Clarky Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) We have been having difficulties gigging as Rattlin Bone as the full line-up includes 14+ musicians and entertainers (clowns, fire breathers) - many venues can't take this and we are geographically diverse (from Scotland to the South Coast of England) so rehearsing has been problematic. To add to this, recently we've had complications due to quite major illnesses for a couple of members. So ..... ... we have launched a stripped down largely acoustic version with 4/5 members (guitar/stompboard/lead vox; sax/vox; trombone; DB/bass; sometimes souzaphone) as 'Voodooville'. Only parts of the Rattlin Bone setlist work with such a line-up so we are doing some carefully chosen covers and radical re-workings of other New Orleans, gypsy, jazz & blues songs (eg, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Taj Mahal etc) We've got a page set up on Reverb Nation which includes a couple of demo recordings (St James Infirmary, couple of Tom Waits; albeit these have drums on) as well as some Rattlin Bone stuff: [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/vville"]http://www.reverbnation.com/vville[/url] Hopefully, we should have some more gigs/fun with this line-up as well as doing festivals over the summer with the larger Rattlin Bone. Already have an offer for a gig in Germany in September I'm pretty excited by this Edited January 29, 2012 by Clarky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynepunkdude Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Top man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) [attachment=98591:1327268901_Voodooville_LIVE.jpg] [attachment=98593:1327268963_VOODOOVILLE12_Bar_Club.jpg] [attachment=98592:1327267518_VOODOOVILLE_600x600.jpg] Edited January 29, 2012 by Clarky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggy Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Nice one mate. Will be keeping my ears open Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Excellent! Nice one Clarky, I'll get to see you live soon I hope, just so damn busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicman20 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Sounds good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Sounds great!! I shall definitely check it out when I get home tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 How come you're standing so far away from the rest of the band in the first pic? Perhaps it's that famous Clarky GAS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 What happened was that we played as a foursome in the tent at the Upton blues festival - Neil on trombone, Karena on vox/sax (middle lady of three in photo), Wily Bo on vox/guitar and yours truly. Then for the encore we did Tom Waits' 'yesterday is here' and a bunch of the Rattlin Boners in the audience came up and joined us onstage - was very cool. Oh and I had eaten garlic the night before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Nice one Mr C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 [quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1327919836' post='1518620'] Oh and I had eaten garlic the night before [/quote] i guess it figures that your swamp blues collective while already including zombies, would also have a few vampyres! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Looking good, Clarky. Upcoming dates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 6 September in Hamburg at the USB Festival any good, Jack? We've only just gone live with promoters so starting to get offers. We will be playing the Gloucester festival on 3 June but thats the only other definite so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 [quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1327923879' post='1518703'] i guess it figures that your swamp blues collective while already including zombies, would also have a few vampyres! [/quote] The backing singers are called The Vampirettes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicman20 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Just had a listen, love it. Really sleazy bluesy stuff. Is this, in your opinion, a high in your bass playing career? It seem like your guys and girls could go pretty far doing it Very unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Thanks Gareth, it's certainly a high for me after a death metal band that foundered as soon as we got decent gigs, due to drummer quitting, and then a punk band that routinely played to audiences of less than 30! More seriously, I really like the music we now play and have learned an awful lot about musicianship, recording etc. Whether we go places remains to be seen - as you know the odds are heavily stacked against it - but it will be fun trying. Our Portugal mini-tour last year was tremendous Spinal Tap type fun and I imagine the Hamburg gig will be a laugh too, especially if we can get some gigs either side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Good stuff Clarky, might have two possible gigs for you in May if you guys have space in your schedules, and the stripped down version would work well. Give me a call sometime and perhaps we can discuss? C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Nice one mate. OK to call tomorrow night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Yep, have PM'd you provisional details C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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