How was your gig last night?

[AlexDelores]

Last gig of the year last night for us.
 

Cracking little bar called Vandal Bar in Warrington. Bit different to the usual wedding venue and a really up for it crowd, albeit small party of 50. 
 

This was wedding #68 for the year for us but it was the first one we’ve ever done through an agency and all went well, got the payment through nice and fast this morning so all ‘round a good first experience. 
 

It was a bit of a squeeze to fit in the corner but my ‘rig’ was my Gretsch into my B3, direct into the PA, 64 Audio IEMs and brown DM Thurston boots, oh and my SM58 and Tama kick pedal. 
 

 

 
 

 

[steantval]

1 hour ago, cetera said:

Xmas gig with local covers band 'Too Much Fun' at Thames Side Brewery in Staines last night. Fantastic evening.... 100+ punters in, all up for a sing and dance and enjoying our varied set of 60's/70's classics.... and there were some interesting ales/ciders on tap alongside some good food! 😉👍

 

Cool For Cats and Rhythm Stick went down especially well.... as did the Xmas songs (Slade/Wizzard)... but surprise of the night was seeing pensioners rocking the dance floor for our mental encore of Pretty Vacant... 😲🤣😂

 

I played my Jap Fender FSR 70's P, thru my Haz pedal, GK Legacy800 and Genz 2x12 last night and had some lovely compliments afterwards on both my sound and my playing, which sealed the deal nicely. 🎸👍😎🥰

Great to hear you guys are playing some tricky songs, but what’s with all the music stands on stage.

[neepheid]

Uh oh - shots fired!

[scalpy]

10 hours ago, tubbybloke68 said:

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 😊

Now that is a tasty bass. On my lottery win list one of those.

[cetera]

1 hour ago, steantval said:

Great to hear you guys are playing some tricky songs, but what’s with all the music stands on stage.

They have music and/or lyrics on them.....

 

 

 

 

..... and noone cares.....

[steantval]

47 minutes ago, cetera said:

They have music and/or lyrics on them.....

 

 

 

 

..... and noone cares.....

Never seen Peter or his band using them 😀

 

 

[dave_bass5]

1 hour ago, cetera said:

They have music and/or lyrics on them.....

 

 

Why dont they know them?

 

Asking for a friend 😎

[tauzero]

Last gig of the year for us, and indeed our last booked gig (see later) - time to get some diary action for 2025 (not dairy action, that's a particularly specialised area of Pornhub). The Walsgrave in Coventry, a goodly size stage area (albeit flat to the floor). I took the acrylic bass which I'd just sorted shimming the neck on, or at least I thought I had - some notes were choking out on the bottom two strings so I did some revised finger positionings with only a few cockups. Used the Sei for most of the gig.

 

 

 

And me committing "Come up and see me". This is as good a reason as anyone needs for me not to be principal lead vocalist.

 

 

One audience member came up to me after the gig and asked me where the subs were. He was rather surprised that everything (well, all the vocals plus kick drum) was running through the Alto TS408s. Turned out he was the drummer for Flat Badger, a Coventry band.

 

When I got home, after settling down for a bit, I thought I'd check that the gigs page displayed correctly as we have no gigs - it's supposed to show a message saying we'd got no gigs and to check back, but it showed column headings with no content. This was due to a change I'd made a little while ago, so at 3am I was unable to go to bed without having sorted it out first (didn't take too long though).