mrtcat Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Played at Sooty & Billy's custom bike show in Northampton this afternoon. Our usual drummer was being a cock (as usual) and said £300 wasn'tenough for a covers band on a Sun afternoon so the drummer from my other project, who is friggin mint (spinal tap drum tech and session drummer for multiple big names), stepped in. Gig went flawlessly but we had to let a "Burlesque" group dance in the interval. Nowt against burlesque but these were just fat heffers in underwear. Agreed to play their songs thru my PA but got the hump big stylee after one lump gave me her iPhone to plug in so I could play her tune from her itunes. Halfway thru her dance her mate rang her and she blamed me. No offence love but if you don't put your phone on airplane mode first, dont look at me when your tune cuts out and the room is filled with the sound of an old phone ringing. Great bike show tho. Lot's of mint bikes to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) Well it's technically last night as we finished at around 11pm yesterday. Not long back from a gig in Cafe Drummond in Aberdeen. The gig went pretty well, team RD in full effect! The sound engineer used a DI box for pre-everything DI and I had the house Trace 4x10 combo for my own reference. Thunderous. Apart from our drummer wanting to kill the guitarist because of a deafening increase in volume in his monitor (perhaps a pedal setting wrong?) and a few fluffs on my part it went pretty well. We had our guest MC in attendance performing a couple of tunes with us and that always goes down well. Afterwards, a guy who plays a bit of bass (and was sober) told me that he loved the band, and more importantly for me loved my playing and the tone - could hear AND feel it. Seems like the sound engineer, for all his strict adherence to an earlier end time than we were told we could have gave us a great FOH sound. Awesome. Support band was good, sort of jangly, country, psychedelic stuff, bit of harmony singing, I enjoyed their set. Go team RD! Mental thick humbuckery goodness all the way. A great night, all in all. Edited July 26, 2012 by neepheid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clauster Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 (edited) In a word - AWESOME!! New bass for me, new drummer for the band. Both performed really well. It was an important local gig (last elctric gig at Tun Wells Forum before it closes for a refurb) at which overall we pulled an okay performance. I really enjoyed the other three bands too (one of whom has a bassist who's a member here who needs to start a porn thread for his bass - seriously special instrument) Okay, we did have a slight tech blight when the vocalists effects pedal packed up leaving FOH vocals a bit patchy for 1.5 songs. And I did learn that my T-bird Pro leans away from me so I can't see what my hands are doing which was a bit disconcerting. On the flip side, it sounds like a P-bass with more bite ( and is easier to play). Our new drummer is brimming with enthusiasm and has contacts so we can start pulling together other bands that would work well with us (plus a few we've already played with from here). Overall I remember why I LOVE being in a band!! N x Edited July 29, 2012 by clauster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Just played a wedding, with The Daves. Gig went well, few hiccups, mainly due to the drummer playing everything spot on, but our singer - who`d had a couple of pints - coming in on verses/choruses where he felt like it, rather than as per the correct structure, thus throwing the drummer off a bit. But, we sounded great. There were a few blank stares as we started, as I don`t think many of the audience had seen a punk band before, but they got up dancing, fair play to them. And used my Stingray for the first time at a gig. Really not sure if it`s "me". Have been a Precision player for so long, anything else just sounds wrong to me. I think my `Rays may be up for sale pretty soon. Shame, as they play great, look great, and do have a great sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaypup Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 (edited) Great time in Abercarnage tonight and first full-on gig for the SuperChangonians. Went down really well and got soem repeat bookings as well which was cool. Only blip was the drummer's stick snapping and a piece flying off and hitting the ' mute all channel' button on the desk! What are the chances? Took us a while to work it out but we covered well by doing 2 solos each! (An advantage of playing in a psychedelic jazz funk band!) Edit: Forgot to mention that at the after party ended up having a chat with Burke Shelley and what a thoroughly nice chap he is! Edited July 29, 2012 by chaypup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Played a pub gig with the rock band tonight.We haven't played together since April as we all have other bands and just get together every so often and boy did it show in the first half A couple of songs