Cut Iowa Network plays Paris 2 April - DONE

[thebassist]

Hello fellow basschatters - my band Cut Iowa Network are playing the Olympic Café in Paris Saturday, 2 April. If you happen to be about, it'd be lovely to see you.

We're billed by the promotors as post, post, post-rock...

Edited April 4, 2016 by thebassist

[thebassist]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]We were kindly invited to play a live event in Paris on Saturday night - we agreed and then about a month ago our regular drummer said he couldn't make it because he was moving house the weekend of the gig. Not wanting to let people down just a month before the show after the promotion that had already been done, we made contact with a Parisian drummer, had a bit of dialogue, sent him a live recording of the set and decided to press ahead acknowledging the risks associated...[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]So on Saturday, the guitarist and I got up at 2am, drove to the airport for a 7:10 flight with all our gear, did all the customs/passport stuff, landed at Orly 9:35, did all the customs/passport stuff again, got out of the airport at 10:30, arrived at the hotel at 11:30, wasn't able to check in until 14:00 so hung around in the bar area for a couple of hours, eventually got into our room, dumped our stuff, walked 25 minutes to the venue to check it out and then had some lunch. Next up we went and met up with the promoters for a chat...and a lot of expressos - lovely people who made us feel very welcome. Then we went back to the hotel to get all the gear and travel to the venue where we met our drummer for the first time - he too was a very nice guy - then we cracked on with the soundcheck which went surprisingly well - the engineer was superb.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]When it came to the actual show we'd been up for 20 hours and were feeling pretty jaded to be honest - meeting new English people can be tricky but not being able to speak the language (I know that is our problem and not theirs being that we're in their country of course) and meeting new foreign people is really hard - repeating yourself many times over, rearranging sentences, trying to use easier words, speaking slowly, not wanting the awkward silences, etc. - it all took its toll.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Anyway, I'd say 50% of what we delivered was pretty rubbish, 40% of it was very, very average and 10% of it was alright.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]We did accept the risk but the drummer didn't really pick up on the dynamics and building that we were creating for the more post-rocky parts so when we got up to a crescendo where our regular drummer would go absolutely nuts, nothing really happened here - it just kind of fizzled out and turned into a bit of free jazz![/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The French folks in attendance were really lovely afterwards clapping and cheering us but in all honesty it really was a bit of a mess.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Still, it was an incredible experience, we met some really lovely people and, rather strangely, have been invited back to play again which is nice - next time with our regular drummer [/font][/color]

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[ambient]

Cool photo !

Looking forward to hearing what you recorded.

[Guest Jecklin]

That photograph really is great!
...and I LOVE all the delay pedals!

I'm really impressed by you fully embracing chance and getting a drummer in France.

Great stuff.

[thebassist]

Thanks gents. Yes, if for nothing else, I do like that photograph