How was your gig last night?

[wateroftyne]

7 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Be interested to see your set list. I was a wee bit disappointed with the Illegal Eagles yesterday, though to their credit they did a Desperado section. Looks a good crowd!

The setlist chooses itself, really.  The Illegal Eagles are obviously a lot more established, so I imagine they have a bit more flexibility on what to play.

This is fairly typical of ours:

 

[lozkerr]

Three-set outing at the Reivers Sports Bar in Galashiels last night. Six of us had to squeeze onto a stage that was all of three metres square and boxed in by railings. It was tight, to say the least. First time we'd played there and the punters were quite boisterous, with many of them celebrating Rangers' 4-3 win over whoever the other lot were. Dundee, maybe.

 

Went down really well, including six new songs that were having their first outing. Plenty of happy punters dancing and singing along. On the downside, the back of the stage was in almost complete darkness so I spent a lot of time squinting at the neck trying to see the fretboard markers. Then during the second set, my strap came off. I had to perch on the edge of my cab desperately punching out root notes on the one until the song ended. I think that'll be me out of the gear abstinence thread when I get a set of Schallers.

 

We're playing there again on the 17th May. The rig will be the same as last night - Sterling Stingray 5, Eden WTX264 atop an Eden 210 cab turned on its side (the space was that tight!). Something to cast a bit of light on the neck is on the cards - the light from my tablet helped a bit but not enough.

 

All in all though, a great night!

[scrumpymike]

3 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Link isn't working Mike. ?

Dave

Just tried it and it's working for me.

[WalMan]

6 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

Pretty sure it's this...

Yup🤣

[super al]

My first gig this year with my main squeeze, Felis Leo.

We played at the Angel Inn, Andover...my first time there. Back in my youth I would drink mainly at the Lamb, the Lardie and the Station.

The gig was part of a multi band, multi venue festival under the banner 'Andover Rocks Reignited' and I think we were the only originals band playing at our venue. One of our guitarists moonlights in a covers band and they were further up the bill, we were on at 3pm and they were on at 8.

There were 2 stages, one for bands and at the other end of the pub, one for acoustic solo or duo acts. It was amazingly well organised, to the second as well! There were screens onstage for the bands counting down to the start of their sets and subsequently to the end of their sets. This was incredibly helpful 😁

My set up was an Ibanez sr1205 which I haven't played in anger for a long time, a TC Electronic BH550 and my two Barefaced one10s. Had a couple of complimentary comments about the one10s and my sound so chuffed with that (compliments are rare so I'll grab em when I get em).

The whole day was actually great with not even a minor gripe about anything, got our photo taken by the local rag, everyone was in a great mood, spoke to people in the flesh who I've only conversed with on our socials and people genuinely enjoyed our set!

I still have the same warm afterglow now that I had yesterday 👍🏻

I've not received many video clips yet but here's a bit of Timezone taken by the singer in our guitarist's other band

 

 

 

 

 

 

[casapete]

Two gigs for me this weekend, both on the East Yorkshire coast.

 

Saturday saw me playing with The Alligators blues band at The Black Lion in Bridlington’s 

historic old town. Quite a large pub at the front, with an amazing room at the rear that is

concealed from the pub by large velvet curtains. There are raked pews that lead down

to a dance floor area, and the stage is like a small theatre, with a a large dB PA that 

unfortunately we didn’t get to use. Easy get in from a side alleyway so it looked like

being a great gig. Unfortunately there was a distinct lack of punters, but we still gave

it our best to the small groups of folk who ventured in. A great sounding room, and I

used my usual passive Precison Lyte / Rumble 500 combo which I’m really enjoying.

Finished at 11.15pm, quick pack down and home by 12.30.

 

Sunday early evening I was at our regular haunt in Scarborough, ‘The Lookout on the Pier’ with

the acoustic duo. A beautiful day meant the town was busy, but we got parked ok and set to

go by 6pm. The venue was rammed with diners plus a few guests seated at the back. We played

our usual request format, and tunes included ‘Samba pa ti’, a couple of Simon and Garfunkel 

things and ‘Copacabana’ which I’d forgotten how much of a workout the bassline was! We both

were given a nice tip from a visiting celebrity couple who remembered us from a gig there a 

couple of years ago, and also received an enquiry to play at the local yacht club from a couple

who’d arrived at the gig by yacht - who’d have thought that in Scarbados! 
It was one of those gigs where it all gelled - great venue, audience and our playing, so much so

that I genuinely could have played for another hour or more. Still, home by 10pm to pizza and wine.

 

 

 

 

[Mickeyboro]

9 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

The setlist chooses itself, really.  The Illegal Eagles are obviously a lot more established, so I imagine they have a bit more flexibility on what to play.