we've done for ages, I was convinced that I was going for F# when in fact it should've been G. We had a natter during the break and came back a different band. Played the Who track "Won't get fooled again" and I was like a dog with two boabies. For an active bass, the Precision has a really raw, dirty, old school passive tone. Especially played at full tilt into the passive input of the Hartke, lots of lovely overdrive from overdriving the preamp valve. My wife was there and she had loads of people telling her how good they thought I was. That's part of the reason why I still play in a rock band. In the wedding band most people are there to dance, get pished and request stupid songs so its nice to get compliments for doing something that I love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 First gig with my new Para driver last night. Bloody fantastic. It was a wedding in a Marquee, plenty of blokes in kilts so a very lively crowd. At one point there were more guest on stage around the mics than there are band members. Quite a few people falling about so we had to keep an eye on things but it was very enjoyable. Highlight of the night was watching two blokes fall over my cab and bass drum (both packed up waiting to go out to the car) in slow motion and not one drop of larger was spilt. The Para driver is going to work well. Ive not had a lot of time to play with it with my rig, but its brought my P bass to life. Ive never been one to use dirt or distortion but found i could get just the right tone for the Jam/Clash songs, and a very warm tone for the Motown songs. The mid control really is a bit plus over the BDDI. My rig sounded very full and deep, not something ive really experienced in this way before, not even with the BDDI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 What a fantastic gig last night! We were playing in the strangest venue I've ever encountered - The Last Bus Depot - a big shed in the middle of rural Aberdeenshire which you have to go down single lane roads and a farm track to get to. It felt more like a private party than a gig and the atmosphere was amazing. The main depot itself has two double decker buses either side that people can sit in (top deck has roof partially removed) and various other paraphernalia like a Reliant Regal, a Robin and motorbikes plus bus parts, light up full size Esso signs and it was absolutely brilliant. Take a look (they're really wide and will probably mess up the forum, so have a link): http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/Oxbow_live/20120728-lastbus/ Anyway, it was a brilliant gig, despite some power and PA issues at the start we managed to get things going. We went down a storm and rock and roll of rock and roll moments - we managed to trip the circuit breaker once during the set. Drummer and horns just kept playing until we got power back and then we all just came back into play Fantastic crowd, really up for it, some of my family came to see me too which was nice - and the first time my Dad had ever seen the band properly. Afterwards it was up to the cafe for a cup of tea. The place is fabulous - converted railway carriages you can stay in, a hexagonal veggie cafe made from reclaimed electricity poles, just a weird, wacky but extremely welcoming place! I enjoyed myself so much that I would play there any time for free. First run out for my new office bass and the BB300 was amazing! Perhaps all split P pickups should be the "wrong" way round! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Best gig yet with All The Queens Ravens. Played the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen. Great sound on stage, appreciative audience and we just clicked really really well. This is why I do this, still buzzing We were support act to a new Country-esque act called Phillious Williams. My word are they good, they will be signed to a record label very soon I predict Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) [size=6][sub]Headlined a beer and music festival at the weekend with a very good line-up and it was very well organised. The camp site was sold out by sat lunch-time, pretty much[/sub] [sub]Huge marquee which was rammed...plus the weather enabled the rest to stay outside. The beer was pretty much sold out on the saturday night and we played a storming set after one or two P.A issues...