How was your gig last night?

[asingardenof]

15 hours ago, casapete said:

First of two gigs for us this evening in the south west of England.

The Hall for Cornwall in Truro is a fantastic Grade II listed building which incorporates the recently opened

auditorium ‘The Cornwall Playhouse’, a superb venue with a seated capacity of 1,354. Both front

of house and backstage are really top notch, and coupled with a decent cafe/bar it is a favourite of ours.

Lots of helpful staff ( many of whom are volunteers ) ensure a good night for their customers.

We all but sold out the gig, so had a great evening. It’s a good sounding room so we got soundchecked

pretty quickly too. Always a pleasure to play in Truro, despite it being a massive trek for us. We are back

into Devon tomorrow night playing in Torquay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice! I never managed to get to Hall for Cornwall when I lived down that way but it looks great from the stage.

[casapete]

56 minutes ago, asingardenof said:

Nice! I never managed to get to Hall for Cornwall when I lived down that way but it looks great from the stage.

It really is a wonderful place, and run so well too. If Carlsberg made theatres…..

[Bluewine]

This Saturday October 7th 5:00 !

Maple Road

Old Falls Village Park Beer Depot
N96W15791 County Line Road, 
Menomonee Falls WI

 

Blue

[dmccombe7]

15 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

This Saturday October 7th 5:00 !

Maple Road

Old Falls Village Park Beer Depot
N96W15791 County Line Road, 
Menomonee Falls WI

 

Blue

Beer Depot ? that sounds intriguing.

Dave

[Richard R]

Isn't the internet wonderful!!

 

https://www.oldfallsvillage.com/depot-beer-garden-event

 

[scalpy]

Thursday night wedding done. Mad thrash getting set up and the organisers had some flash mob dance tracks as surprise for the happy couple we had to play over the PA, but all was good. Dep guitarist put in some work since Tuesdays rehearsal and was ok. No horns so the trimmings were on tracks but crowd didn’t seem to mind, in fact they were really up for it especially considering it was a mid week do. And we had to stop by 10:30 so home before midnight, result! Human mirror ball singer included in photo for some variation. 

[Muzz]

Charity Ball at the Midland in the city centre last night, about 350 posh frocks and black ties...5:30pm soundcheck, 10pm start time (I went home and came back), which then overran (if there are two things in this world stone cold guaranteed to overrun, it's wedding speeches and charity raffles), pushing us out to 10:30pm and then 10:45pm start, luckily the organisers took the last 15 off our running time, so we only played an hour for the full fee...the downside was that GMP had decided to keep the parking suspension for the Tory party conference there (which had all finished on Weds) running till 9pm tonight (why?), so you couldn't park within at least a 1/4 mile of the place. I spent 30 minutes driving round and round in ever-increasing circles until I eventually found somewhere, at £12.50 for 4 hours...

 

House/3rd party PA and engineer, but his monitors were tiny, good job I'd bunged the Rumble 12 in the boot, so I used that to monitor. All good, even better the load-out was fire doors 10ft behind us, we fetched the cars and were out in 10 minutes...

[Downunderwonder]

17 hours ago, Muzz said:

Charity Ball at the Midland in the city centre last night, about 350 posh frocks and black ties...5:30pm soundcheck, 10pm start time (I went home and came back), which then overran (if there are two things in this world stone cold guaranteed to overrun, it's wedding speeches and charity raffles), pushing us out to 10:30pm and then 10:45pm start, luckily the organisers took the last 15 off our running time, so we only played an hour for the full fee...the downside was that GMP had decided to keep the parking suspension for the Tory party conference there (which had all finished on Weds) running till 9pm tonight (why?), so you couldn't park within at least a 1/4 mile of the place. I spent 30 minutes driving round and round in ever-increasing circles until I eventually found somewhere, at £12.50 for 4 hours...

 

House/3rd party PA and engineer, but his monitors were tiny, good job I'd bunged the Rumble 12 in the boot, so I used that to monitor. All good, even better the load-out was fire doors 10ft behind us, we fetched the cars and were out in 10 minutes...

