Water for Dogs (Chris Sharman) @ Ryans Bar, Derby, 12th April

[Chris Sharman]

Evenin' (err mornin') all.

Water for Dogs make our first venture into the teeming metropolis of Derby (and our first paid gig - Hurrah!) on 12th April. We will be accompanied by our good friends Faces for Radio who should be taking to the stage at around 9pm with ourselves starting around 10.

This is our first city centre gig and it would be good to see as many people there as possible. if you fancy listening to something a bit different come on down.

www.waterfordogs.co.uk

www.facebook.com/waterfordogs

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris Sharman]

Well, that went...errr....all right I suppose.

The support band were Brilliant. They are called 'Faces for Radio' from Beeston in Notts and were really good. Their bass player is brilliant, a real Joy to watch him play. Very much the antithesis of my playing he seemed effortless and sooo smooth compared to my more 'attacking' style. I have to admit turning round to our guitarist half way through their set and asking why They were supporting US and not the other way round? (apparently it has to do with them being new and not having a lot of material yet or something).

Then we went on.

Playing wise I think it was our best yet. When we did have a problem we just played through it and didn't just stop or do anything noticeably stupid so I was very happy with that. I was less happy with the house PA as the guy just set it up and then went and sat down at the other end of the pub with his mates making no attempt to manage the sound. This became a problem during only our second track when a problem with the PA (I would assume power amp related) suddenly fired up the speaker stack next to me at Double volume costing us balance and sound quality, and unfortunately about a third of the audience who took the opportunity to depart (and are probably now receiving treatment for noise induced deafness).

Those who did stick it out thoroughly enjoyed it, as did we, but the sound problems really did put a downer on things....and we got paid which we chose to split evenly with the support act as they really did us a favour in setting those who attended up for a good night.

On to the next one.