[/sub] [sub]They booked us there and then to do the same next year.. all good, and one of the most memorable gigs I've been involved in for ages..!![/sub][/size] Edited July 30, 2012 by JTUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 [quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1343603337' post='1752702'] Best gig yet with All The Queens Ravens. Played the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen. Great sound on stage, appreciative audience and we just clicked really really well. This is why I do this, still buzzing We were support act to a new Country-esque act called Phillious Williams. My word are they good, they will be signed to a record label very soon I predict [/quote] Bugger, i totally forgot about this. Sorry, maybe next time. Glad it went well. I saw the vid you posted, loved the track although not keen on the over use of narrow DOF but im sure thats just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Played a new place for us in Rickmansworth on Sat, landlord Jim a no nonsense Leeds boy who loves his rock so we blew the roof off for him! Luckily pub is up for a re-furb in 3 weeks!!! Got a repeat booking post refurb and praises from many of the locals, life don't get much better than this oh and its a Greene King pub too, Abbott Ale...mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Just a shame I had to drive home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Just back from playing in Blackpool. Aftershow gig for the Rebellion festival so a very late kick-off and getting later every time we looked. We arrived at the venue just before 9.00 to find that our start time had been put back from just before midnight to 1.00 in the morning, and we were going to be the first band on. We actually went on at around 1.15... And it was a really good one. There was a minor hiccup at the sound check when we discovered that there had been a misunderstanding with the promoter resulting in them supplying a guitar amp rather than a bass amp. However running my Pod directly into the PA and with some creative routing of the foldback we got the bass sorted. Our set went down brilliantly. There were people up and dancing. Mr Venom was down on one knee singing "Love Me Tendons" to a pretty girl in the audience and generally running amok and causing havoc. Loads of compliments afterwards and we sold nearly a whole box of CDs as well as other merch. Stayed to watch the awesome Vince Ripper & The Rodent Show (who were much impressed by the Gus bass) before heading off to arrive back in Nottingham just after 6.00 in the morning. Tired but happy. And now I'm off to bed... Ta-ra everybody... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 (edited) I'm a little late adding this from my debut gig with new classic Rock band playing Ivory Blacks last week. GB streamliner and Berg HT322 cab were outstanding and gave me that old school warm valve sound. Went down really well. Put on the full lighting show myself and someone managed to capture 8 tracks and posted on youtube. Here's 1st track of the night after 20 yrs away from live gigs. Know its not perfect but it was a great feeling to be playing live again. No nerves either which surprised me. [media]http://youtu.be/PvJxO8V-dHA[/media] Dave Edited August 5, 2012 by dmccombe7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Actually it was Thursday night, we played the Golden Fleece, Nottingham. It's a nice setup, where they remove a railing on the small upper lever and turn it into a stage. When sitting in the pub's main lower level, it kind of looks like the band is playing on a cinema screen. Eclectic mix. The first band was Royston Duxford, a kind of rock n roll/rock/rockabilly three piece. Turns out I know the singer from a while back, and our guitarist knew the rather great eub/bass player too. A good rockin set. Second was the Distillery Blues Band. Wow, I was not expecting to be so blown away! Great players all round, and even a drummer who sang a few numbers with a lovely Joe Cockeresque voice. The real star however was the frontman. Youngish, big beard and even bigger gruff voice, a really musical, heartfelt musician with a minimalist yet unique style. Recommended. This was our third gig, and it all went fine. No clangers, and although the numbers were slim, had them up dancing, partially due to a small but loyal group of fans who whoop us up! Good fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E sharp Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Dreadful . Bike rally with supplied PA , but unfortuanately came with 2 sound men that had no idea - and I mean NO idea . Worst rally ever . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 One of the worst I've played. Depped for a Blues band this lunchtime (12.00-4.00) I got, A singer guitarist who started a song in the wrong key and realised he couldn't sing it so switched between Tiny Tim and Paul Robeson. He also believes playing slide guitar means running a bottle neck up and down the fretboard (With terrible intonation) Then forgot the last wo verses of a song, leaving us with 8 bars of "A" before I finally shout "1st verse again then" A keyboard player that thinks a solo is playing the chords to the song in a "Let's dance", by Chris Montez fashion. A drummer that should go down in history as the worst time-keeper ever, makes the worst choice of things to hit and has fills that defy all logic. It actually sounds like he's walking around a drum shop with a stick trying everything out. He also has a tendency to finish a song with his hands hidden from view, giving no clue as to when it's coming. Guitarist pretty good though. I have 4 more deps with them. Oh joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Had