in May too. Only one date so far though, Cambridge at the end of May. Thats it so far

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Bloody hell

As one commenter says, it feels like he’s sorry for being caught, not for doing it. And he’s missed the fact that the Spotify release isn’t his music. Where’s the popcorn?

Gorgeous!

Did a gig last month and the support band was a drummer and a singer. Everything else was on track. It was weird! We are contemplating using tracks to add some of the more esoteric instruments which appear on the album as it’s cheaper than creating a 10 piece band with musicians appearing for a song or two… 🤓

Ewan made me buy me several ACGs over the last 10 years, he is an evil genius.

I concur

Two different BF cabs here too - one Two10S for smaller/quieter gigs or those with big PAs, and a Super Twin for when I need to be loud or there’s no PA support

PS - these two being my favourites https://acguitars.co.uk/project/051s-j-type-4-30/ https://acguitars.co.uk/project/049s-j-type-4-30/

Most of Alan Cringean’s short scale creations are 19mm and 24 frets if you can stretch to one https://acguitars.co.uk/for-sale/