This is fairly typical of ours:

 

I Can’t Tell You Why, Best Of My Love and The Last Resort… all in your set and not theirs.  They preferred an interminable Rocky Mountain Way and Dirty Laundry. I’ll come see you next time, Michael. 

[martthebass]

Great gig at a local WMC this last Saturday for the Glam Lads.  It's one of those old school clubs that saw the likes of Bob Monkhouse et al in its heyday but fortunately is still doing well...a pretty packed house as it seems the locals were up for some 70s Glam.  A prospective agent showed up to view the first spot (looking to fill a few little gaps in the gig calendar left by the previous 'booker') so we were on our game and thankful for the large and enthusiastic crowd.

The agent, also a bassist, was complimentary on my sound...he said his expectations weren't high when I said I was using just a couple of MarkBass 12" but he was surprised with the clarity and punch.  

So all in all a cracking night and our next visit there will be NYE which should be a stormer.

[Woodinblack]

11 hours ago, scrumpymike said:

Just tried it and it's working for me.

 

Thats because you are on your own friends list!

 

[scrumpymike]

9 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Thats because you are on your own friends list!

 

Thanks Woody. I'm not much good with these things 🙂 

[Thor]

Two gigs for me this weekend, first was with Siren at The Boathouse, Bradford-on-Avon on Friday night - turned out to be a busy night with lots of faces recognised from our previous visits. We played pretty much all of our setlist but were cut short when the new manager turned on all the house lights and stage lights at the end of a medley that we do, we took that as a sign that he'd had enough, and so the crowd that had been up for a party all night, were calling for more to no avail!? 

  

A bit of a strange end to what had been a great evening really. Sadly no photos to share, as I was heading there straight from work I used my 'easy' rig, TT800, Big Twin II, Geddy Jazz with 70's P Bass as back up. 

  

Saturday night saw Sarum's Lot play at The Devizes Inn in Salisbury.  We were asked to setup in the darts room. This was the exact opposite of the previous night where space was somewhat limited, so was a rather intimate set up for the drummer and me, leaving the guitarist to enjoy loads of room on his side of the room - in fairness to him he does tend to boogie and is much more animated than me!  

The crowd were up for a good time from the off, loads of singing & dancing, even some air guitar!  This band plays classic rock covers and we were asked by a young lad whether we could do 'I believe in a thing called love' - we don't do it but duly had a go, and smashed it right out the park (even if I do say myself!). A thoroughly enjoyable gig with a great crowd - we all left buzzing 🙂

  

Same gear as previous night. Hopefully the links work😊

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16anAdo3PW/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1F9bZbTbBw/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

 

 

[Greg Edwards69]

We had a good night at the Cow & Telescope in Southend on Friday evening. It was a bit of a rush getting home from work, scoffing a quick dinner and out again, but we had more time than we realised to set up at a relaxed pace and soundcheck. As usual in this venue, it seemed a bit too quiet on there when we setting up, but by the time we kick off at 9.30 we had a decent crowd of regulars and a steady stream of arrivals whilst we played.

 

I made a couple of mistakes - including completely blanking halfway through the "Time is running out" riff. I put it down to not feeling 100% due to an iffy stomach I've had for a few days. I managed to blag my way through it and remembered it by the second or third time round.

 

I noticed a couple of guys pointing and watching me intently during "Runaway Baby". I'm unsure if they were impressed or spotted errors in my playing! 😄. Another patron came up to me when we had finished and said it was so refreshing to see a band actually move around and put on a show, rather than just standing stock still and looking at our guitars and feet.

 

A couple of our usual mob (including my wife and brother, who are not afraid to offer constructive criticism) said the set list was great too, with a few songs we hadn't played in years thrown in. We try to avoid too much repetition - for ourselves as much as anything! But it all seemed to flow nicely and kept people up dancing until the obligatory encores were finished with.

 

So yes, all in all a good night. The next one is The Cricketers in nearby Westcliff on Easter Sunday. Out first time at this venue, and one we've wanted to get into for a while. We'll be a couple of members down (one of the guitarists, and using a dep drummer), but I'm sure it'll be fine.

[dmccombe7]

56 minutes ago, scrumpymike said:

Thanks Woody. I'm not much good with these things 🙂 

you and me both Mike. 

Dave

[neepheid]

4 hours ago, casapete said:

 

 

What a fantastic looking room!

[casapete]

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

What a fantastic looking room!

Isn’t it just? 

The minute I walked in I was taken aback - one of those places that you could use for so many

different things - all sorts of live music, theatre & performance, as well as a banging venue for 

a great party! Shame it’s 40 miles from where I live though. 

