How was your gig last night?

[Norris]

4 hours ago, Muzz said:

On the point earlier, we've put the money up to £300 for 2 x 45s for a trio, no-one's complaining and the diary's filling up...

That's still pretty cheap, if you don't mind me saying 😀

[Bluewine]

6 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

You're "internationally renowned". 😎

 

Stub, what was interesting, the couple I sat down with knew me, but I had no clue who they were. They had seen me at our New Years Eve 2023 gig at The Precinct.

 

They had met my girlfriend and was asking about her and made comments about how nice she was. This was the night my girlfriend had too much to drink and flashed our bandleaders father. 

 

Yes, I'm "internationally renowned." Lol

 

Daryl

Edited 21 hours ago by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

3 hours ago, 12stringbassist said:

Saturday night was our second gig of this year at Hogarths in Bolton. A decent sized venue and usually quite busy. It was fairly packed while we were playing and our two spots went down really well. They even went a bit mad when we played one of our own songs off our album. Back in September.

 

 

 

Looking great and sounding great.

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Bluewine said:

 

Stub, what was interesting, the couple I sat down with knew me, but I had no clue who they were. They had seen me at our New Years Eve 2023 gig at The Precinct.

 

They had met my girlfriend and was asking about her and made comments about how nice she was. This was the night my girlfriend had too much to drink and flashed our bandleaders father. 

 

Yes, I'm "internationally renowned." Lol

 

Daryl

Don't know about you Daryl but your girlfriend is 

Dave

Edited 20 hours ago by dmccombe7

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Don't know about you Daryl but your girlfriend is 

Dave

 

Hi Dave,

 

What I don't get is everyone blamed me for that stunt. I was sober and didn't flash anyone.

 

My good friend and great drummer told me that's all anyone's ever going to remember you from. 

 

Daryl

Edited 18 hours ago by Bluewine

[dmccombe7]

19 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

Hi Dave,

 

What I don't get is everyone blamed me for that stunt. I was sober and didn't flash anyone.

 

My good friend and great drummer told me that's all anyone's ever going to remember you from. 

 

Daryl

Is there a better way to be remembered ? 🤩

Dave

[Beedster]

In truth my fave gig for many years, not the most competent or accomplished but extremely satisfying. First outing for BandKamp, a bunch of friends getting together to rehearse an iconic album for 2-3 months, and then gig it live once and once only before moving on to the next iconic album. First was yesterday when we did Dylan's Blonde on Blonde (tying it in with the Chalomet movie) at The Ballroom in Canterbury, which is a lovely venue. We were expecting an audience of about 10 but to our amazement had around 120. We played the set our way and had a ball doing so, and had people dancing; to Dylan! A few folks said the same thing afterwards; I don't really like Dylan but really like your set. Job done 👍

 

Hard to let the album go as over 3-months we've come to love it, but as we've all agreed, we're not in a relationship with it, we've simply had a brief flirtation. Time to move on  

[dmccombe7]

10 minutes ago, Beedster said:

In truth my fave gig for many years, not the most competent or accomplished but extremely satisfying. First outing for BandKamp, a bunch of friends getting together to rehearse an iconic album for 2-3 months, and then gig it live once and once only before moving on to the next iconic album. First was yesterday when we did Dylan's Blonde on Blonde (tying it in with the Chalomet movie) at The Ballroom in Canterbury, which is a lovely venue. We were expecting an audience of about 10 but to our amazement had around 120. We played the set our way and had a ball doing so, and had people dancing; to Dylan! A few folks said the same thing afterwards; I don't really like Dylan but really like your set. Job done 👍

 

Hard to let the album go as over 3-months we've come to love it, but as we've all agreed, we're not in a relationship with it, we've simply had a brief flirtation. Time to move on  

That's such a great concept you guys have. Love the whole idea of doing a full album like that. Well done.

Any sound clips or vids would be good to hear too.

The one thing that crossed my mind was how you all agreed on which album to cover. ? That in itself is quite a challenge.

Dave

Edited 17 hours ago by dmccombe7

[Beedster]

4 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

That's such a great concept you guys have. Love the whole idea of doing a full album like that. Well done.

Any sound clips or vids would be good to hear too.

The one thing that crossed my mind was how you all agreed on which album to cover. ? That in itself is quite a challenge.

Dave

 

Thanks Dave, it's a funny thing, I initially chose Blonde On Blonde because because we had to start somewhere, we wanted to do something that was classic but a little off the beaten track. Despite early reservations, including my own, we came to love it. It's a funny thing, when you have to play the whole album, in recorded order, the potential for disagreement is significantly reduced. And we were a bit worried, the final song is Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is very slow and in textbook terms is the worst song you could ever finish a set with (no encores if you're playing the album and only the album) but the vibe in the room was awesome as one by one, bass, then drums, them Hammond, dropped out leaving that beautiful guitar part soloed and then..... silence. Couldn't have ended better.

