Tell Us About The New Years Eve Gig Your Band Is Playing This Year

[Burns-bass]

Alas, the bar we were going to play at is closing tomorrow due to staff sickness. That’s a big payday gone, but hope the staff are OK.

[casapete]

On 26/12/2024 at 00:54, casapete said:

Hopefully

we will be finished soon after midnight so not too late home - weather report looking

good. 🤞

Having seen the forecast just now for our region, I’m a bit concerned our journey

up to Scarborough on NYE may end up a bit ‘difficult’ - fingers crossed.

[Bluewine]

3 minutes ago, casapete said:

Having seen the forecast just now for our region, I’m a bit concerned our journey

up to Scarborough on NYE may end up a bit ‘difficult’ - fingers crossed.

Pete,

I want everybody here gigging tomorrow night to make it back home safely. 

 

We have a lot of fog in the forecast tomorrow and I'm driving on back country roads.

 

Daryl

[casapete]

10 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Pete,

I want everybody here gigging tomorrow night to make it back home safely. 

 

We have a lot of fog in the forecast tomorrow and I'm driving on back country roads.

 

Daryl

Thanks Daryl, hope you make your gig and back safely.

 

For me here it’s looking like high winds and torrential rain with the potential for snow too.

My route is also back country roads with some steep hills, so snow / ice is the worst scenario.

Only around 50 miles each way but will be setting off in good time. 

[Woodinblack]

After being stuffed out of our gig by the venue booking someone else, wasn't expecting to have a gig. However, someone got a cancellation and one of the other venues said that we had been let down so we were available, so they contacted us. They wouldn't pay much but by posting another venue that we play quite a lot (and practice at) realised we weren't playing and decided to open up for NYE, so we have a gig after all!

Looking forward to that

[Woodinblack]

58 minutes ago, casapete said:

Only around 50 miles each way but will be setting off in good time. 

 

Hope the journey back is good, it looks a bit rubbish out there, especially up north. I have never actually done a gig 50 miles away!

[Bluewine]

7 hours ago, casapete said:

Thanks Daryl, hope you make your gig and back safely.

 

For me here it’s looking like high winds and torrential rain with the potential for snow too.

My route is also back country roads with some steep hills, so snow / ice is the worst scenario.

Only around 50 miles each way but will be setting off in good time. 

 

Thanks Pete,

 

My GPS says it's only an 18 minute drive. However,  with fog anytime on the road is bad.

 

Daryl

[asingardenof]

18 hours ago, Merton said:

Some fun basslines in there (Life Is A Highway by Rascal Flats for example).

That is a fun one indeed!

[asingardenof]

Playing at Scholes Cricket Club tonight. Getting there at 6.30pm for setup and soundcheck, but no idea what time we're starting (apparently the club will tell us later) so equally no idea if I'll be home for midnight, or if I'll die of boredom before we start

[pete.young]

Bit of a sore point there Daryl. One of the main reasons I got back into playing was so that I didn't have to sit at home watching Jools Holland on NYE phoning it in with his chums in the middle of November.

Nothing this year or for a couple of years, not even a sniff of a dep job. On the bright side I have at least figured out how to watch the NYE show on the Irish channel TG4, so at least there will be some decent music.

[stewblack]

1st set done and apart from one guy who is, I assume, taking the night off from welcoming cars to the village, it's like a room full of people in shock after some kind of natural disaster.

[stewblack]

2nd set done. The interesting guy has picked up a tambourine to help us out. 

The sisters of the night have risen and danced to a couple of tunes. 

Excited to see how things develop.

[Buddster]

5 minutes ago, stewblack said:

The sisters of the night have risen

Thats great turn of phrase

[Bluewine]

9 hours ago, pete.young said:

Bit of a sore point there Daryl. One of the main reasons I got back into playing was so that I didn't have to sit at home watching Jools Holland on NYE phoning it in with his chums in the middle of November.

Nothing this year or for a couple of years, not even a sniff of a dep job. On the bright side I have at least figured out how to watch the NYE show on the Irish channel TG4, so at least there will be some decent music.

 

Pete,

It's nice to have Bass Chat to discuss these common issues. Everybody is different.  For me, at 71, doing these gigs are starting to be very difficult physically.  I'm having thoughts about how long can I go on doing this.

[Bluewine]

On 24/12/2024 at 17:22, Bluewine said:

Maple Road is playing a 4:00-7:00 early New Years Eve gig at The Precinct in Germantown.

 

It's our 2nd year playing this gig. New Years Eve gigs seem to be good regardless of the circumstances. Last year was great.

 

Daryl

 

Great early  New Years Eve gig. Great crowd and great food. We had a few tempo and ending issues. Overall a good night.

 

Daryl

Edited Wednesday at 22:41 by Bluewine

[police squad]

great gig yesterday. Played 2 x 50 minute sets then 1 x 70 min

Home by 7.15, awesome

happy new year everyone