an interesting one... was depping for a band in New Malden at The Fountain. Turned up and there were 200 Korean 's watching the football. Nice people ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Played at Belladrum Festival on Friday evening. Mixed feelings about it to be honest. On the positive side, being not in a tented stage, but rather playing out to the open field we still managed to stop a fair few folk in their tracks and they stuck around for a few songs and danced, so that was good. However, the onstage sound was poor, we played too fast most of the time, and being on the smallest stage at a festival with so much other stuff going on gave me a real "peeing in the ocean" kind of feeling. My first festival gig. 45 minutes. Was that it? What [i]is[/i] all the fuss about? I didn't even stay long after the gig, despite the festival being willing to tolerate our presence for the whole thing. I just wanted to get home for a number of campsite related reasons (noisy neighbours who we feel shouldn't have been in our area, our crappy moisture trap of a tent) above and beyond that sinking feeling when you feel you just didn't perform as well as you know you can. Got a bit of downtime now (no gigs booked until October) so we can relax, refresh, reflect and move on up from this which was - for me anyway - a bit of a damp squib. I wish we had ended our little tour with the gig at Last Bus Depot - we played for an hour and a half and I didn't want to leave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 In Blackpool looking mean and moody... [IMG]http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n249/BigRedX/378363_508880259127719_318799242_n.jpg[/IMG] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamPodmore Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 My bands last gig last night, at the White Horse in Westhoughton. I must say, we couldn't have ended it any better. Jess, our support act did a perfect job or getting everybody warmed up and ready for us to go a bit mental, which we sure did. Safe to say, i'm gonna miss it, but we couldn't have asked for a better ending than we got last night. Liam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 2 pubs this weekend, and tbh, a struggle for the band on both. We performed well enough but I don't think we are enjoying these types of gigs after the summer of festivals we've had. Hopefully, just a temporary blip. Crowd enjoyed them both tho........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeBrownBass Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 (edited) . Edited January 19, 2013 by JakeBrownBass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtcat Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Played a Sausage and Cider festival yesterday. I also ran sound for the day with my pa system. We were first band on and all went well. Crowd grew and grew through our 2hr set as the weather was perfect and widespread dancing broke out in the second set . Was nice to be able to let the PA run at war volume for a change and it was a goodshowcase for all my BFM cabs. Following us there were three other bands. The next after us was poor tbh. They described themselves as a pro function band but with the exception of the drummer (stand in pro) and the bass player (lovely sound from a fretless J) who were good the rest of the band were dull, out of tune and laclustre. I did my best to get them a nice sound but was clearly an exercise in turd polishing. Next two bands were great tho. One an indie covers band with a very energetic singer and a guitarist who works for musicman and has organised some free strings for me. The last was a folky rock band from Nothampton with a smashing bass player who demonstrated that you don't need to spend a fortune to sound good. He had an old Ampeg BassRocket combo and a fender modern player telecaster bass with flats on. He sounded awesome. Perfect for his band too. They were real gents too who all took the time to thank me. All in all a good day but more than anything enjoyed hearing my BFM PA system from out front. Oh yeah several gallons of scrumpy and loads of sausages also helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musophilr Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I was playing guitar with another guitarist, at the opening ceremony for his art exhibition. He had a pointy Ibanez thing with a Zoom floormounted FX box into a Marshall Valvestate 8080, and I played my Yamaha SA2200 straight into my Harley-Benton GA5. The contrast of the solid guitar with various FX was nice with the mellow jazzy/bluesy sound of the semi into a low powered amplifier running a single EL84 in Class A. We had a small number of instrumental pieces prepared and we also did a little jamming. The people who came to see the pictures liked the music too We didn't play all night, so when I got back to my village there was still time for a pint or two in my local Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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