How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

33 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Grumpiness setting in.

 

After 9 gigs in seven weeks (too many), I now have nothing until February as our venue for an Xmas  gig changed hands and I passed on a NYE dep.

 

Reasonable number of gigs lined up for Bendricks Rock but only a handful for the blues band as the guitarist/BL's indie band are hoping to issue an EP or album and do a UK tour.

 

Wento a gig with the drummer last night. If things don't perk up he's going to try and start a new band. I may or may not be part of it if a guitarist/vocalist already comes with a bass player.

 

TBH got a lot to handle with work and family issues (my dad passed away recently) for a couple of months but music is my therapy...

 

Perhaps I will put myself out there for more dep work.

Sorry to hear about your Dad. Never an easy time but your positive attitude, music therapy is good to hear. 

Hopefully things will fall your way and a new band will emerge from all this. As always family comes first.

Take it easy

Dave 

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Grumpiness setting in.

 

After 9 gigs in seven weeks (too many), I now have nothing until February as our venue for an Xmas  gig changed hands and I passed on a NYE dep.

 

Know the feeling - was going to have a big december, but one gig, then the private party on the 14th cancelled (fair enough) and the next day the NYE gig had forgotten we were playing there so no NYE. 

So that is all bad, but then a local club had a cancellation on New years and another one had a cancellation today, but our guitarist seems to have a hand problem so we can't do those, so nothing to the end of jan. I think i need to find another group to play in as well, this is getting quite common.

[dave_bass5]

We have our first NYE gig for ages this month. 
On the one hand I’m really looking forward to the money and it’s going to be an easy gig (another Retirement village), but because of where me and the singer live (my wife) we can’t get home in the car. We live right in the centre on London and just inside the restricted zone for the fireworks. Will be a long night. 

[Al Krow]

Singer (one of our regular lead vox crew) arrived 15 mins before we were due to start due to public transport issues, and was obviously stressed, bless her. I'd managed to lose my IEM headphones at a rehearsal (for our NYE gig earlier in the week) but didn't spot the loss till the gig, so I made do with standing next to the PA speaker for monitoring. Dep drummer was playing with us for the first time and we'd not rehearsed with him, and the venue, one of our pub residences, was rammed with Christmas party revellers and perhaps busier than it's ever been. So what could possibly go wrong?! 😅 

 

There were unsurprisingly a few loose ends! But we managed to get by with eye contact and put on a decent show which seemed to go down well, and overall it was a fun gig. A large receptive audience can clearly make up for a multitude of sins it seems! 

 

A little clip of the gig and venue.

 

Happy Christmas all!

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Al Krow

[casapete]

Just back from a gig for a small company’s Christmas party in Beverley.

Our acoustic duo played for them at a summer party last year, but this time we 

played as an electric three piece, adding a drummer. The gig was in an upstairs 

function room of a large pub, so it meant dragging all the gear up two flights of

narrow stairs which was a pain, but plenty of space to set up with only 50 guests.

 

Set up by 7pm so we went for a walk up the road to our regular venue The Sun Inn

where some friends were playing and had a chat and a drink there. Our duo is

playing there tomorrow afternoon, and it seemed to have a completely different 

feel to it on a Saturday night with lots of people milling around - maybe just the

Xmas thing. Back to our venue and there was a Ska band setting up in the main

room downstairs, but we didn’t catch them as we had to do our first set. It went

well, got a few up dancing with some well chosen tunes. Second set went even 

better, with most of the guests on the dance floor. I was just winging it, my mate

on guitar shouting out the songs, some of which we managed to join together

to keep them dancing. Dep drummer was great, not too loud and good tempos.

Company boss seemed very pleased with us, so may hopefully get the gig next year!

 

Used a replica P-bass into my Rumble 500 combo. 
No pics of the gig, just one as we finished soundchecking. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by casapete

[Norris]

Just back from Thurmaston Conny Club (it's more like a big social club than anything political). Good gig, although the git/vox was very croaky. That meant more singing for me and the drummer - I actually quite enjoy singing now.

 

Nice and busy. A few dancers, but most people just appreciating the music.

 

I took my Sire and was going to swap over to it later on, but had so much fun with my Sterling Sub Ray5 (upgraded with Retrovibe Stinger '77 preamp) that it stayed out all night. The 2-band preamp is great and a lot easier to tweak than the Sire's 3-band with swept mid.

 

The usual Fender Rumble v3 500 combo goodness. Feet were rock steady in the Solovair boots. I forgot to take any photos though.

 

Naughty McDonalds on the way home because Mrs Norris and younger Norrisson were feeling hungry (you can't beat a quarter pounder imho)

 

Best compliment was from a chap in the loo, swaying rather a lot at the urinal next to me... "great hair" 😂

[tubbybloke68]

Just back from our usual 2 nights at Trading Boundaries Christmas gigs. Lovely intimate atmosphere as always and only just under an hour’s drive away from home. Both nights went very well and I always feel Xmas is here on these occasions. Happy Christmas everyone, my best wishes to you all 😊