If running late is that predictable you should build it into your fee in the form of per 1/4 hr extensions to the agreed engagement. A performance for 1 hr  10pm to 11pm becomes 10pm to 12am with a +1hr fee tacked on.

[gafbass02]

Private function in a cocktail garden in Hereford. Pretty fab night all round, small crowd of lovely folks, paid well, easy load in, good sound. All good  Outdoors, but under cover and a pleasant, balmy evening. I used my new bass and was very pleased with it. It’s been a bit of a nightmare situation, but almost sorted. I might post about it soon, it’s pretty damning for a well known bass specialist retailer. Sadly the video was shot using a potato. 

[Merton]

Long day yesterday. Left Surrey 10.30am, drove to Manchester (well, Steve our drummer did, I sat and talked in the passenger seat), quick lit stop via Nicki McBrain’s Drum One and onto Gullivers in Manchester for soundcheck

A self-promoted Katy Hurt gig with Gasoline and Matches providing first class support. (Great songs, vocal harmonies, guitar solos, musicianship, lovely people).

Not a huge number of ticket sales sadly - that’s the problem with a last-minute self-promoted gig 😆 A fair bit of walk up though, so the room’s atmosphere certainly didn’t feel lacking by the time we hit the stage at 9. Just under 90 minutes later we’d had an absolute blast, played two new songs which went great given we’d only run them both once in soundcheck, and the crowd were marvellous.

 

Used my Zoot P5, TE Elf and Barefaced Two10; onstage bass was immense and the lovely sound guy did a superb job with monitoring and FOH.

 

Finished up, packed away, back on the road 11.10pm and home 3.15am. Very glad when the boss decided to get up at 7.30am to make a cuppa and then sit in bed noisily drinking it 😒

 

But a great day! Roll on Friday 13th in Sutton for more of the same, only significantly closer to home 😎

 

[colleya]

Penultimate Jump the Shark gig was a weird one.

 

The Railway in Royton, usually a great gig. It was busy (not as packed as usual) but the crowd didn't seem as into it as normal. As a consequence we never really got into the top gear you find when you're getting a great reaction.

 

Sound gremlins meant I had half an ear out for feedback all night too, which probably affected my ability to relax and properly enjoy it.

 

Rig was my Ibanez sms1005, Ashdown RM 500 and TKS 212, which sounded reliably great.

 

[Cliff Edge]

Hastily arranged almost last minute booking at a local sailing club to celebrate a birthday. Although walk ups were allowed in free. Despite a lot of other venues in the town having live music last night we got a reasonable crowd. Small room, no stage but a good sound. I gave the Stingray its first gig despite its initial reluctance to intonate properly, I had the Jazz on standby just in case, but it behaved itself, stayed in tune and sounded great. Free parking right outside the front door always a bonus especially so with the room being upstairs and no lift. Can’t have everything. 
No more gigs until the end of November due to holidays to get some sun before winter comes. 
No pics, we’re not that good looking. 

Edited October 8, 2023 by Cliff Edge

[casapete]

32 minutes ago, colleya said:

Penultimate Jump the Shark gig was a weird one.

 

The Railway in Royton, usually a great gig. It was busy (not as packed as usual) but the crowd didn't seem as into it as normal. As a consequence we never really got into the top gear you find when you're getting a great reaction.

 

Sound gremlins meant I had half an ear out for feedback all night too, which probably affected my ability to relax and properly enjoy it.

 

Rig was my Ibanez sms1005, Ashdown RM 500 and TKS 212, which sounded reliably great.

 

You’re a better man than me for allowing the mixer to be placed on top of your cab!
Admittedly I am a bit touchy about things that may vibrate or cables everywhere though,

and when set up space is limited there are sometimes no other options.

Like the look of your TKS cab too. 😊

[Leonard Smalls]

We travelled to a reasonably new venue last night, The Foundry in Brecon, and very nice it is too! Easy load in, helpful and very pleasant owner/soundman, decent little room (maybe 140 capacity?).