 

 

[ezbass]

7 hours ago, casapete said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the seating looking very pew like, I would have been hard pushed not to say, “Dearly beloved, let us play,” in that environment. Nice venue.

Edited yesterday at 15:01 by ezbass

[lozkerr]

10 minutes ago, ezbass said:

With the seating looking very pew like, I would have been hard pushed not to say, “Dearly beloved, let us play,” in that environment. Nice venue.

I'd have done that! Be rude not to 😉

[Stub Mandrel]

17 hours ago, super al said:

There were screens onstage for the bands counting down to the start of their sets and subsequently to the end of their sets. This was incredibly helpful 😁

 

Brilliant idea!

[Stub Mandrel]

I won't be reporting on Saturday's gig as when the bandmember who booked it contacted them today they said they had no record of it. He shared the conversation with them but only got a vague apology 😞 

 

At least we didn't turn up...

[Woodinblack]

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I won't be reporting on Saturday's gig as when the bandmember who booked it contacted them today they said they had no record of it. He shared the conversation with them but only got a vague apology 😞 

 

At least we didn't turn up...

 

Yeh, what we had at new years, wouldn't have known anything about it if someone else hadn't told us some other band were on.

[tauzero]

Saturday night was a local WMC. Local to me, that is, the rest of the band had a bit further to travel. I'd played here about 15 years ago with a club band and remembered it having a nice big stage. I think it was the first experience for the rest of the band of having the bingo between the first and second sets. Load in and out wasn't the greatest as it's a longer walk than I'd like, but with four people doing it it's not so bad. We didn't use our frame to hang the banner from as there was a rail above the light curtain at the back which was a convenient height.

 

Following my experience with the originals band where we used my Alto TS408s as monitors and they proved more suited than the Alto TS308s, I swapped roles and used the 308s for FOH and the 408s as monitors. That all went well. Sound was good on stage and off.

 

The gig went well. Not too many cockups, none really noticeable. I used the Sei Original 5 headless fretless and the Antoniotsai 5 dragon bass, through a Lekato WS-90 wireless and Zoom MS-60B to Tecamp Puma 900 and GR Bass AT212. Footwear was, as always, unbranded memory foam trainers from Ebay. 

 

 

Edit to add: they've just contacted us and asked us to go back there in August. I think that's the measure of a successful gig.

Edited yesterday at 19:34 by tauzero

[dmccombe7]

10 hours ago, martthebass said:

Great gig at a local WMC this last Saturday for the Glam Lads.  It's one of those old school clubs that saw the likes of Bob Monkhouse et al in its heyday but fortunately is still doing well...a pretty packed house as it seems the locals were up for some 70s Glam.  A prospective agent showed up to view the first spot (looking to fill a few little gaps in the gig calendar left by the previous 'booker') so we were on our game and thankful for the large and enthusiastic crowd.

The agent, also a bassist, was complimentary on my sound...he said his expectations weren't high when I said I was using just a couple of MarkBass 12" but he was surprised with the clarity and punch.  

So all in all a cracking night and our next visit there will be NYE which should be a stormer.

Those little MB combos and cabs are very deceiving. I couldn't quite hear myself on stage but move out front and its right there in the mix. I kinda miss my MB rig. Nice tone that just works in a full band set up.

We keep looking at Agents but can't find a decent honest one. Perhaps those 2 traits don't go hand in hand. 

Dave

[BassTool]

21 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

The setlist chooses itself, really.  The Illegal Eagles are obviously a lot more established, so I imagine they have a bit more flexibility on what to play.

This is fairly typical of ours:

 

Cracking band that @wateroftyne , and what a setlist! 😳👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

 

Great showreel on your website too from Dee and the lads, great lineup 👌🏼😜

[martthebass]

36 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Those little MB combos and cabs are very deceiving. I couldn't quite hear myself on stage but move out front and its right there in the mix. I kinda miss my MB rig. Nice tone that just works in a full band set up.

We keep looking at Agents but can't find a decent honest one. Perhaps those 2 traits don't go hand in hand. 

Dave

Cheers Dave, I’ve often looked at replacing them but cant find anything as good that fit in the boot of me Mini 😂

 

[dmccombe7]

11 minutes ago, martthebass said:

Cheers Dave, I’ve often looked at replacing them but cant find anything as good that fit in the boot of me Mini 😂

 

They do punch well above their physical size plus they are quite a loud amp.

When i had them i never went thru any PA and was playing decent sized clubs with them too.

Stick with them. If they work, they work. Don't fix what aint broke. I'm afraid i sold mine and have been looking ever since. 

Dave