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I've been seeing loads of these on Facebook. They call it a raffle, often say they donate some proceeds to charity, but it all seems entirely unregulated to me. A mate of mine kept bidding on stuff and was trying to persuade me to bid on a huge computer screen. Then his sister started holding these "raffles" for random electrical items. He kept inviting me to bid. I asked if he'd ever "won" anything from any of these raffles. He had, but only the one his sister ran.

we were pretty rusty after so much time off but it didn't take much to get back into the swing of it

I'm actually on drums. That's Nick Bayes on bass,. He plays an American P he bought new a couple of years back through a TC combo. I have a little EQ, compression and saturation going on in the mix

Is that certain?

It's easier if you just call it a whammy bar

yeh but we can wipe them down. It's the baskets/foam on the mic, I doubt there's a practical way to adequately sanitise them

I'm thinking we say "bring your own mic, if you don't have one you can buy one of ours"

We've not actually opened yet as we're not ready. We're meeting tonight to nail down the formal plan. It's not going to be simple!

official advice is that rehearsals are now OK. I'm involved with a rehearsal studio. We double checked with Trading Standards who were telling us to stay closed, and they confirmed on Friday that we're now OK to open

Ah, sorry, I forgot I posted it here, should have deleted that. We've taken the video down for now. I think the idea is to make it more like a gig as we're going to keep doing these. I cut out the cover we did which will stay up

I play drums in this band and we did a "virtual gig" in a big room at our frontman's business. I did all the production etc. Video is not my thing but I think it came out OK

same here!

Hi All, I've not been on here that much since "lockdown". With the lack of rehearsals and gigging I've had some actual free time (as opposed to basschat free time) to finally make my own album. I played everything except the drums on track 9, which are taken from a live jam with my mate Sam Ogden. Check it out and let me know what you think! https://open.spotify.com/album/0IHpEhu6tv2N2gYPUBj73V https://weisenheimer.bandcamp.com/releases

The first ever paying customer to my recording studio, an old dude from Stoke, told me that he wrote Purple Rain and he had proof, but didn't want to sue Prince because he seems nice

So cool

I had this recently at a really nice pub with great (but expensive) beer. The last two times we were there we got free beer all night. Last time they just charged me. I'm far too british to ask why so I just paid up

Salty Dog in Northwich last night. I love this venue. We had a bit of a dodgy sound check. I'm on drums and they just mic up the bass drum here. He was just getting loads of boomy feedback. I tried to say in the nicest possible way that it was feeding back, probably due to too much gain, or far too much low end on the system/EQ, but the sound guy looked a bit stressed and I always feel so nervous about treading on toes with sound guys. Anyway, for our 1hr 40m set the only way to make my bass drum heard was to stamp the pedal like it had murdered my cats. My calf is seriously sore this morning. I took a look at the desk after and sure enough the low EQ knob was turned all the way up on channel one, with the fader right down as obviously he couldn't use it due to the feedback caused by the EQ. Very weird I wish there was a handbook on how to tell the sound guy what to do without pissing him off It was a great gig anyway, lots of laughter and loads of tunes we don't usually play, ace night

Katie Fitzgerald's in Stourbridge on Saturday night. The stage is cramped but I don't care because the drums and bass sound so f*cking brilliant in that room. It could be something to do with the hollow wooden stage and curved stone ceiling? I've forgotten most of what I learned about acoustics at uni. Anyway, we played 24 songs and I was totally knackered afterwards - ace gig!

In-Cider Festival yesterday at Pontins near Weston Super Mare. It was the first gig this year and it was ace. I forgot how great it felt. Can't wait to keep going now!

Looking forward to it!

very nice! Terrible production compared to Billie Eilish though

It seems to me, when the music stops for 2 bars and she says "Duh", that is very unusual for popular music. I can't think of another example like that.

I'd never heard that track so I just put it on. It's a standard 4 chord pop tune with dated synth sounds, same constant 4/4 beat all the way through. Bad Guy is extremely minimal. Generic bassline I'd agree but the majority of the sound is made from a quietly sung vocal which some very cool harmonies. The whole sound is very original IMO, almost as original as Bjork on her album Medulla - except this is full of "hooks" meaning it has mass appeal. On top of that, there are big breaks in the beat which is very unusual in pop music. Then the outro is very different, bares almost no relation to the rest of the track and yet fits. Obviously it's all subjective but IMO is a production masterpiece and very original in those terms

What about Billie Eilish with Bad Guy? It sounds very original to me and would have sounded out of place in the 90s, and it was a HUGE single

I often put stuff in my basket, and then think of the unknown expenses that might be in my future, shake my head at how stupid I am, and then empty the basket ...but yeh is it really pretty?