First up were some crazies - Anoise who had stand-up drummer, dancey backing tracks off a laptop and bassist triggering fx and playing dubby stuff. They had a dancer dressed firstly as Mr Blobby (Mr. Bezzy!) who stomped about while the band made who knows what sort of racket, complete with costume changes. And they'd brought 90 balloons, all blown up by the band which were scattered hither and thither. Huge Fun and recommended!

 

 

Then we were on, unfortunately, the guitar cab was next to our drummist so he couldn't hear many of the cues he needed but we muddled through. In fact despite me not being able to hear me (the usual "everyone needs to turn down" during soundcheck then I'm the only one that does it, but luckily I can play all our songs without hearing any of it...) there was jumping about and gentle moshing and obligatory balloon football form much of the 50-odd people there. The Anoise bass player even jumped up on stage at one point to tell me I had "amazing technique" - while he probably wasn't wrong (🤣) he was a touch inebriated. Excellent fun had, and those Brecon folks are Madferit!

And I used my ACG Recurve with Helix into Marshall Jubilee and Markbass 2x10. Must turn it up a bit next Thursday for 999 support in Birmingham! 

 

 

Finally we had Dropping like Flies, long established South Wales punkers and a proper bunch of comedians - their between songs banter was worthy of Frankie Boyle, but a bit more risque! and they were tight as a gnat's with great sound and good bunch of songs.

 

[colleya]

18 minutes ago, casapete said:

You’re a better man than me for allowing the mixer to be placed on top of your cab!
Admittedly I am a bit touchy about things that may vibrate or cables everywhere though,

and when set up space is limited there are sometimes no other options.

Like the look of your TKS cab too. 😊

 

Cheers, it's a great cab, I'd love it to be a wee bit smaller & lighter but I'm not for swapping.

 

The mixer on cab situation is born of necessity.  I need to be able to make on the fly adjustments and it's the easiest place for access.  As for cables everywhere, the less said about that the better...... 🤐🤐🤐

[bassbiscuits]

Had a great time as one-third of the Andy Wales Blues Band, opening for a band called the Cinelli Brothers at the Musician Pub in Leicester. 

Good crowd came to see the headliners (who were ace) and thankfully it was already pretty full when we played our 45-min support slot.

 

We are quite a new band but seem to go down really well, mixing up some carefully chosen old blues/soul covers with our own original material, and turned up dead loud. What’s not to love?

 

[Jo.gwillim]

2 hours ago, colleya said:

Penultimate Jump the Shark gig was a weird one.

 

The Railway in Royton, usually a great gig. It was busy (not as packed as usual) but the crowd didn't seem as into it as normal. As a consequence we never really got into the top gear you find when you're getting a great reaction.

 

Sound gremlins meant I had half an ear out for feedback all night too, which probably affected my ability to relax and properly enjoy it.

 

Rig was my Ibanez sms1005, Ashdown RM 500 and TKS 212, which sounded reliably great.

 

Hard to relax with feedback on the prowl isn't it? I hate being the sound guy and bass player. Either job is fine but both together arrgh. We have at least 6 mics onstage and feedback was an awful problem,  moved over to IEMs, but they didn't gel except for the main singer who loves them as she could never hear herself and kept on asking for more stage monitor volume. Feedback probs gone now! Happy daze.

[Jo.gwillim]

1 minute ago, Jo.gwillim said:

Hard to relax with feedback on the prowl isn't it? I hate being the sound guy and bass player. Either job is fine but both together arrgh. We have at least 6 mics onstage and feedback was an awful problem,  moved over to IEMs, but they didn't gel except for the main singer who loves them as she could never hear herself and kept on asking for more stage monitor volume. Feedback probs gone now! Happy daze.

Ps still using your barefaced 210, best gigging cab for me. 

[Paul S]

10 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

...opening for a band called the Cinelli Brothers at the Musician Pub in Leicester. 

Good crowd came to see the headliners (who were ace)

 

 

Aren't they!  We supported them last year and they are totally brilliant.  Nice guys, too.  I thought - their bass player is a bit good.  Then they swapped around and he was an even better guitarist!