 

Next album is, to say the least, a contrast

 

Re video, we chose not to record, the whole thing for us is that it's a moment, we'll never do it again, so we don't want or need to analyse. We've done it, we move on. Lovely to see that around 50% of the room were recording so if we get anything nice - and in which the bass part is even vaguely competent - I'll post here.

 

Thanks for your comments mate 👍

[Beedster]

Re the decision process, I think we’ve all learned from this that it’s not the album, it’s how you play it 👍

[Bluewine]

On 19/01/2025 at 01:41, SuperSeagull said:

Sounds a plan.  We are pushing our fees up as well but I’ve no idea if where we sit versus other local bands. We just agreed two one hour sets for £400. 

 

I'm a big advocate for any good band raising their fee. Unfortunately musicians tend to undervalue themselves for some reason.

 

It's really a cool thing to go from extra fun money in your wallet to making money you can actually do something with. 

 

And I completely understand that some folks are not in this for the money. I am.

 

Daryl

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

Thanks Dave, it's a funny thing, I initially chose Blonde On Blonde because because we had to start somewhere, we wanted to do something that was classic but a little off the beaten track. Despite early reservations, including my own, we came to love it. It's a funny thing, when you have to play the whole album, in recorded order, the potential for disagreement is significantly reduced. And we were a bit worried, the final song is Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is very slow and in textbook terms is the worst song you could ever finish a set with (no encores if you're playing the album and only the album) but the vibe in the room was awesome as one by one, bass, then drums, them Hammond, dropped out leaving that beautiful guitar part soloed and then..... silence. Couldn't have ended better.

 

Next album is, to say the least, a contrast

 

Re video, we chose not to record, the whole thing for us is that it's a moment, we'll never do it again, so we don't want or need to analyse. We've done it, we move on. Lovely to see that around 50% of the room were recording so if we get anything nice - and in which the bass part is even vaguely competent - I'll post here.

 

Thanks for your comments mate 👍

 

I would love to persuade some guys to do either Supper's Ready, or the whole of Chronicle of the Black Sword.

[Stub Mandrel]

10 hours ago, Norris said:

15 hours ago, Muzz said:

On the point earlier, we've put the money up to £300 for 2 x 45s for a trio, no-one's complaining and the diary's filling up...

That's still pretty cheap, if you don't mind me saying 😀

 

Trick around here. £300 is pretty much the limit for most venues, you gave to accept that a pub or smaller club doesn't or can't get a huge audience.

[Stub Mandrel]

Fingers crossed for Thursday... odd early evening gig but we've pushed the fact our frontman/guitarist was supporting Cardinal Black for a huge sellout gig on Saturday.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Stub Mandrel

[Woodinblack]

9 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Trick around here. £300 is pretty much the limit for most venues, you gave to accept that a pub or smaller club doesn't or can't get a huge audience.

 

We get a bit more than that but there are fewer venues these days. Although I don't think we have ever done less than 2 hours, unless it was a slot at a multiband venue.

[Woodinblack]

13 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I would love to persuade some guys to do either Supper's Ready, or the whole of Chronicle of the Black Sword.

 

I did squonk once with no group practice as a one off. It would have gone better if I had sung it. 

[Franticsmurf]

8 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I would love to persuade some guys to do either Supper's Ready, or the whole of Chronicle of the Black Sword.

Sign me up for 'Black Sword'. I saw the Hammersmith Odeon date of that tour, with Moorcock reading excerpts from the books and Lemmy showing up for  a guest sport at the end.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Franticsmurf said:

Sign me up for 'Black Sword'. I saw the Hammersmith Odeon date of that tour, with Moorcock reading excerpts from the books and Lemmy showing up for  a guest sport at the end.

 

In that case we are both on the album 'Live Chronicles' 😎

[Franticsmurf]

32 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

n that case we are both on the album 'Live Chronicles' 😎

Do you have my Pentax K1000, which was stolen at that gig? 🤣

[Stub Mandrel]

47 minutes ago, Franticsmurf said:

Do you have my Pentax K1000, which was stolen at that gig? 🤣

 

Yes 😈

[asingardenof]

12 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

We get a bit more than that but there are fewer venues these days.

Same. Our singist wants us to push for £400 but nobody wants to pay that these days, so we normally get £325-350. He flat out refuses to do anything for under £300, even if that means we hardly have any gigs, so we're left playing to a handful of regular venues where we've played before because everywhere else is skint.

[mikebass456]

We only play about 5 times a year (at the same venue). We charge £420, as we hire in the PA each time, but tend to always pretty much pack the place, so everyone's happy.......