What Does Your Summer Look Like ?

[Bluewine]

What does your summer booking schedule look like? 

 

Is your summer schedule full, any new exciting and interesting gigs coming up?

 

Share info on anything that's coming up.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

It seems like I might have a busy summer. Bookings are still coming in. Mostly fairs & festivals, Winery's and Brewerys.

 

Here's a story about a gig we just canceled. 

 

County Fair. We were supposed to play outside of the grandstand after the Bret Michael's.

( Poison ),9-11.

 

When we were confirming the gig we found out they were not providing sound & lights and we had to turn it down. It would have been too expensive to bring our own. Oh well.

 

Daryl

Edited Saturday at 18:30 by Bluewine

[casapete]

Mine is looking okay.

I have 3 gigs every month at good venues with the acoustic duo, along

with quite a few other ‘one offs’. Gigs with the blues three piece amount to 2 / 3 a month

too, mainly in pubs although we have one at a blues club and an appearance at a Jazz and

Blues festival in June. I don’t really want any more gigs than these TBH as I’m hoping to

have some nice days away with Mrs CP ( which I rarely managed when I was touring.)

 

[Bluewine]

11 minutes ago, casapete said:

Mine is looking okay.

I have 3 gigs every month at good venues with the acoustic duo, along

with quite a few other ‘one offs’. Gigs with the blues three piece amount to 2 / 3 a month

too, mainly in pubs although we have one at a blues club and an appearance at a Jazz and

Blues festival in June. I don’t really want any more gigs than these TBH as I’m hoping to

have some nice days away with Mrs CP ( which I rarely managed when I was touring.)

 

 

Nice. I'm sort of in the same place. I don't think I want anymore.  I especially struggle  with 2 gig weekends. 

 

Daryl

[Leonard Smalls]

We've only got three gigs booked, all on consecutive weekends...

National Mountain Boarding Festival, a joint show in Hereford with Brazilian punks Anti Virus, then Rebellion Festival in Blackpool.

[BigRedX]

Much the same as the rest of the year.

 

Personally I don't like festivals much and I don't think the English weather is particularly suitable for them unless they are held indoors. We have one outdoor event in the 2025 calendar but it does have an indoor location should the weather turn bad, and I have relations living close by so I'll be staying with them rather than mingling with the great unwashed while I'm not actually on stage.

[Lozz196]

At the moment we’ve 3 gigs up til the end of May, then nothing til Sep. 

[Merton]

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

[Lozz196]

I may well come along to Fiddlers Elbow @Merton

[Merton]

4 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

I may well come along to Fiddlers Elbow @Merton

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

[police squad]

I have a few gigs coming up with all my bands

the usual summer bank holiday monday in August, near the Deal seafront, this is always packed

[cetera]

I've got 14 gigs in so far from May - September.

 

Deps with Duran#Spandau show, local covers gigs, function band weddings and a couple of gigs with an original artist.

Not bad so far!

[Bluewine]

5 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Much the same as the rest of the year.

 

Personally I don't like festivals much and I don't think the English weather is particularly suitable for them unless they are held indoors. We have one outdoor event in the 2025 calendar but it does have an indoor location should the weather turn bad, and I have relations living close by so I'll be staying with them rather than mingling with the great unwashed while I'm not actually on stage.

 

We're ideal weather wise for summer festivals. However it depends on how they're organised. Established festivals where you have upscale sound ,lighting and staging can be nice.

 

Daryl

Edited Friday at 15:03 by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

20 minutes ago, cetera said:

I've got 14 gigs in so far from May - September.

 

Deps with Duran#Spandau show, local covers gigs, function band weddings and a couple of gigs with an original artist.

Not bad so far!

 

 

That's a nice Summer. 

 

Daryl

[Rosie C]

21 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Is your summer schedule full, any new exciting and interesting gigs coming up?

 

 

I'll be pretty busy playing in the band of two Morris sides, but my own band only have one summer gig in the diary - playing at a Knights Templar re-enactment.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

Only about 11 lined up between now and September and one venue has gone worryingly quiet.

 

Most are at venues I like playing.

[Geek99]

6 hours ago, Rosie C said:

 

I'll be pretty busy playing in the band of two Morris sides, but my own band only have one summer gig in the diary - playing at a Knights Templar re-enactment.

 

Bass lute, I presume ?

[Rosie C]

39 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Bass lute, I presume ?

 

That would be a fine thing, but no, it would be double bass. 

 

 

Edited Friday at 22:14 by Rosie C

[bassbiscuits]

Good mix of tribute gigs, solo acoustic gigs, dep gigs and blues band gigs over the summer for me. 
But I’m also keeping time aside to actually relax and go on holiday with my wife and kids too. It’s been a real slog over the last year or so and my family deserve me back for a bit!

[knirirr]

There are a small number of gigs lined up, but nothing new, e.g.

 

- Charlbury Beer Festival.

- Ramsden Fete.

- Charity concert in St. Martin's Church, Oxford.

 

...plus some as-yet-unconfirmed stuff. I'd be surprised if there were more than half a dozen gigs, but that number is fine with me.

[SICbass]

11 hours ago, Rosie C said:

 

That would be a fine thing, but no, it would be double bass. 

 

 

On a side note, the woman in the photograph is my cousin Elisabeth Kenny, master Theorbo player. Sadly, I don’t really know her and am not sure if we‘ve ever met.

[SICbass]

This year, my summer is well decent, which is normally never the case. I‘ve got a run of a Rock’n’Roll show which started last night - 4 shows a week till the end of May, immediately followed by 6 weeks of an ABBA show - both shows are in my hometown - result.

Then a two week gap and a further 7 weeks in a theatre out of town (8 shows a week), by which point it’s mid-September.

Please forgive me showing off, but like I said, this normally never happens to me, so I’m well chuffed.

Edited Saturday at 10:21 by SICbass

[Geek99]

56 minutes ago, SICbass said:

On a side note, the woman in the photograph is my cousin Elisabeth Kenny, master Theorbo player. Sadly, I don’t really know her and am not sure if we‘ve ever met.

Fingers really should be just behind the frets…. Tsk tsk 😛

[Cliff Edge]

23 hours ago, Merton said:

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

Thanks for the introduction to Katy Hurt, I like what I hear. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to the gigs  

[Paul S]

My lot - nothing after the end of April.  Not one.  Nowt.  Zip.  Rein.  Nada.  Zilch.  Niets.  Nichts.  mitättömyys.  Niente.  无 .   لَاشَيّءَ .  何も･･･ない 

 

Which in some ways is OK as I may be having some surgery coming up, depending upon what they decide to do with me.