JamesXP Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Wasn't too bad.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 We had a week night gig last night. It was an outside small club party thing. Week night shows have never been great for us, so we went into with the old "paid rehearsal" outlook. The crowd was small but responsive. The best part of the evening was the guys kept the stage volume low, I could hear everything in the monitors crystal clear.It really helped my backing vocals. blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Not really a gig , but our 'music room' refurbish (it took all winter and spring...) is just about finished, just in time for us to rehearse in preparation for our first (and maybe only...) outing this year. It's a small local festival, run by a couple of mates; we've played there a couple of times in past years and have been invited back again. We've not practised for over a year together, and to our surprise, the magic seems to still be there..! Pop/rock (Radiohead, Bashung, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, dEUS, RATM and more...), we went through a couple of hours of numbers with little effort. Not as rusty as all that, it would seem..! I'll maybe get some pics together at next rehearsal and/or the gig, end of August. Chuffed..? You bet I am..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 [quote name='JamesXP' timestamp='1406234033' post='2509698'] Wasn't too bad... [/quote] You know you're not allowed to busk at stations any more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Thoroughly enjoyable evening playing the Riverside Club in Staines on one of their 'Down by the River' (aka Bluegrass Staines) evenings. Was great to see BC'er Lozz196 who came along to see us and also very kindly provided me with a box to send an amp in. Top man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Just back from another wedding gig. First set inevitably a victim of the weather, with a brand new upper balcony on the clubhouse at a revamped golf club overlooking the 18th green i would have sat outside chatting rather than be inside dancing in that temperature too. Hence we played to about 4 people for set 1. As it cooled and those with small kids went home after 10pm we were left with the hardcore partygoers for second set who filled the dancefloor until we quit, exhausted, at midnight (they had a curfew at that point anyway). Another gig Sat night at a notoriously sweaty pub we play each month. Better take a towel... The buffet was rather lacklustre btw, give it 4/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 (edited) Another trip to The Hop Pole in Bromsgrove. It was a very warm evening and inside of the pub was quiet, but with a busy beer garden. Despite the sparse crowd, the atmosphere built up during the two sets, with a full dance floor towards the end, and plenty of praise, with a generous amount in the 'whip round bucket' too. Our first public performance of new cover 'Police and Thieves' went down a storm - definitely one to keep in the set. Another added bonus was when a venue owner approached us afterwards wanting us to play at his place in Redditch All in all, a worthwhile trip :-) Edited July 26, 2014 by Roland Rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Stood in with a local pop/rock/indie covers outfit last night. Their new bass player is not yet up to speed, but I already knew half the material. I had a couple of weeks' notice and 2 run-throughs with them beforehand, and I was very happy with the way it went. More importantly, so were they! Bloomin' hot indoors, but the venue had thoughtfully provided 2 mahoosive fans for the stage, which helped enormously. P-bass through Streamliner and full BF rig sounded excellent. Unfortunately the heat kept a lot of people outside in the 'beer garden'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Just got back from a completely different sort of a gig (so strictly 'tonight' rather than 'last night'). This was a sight-reading job in an 8-piece band playing soul and 50s/60s covers at a golf club bun-fight. I had a run through the pad with them on Thursday, and was pleased to find that the arranger (the guitarist in the band) had pitched the bass parts at exactly my level of sight-reading ability. This time I had the Sandberg through the SVT-3Pro and Compact. This was a bit of an experiment, as I had never gigged this combination before, only tried it at home, where it sounded a bit 'vanilla'. In a band context, it sounded lush - lovely chewy mids, at a level where every note was loud and clear, and the bass sat beautifully in the mix. The band were well chuffed, first that I was available for the gig at all, and second that I made a reasonable job of it. I have a feeling I may get called again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Just got in from a regular pub gig and it was a great one ,we had them bouncing even in the first set , blooded 3 new songs and it was the first work out for my new (used) TC Electronics rig , I was very pleased with what it sounded like and the way it worked for the gig ,, we are back there for a christmas party , so that should be fun , a good night all in , even if it was a touch warm tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGuyAtTheBack Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Another wedding gig at the same place as last week, the Coo Cathedral. Smaller crowd and pretty much disinterested till the last half hour The usual requests to keep playing! Another hog roast at half time, seems to be the in thing up here now and a free bar for the band which the singer took full advantage of! Might at least got us some drinks whilst he was up. We have seen him vault the bar and help himself to drinks whilst still singing the jammie sod. A lot of English people up for the wedding and they just wanted to hear Scottish Country dance music, so we obliged and got the ipod out, that took care of a hour! Finally managed to get a good sound out the BBE preamp after some advice from BC member Ghost Bass. A reasonable gig and well paid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Wedding gig at Tavistock Town Hall. Extraordinarily hot! Definitely lost a few pounds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Sharman Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Played a 45 minute set at the Swadlincote Sausage and Cider Festival. Perfect time of the evening 6:45 to 7:30 just as the sun was full on the stage, bright sunshine, loads of people who seemed to have consumed a 'fair quantity' of cider and a big heaping of Ska served up by us. There were quite a group dancing at the front and as far as we could see small pockets