[colleya]

23 minutes ago, Jo.gwillim said:

Hard to relax with feedback on the prowl isn't it? I hate being the sound guy and bass player. Either job is fine but both together arrgh. We have at least 6 mics onstage and feedback was an awful problem,  moved over to IEMs, but they didn't gel except for the main singer who loves them as she could never hear herself and kept on asking for more stage monitor volume. Feedback probs gone now! Happy daze.

The drummer and I use in ears. Singer & guitarist don't like them. With only one gig left before the band wraps up that's not going to change.

 

I'm looking for a new gig, but I'd really like to just turn up & play for a bit, rather than be chief gig getter, pa wrangler etc.

 

That barefaced is fab, for me the TKS takes up a bit more sonic space, if that makes sense. If I could combine the barefaced's size & weight with the TKS' sound.......

[bassbiscuits]

28 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

Aren't they!  We supported them last year and they are totally brilliant.  Nice guys, too.  I thought - their bass player is a bit good.  Then they swapped around and he was an even better guitarist!

Yeah - I think the drummer is the only one who didn’t play lead guitar at some point! But he did a drum solo, so that made up for it.

 

They were great tho - a good match with our little trio in terms of the sort of material and audience they attracted too so it worked out really well. 
 

Edited October 8, 2023 by bassbiscuits

[Muzz]

Pub gig in Walkden, half-empty pub (like an awful lot these days), half-arsed response till, of course, the end, when the drunks were all jumping about and on the 'More!' train...luckily there's a hard 12pm cutoff, so we could ignore them after that. Inears as always were fantastic, all nice and quiet and mixed the way I like - those wireless transmitter/receiver things were the best £70 I've spent in a very long time...plus no backline to haul around means I'm set up in about 2 minutes, and broken down and into the car in less than that...

[Muzz]

On 07/10/2023 at 03:49, Downunderwonder said:

If running late is that predictable you should build it into your fee in the form of per 1/4 hr extensions to the agreed engagement. A performance for 1 hr  10pm to 11pm becomes 10pm to 12am with a +1hr fee tacked on.

Hahahaaa...that's hopeful at best - no event planner/wedding organiser ever admits they're going to run over, they'd take it as a personal insult to their (actually non-existent) planning/organising skillz...plus getting more money out of the customer 'tacked on' is an invitation to an argument on the night. The result we had was the best outcome, tho: we finished at the agreed time, anything preventing us from starting just came off that...

[Lozz196]

5 hours ago, Merton said:

Long day yesterday. Left Surrey 10.30am, drove to Manchester (well, Steve our drummer did, I sat and talked in the passenger seat), quick lit stop via Nicki McBrain’s Drum One and onto Gullivers in Manchester for soundcheck

A self-promoted Katy Hurt gig with Gasoline and Matches providing first class support. (Great songs, vocal harmonies, guitar solos, musicianship, lovely people).

Not a huge number of ticket sales sadly - that’s the problem with a last-minute self-promoted gig 😆 A fair bit of walk up though, so the room’s atmosphere certainly didn’t feel lacking by the time we hit the stage at 9. Just under 90 minutes later we’d had an absolute blast, played two new songs which went great given we’d only run them both once in soundcheck, and the crowd were marvellous.

 

Used my Zoot P5, TE Elf and Barefaced Two10; onstage bass was immense and the lovely sound guy did a superb job with monitoring and FOH.

 

Finished up, packed away, back on the road 11.10pm and home 3.15am. Very glad when the boss decided to get up at 7.30am to make a cuppa and then sit in bed noisily drinking it 😒

 

But a great day! Roll on Friday 13th in Sutton for more of the same, only significantly closer to home 😎

 

From the limited amount I’ve heard from Gasoline & Matches I quite like them so will have to check out the Katy Hurt material if of similar genre?

[uk_lefty]

Came down from Hertfordshire to play the Brewhouse in Cardiff last night. Incredible experience, absolutely packed venue in the heart of the city centre where it's just utter carnage around all the bars. Great gig, decent crowd, probably going back next year.