of people dancing all across the field. Uttered the first two words of the intro to One Step Beyond as our last track and the place went wild (just like last week) left us ending on a massive buzz. Absolutely loved it. There were a number of problems with the organisation of the event (first of it's kind) along the lines of the bar and food queues being massive, running out of vegetarian food by the middle of the first afternoon, and other organisational difficulties which I have to say may be well founded. However with the weather as it was they should have expected the turn out they had, it was rammed. They are learning though and have already announced some changes for the second day. I hope they do it again next year as we have been told we would be up for a later spot if they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adebass Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) We played our first gig as such, it's usually attending/running open mic nights, so this was a nice difference. Nothing huge was our drummers brothers engagement party. It started off a little slow but after the first few songs people were up and dancing and singing, we ended up doing a few songs at the end where I made bass lines up as we went along, worked nicely. They even had neighbours they had never met before coming round, because they heard the band and liked it, so came round for a dance. All in all was really good fun! Edited July 27, 2014 by Adebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 [quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1405942255' post='2506693'] Ha! Yep, this...Friday was sausage and chips with overdone pizza slices, Saturday a very small pork-pie-and-sausage-roll affair. Both well below par - a prawn vol-au-vent would have been welcomed. [/quote] wow - sounds like we are well and truly spoiled at our gigs gives me an idea to start up another thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneyg42 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) Headlined the Ash Music Festival nr Aldershot yesterday, 6-7 slot. Had a ball, turned up with a picnic and a few beers early and watched a few of the other bands who were all good. Usual assortment of dancers and nutters having fun with us. A great day!! Our very own Seashell turned up with a friend, good to see her!! http://youtu.be/VoDXb4yJJ6I Edited July 27, 2014 by barneyg42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtcat Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Hot wedding nr Andover. Hard floors, glass walls and high ceiling made it tricky. What made it worse is that our drummer is a bell end and, despite being asked repeatedly, wouldn't play quieter than "stadium volume". He's gonna be a goner at the rate he's going. He's good and he knows it but he has the brain capacity of a five year old child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Great up for it crowd at a very good Beer Festival. We put a LOT into it but not sure what returns we got out of it. I've heard the tapes from the desk and there is a LOT of ambient noise in it as well as we mixed the tape sources... the place was manic and that came across but not sure we will get decent enough seperation to be of any use. The reviews and feedback seem pretty good so sometimes you just have to settle for that... Apart from a few tempo's being a bit racy..I am not sure any technical issues could be put all at our door anyway... Stage sound was pokey and dynamic and we played very well..so came off pretty pleased at that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 VERY hot. Did a Help for Heroes/Cancer Research fundraiser over in Southport. No soundcheck/on stage monitoring or any such luxuries. Just turned up and rocked out. We had a blast and those left standing at the end of the set (it had been going since 2pm, and we started at 10pm) did too. We didn't sound our best, but we gave it everything (as always) and went for drinks with the organisers afterwards - 4 cokes as we were all driving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 One of our regular pub gigs in what is usually a challengingly warm room at the best of times. Well well they'd finally cranked the air con up a bit so it was tolerable and resulted in a pretty busy dancefloor, even had one guy doing a bit of air bass in front of me at one point. We tried out a new number (completely unrehearsed as a band) and it went reasonably OK, needs a bit of tweaking here and there but the basics are there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 [quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1406462549' post='2511613'] Headlined the Ash Music Festival nr Aldershot yesterday, 6-7 slot. Had a ball, turned up with a picnic and a few beers early and watched a few of the other bands who were all good. Usual assortment of dancers and nutters having fun with us. A great day!! Our very own Seashell turned up with a friend, good to see her!! http://youtu.be/VoDXb4yJJ6I [/quote] It was a lovely day. All the bands were really enjoyable. Especially Colin's band of course. It was good to see a female fronted band for a change. Stacey is awesome! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneyg42 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1406485276' post='2511855'] It was a lovely day. All the bands were really enjoyable. Especially Colin's band of course. It was good to see a female fronted band for a change. Stacey is awesome! :-) [/quote] Thanks Shell, yeah she's a bit good!! Does the blokey songs well too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 We did a house gig in Chelmsford last night. I haven't played a house gig since 1990 and it seemed a long way to go from West Berkshire but it was a great 4 piece all acoustic show with a good audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestar Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) Hot and sweaty but a great gig depping for my old band in a huge marquee at a very fancy schmancy Birthday party in Essex Nice people and Lovely food too Edited July 27, 2014 by lonestar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Saturday was another wedding - lovely venue, lovely couple, fish and chips, ice-cream van and free bar when we arrived. We played well, to a good response and had a small number of committed dancers from the start and through most of the gig, however most people were sat outside the marquee - given the heat and humidity, I don't blame them, I'd probably do the same. I'm over summer now, please come back winter, all is forgiven; gigs in this humidity are just exhausting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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