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I'm at the stage when I'm wondering if it wasn't a figment of my imagination. Waiting for the email from Andertons to inform me that the stock ETA has been bumped for the fourth time in just over a month...

This is 100%, grade A bullpoop.

Noted, but to keep it the same for everyone (and so I don't have to go back in time and revise my monthly reports), I mark it down as the date of reporting.

Hold my beer, we'll be right down Oh, wait, you said a "good" band. nvm

@TorturedSaints, @MacDaddy - despite your late registration, I have nevertheless documented your journey on the road to hell paved with good intention!

Right, before I deal with that, here's August's report: Two more drop out, leaving 21 remaining. 4 months to go - you can do it. Maybe.

So, what are the odds the ETA will get bumped again tomorrow? At least the gap between the various dates we've been fed is shrinking...

When that happened to us (incidentally it was also a football social club) there was also zero audience save for the bar staff. The difference was that at half time, they told us we could stop and paid us in full, which was decent of them, both in the financial sense and from the not flogging a dead horse sense.

We are our own worst critics. I'm all for self improvement, but not self flagellation. Live performance will always have wee fluffs, they are but fleeting moments in time. Save the "perfection" for the recording studio, I say.

Indeed - last kick the can got down the road was 3 days before the alleged ETA.

Odd one last night at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh. Weird ebb and flow to the crowd, not busy, busy, not busy, busy then really unbusy at the end. Tales of fights outside the bar involving 6 folk and pint glasses being thrown around. Thankfully if true, it stayed outside. On the whole, pleased with the night though - 5 new (to us) songs thrown into the set and they all were played with minimal oopsies and went down pretty well ("Don't Believe a Word" was especially appreciated by a rabid Thin Lizzy fan). I got up to some wireless shenanigans, wandering off into the crowd during Highway to Hell and high fiving folk during the quiet (for me) bits. Some sound issues (chiefly singist mic feedback) but we managed to get on top of it. Good to be back in the saddle after 5ish weeks off for holidays etc. Gear was the Reverend Triad then the Epiphone Les Paul (not so) Standard into the usual Markbass tone cubes (Mini CMD 121P IV + NY121)

Reviews say a lot. The one you get might be good or bad, "better" than an Affinity or "worse".

Google "free PA hire" and see how many (actual) results you get...

F that.

Not a great one for the modders - not a lot of room for that preamp...

What a lovely example of how this place can be. I noised Davie up for his thoughts about a pickup he was talking about in a thread a few years ago, and instead he offered to send me the pickup to check out for myself! It arrived, I put it in the bass, gave it a blast, removed it and sent it back to him. Told me way more than words could have. It wasn't what I was looking for, or expecting in the end, so not only is Davie a gentleman and a scholar, he saved me £140 of FAAFO money. Community at its best. Thanks, Davie!

Your glorious exit has been recorded, sir.

A bit short notice (although to be honest, does it really matter - how many BCers are there in/around Fraserburgh? ) Playing with Nine Lives at the Balaclava on Friday 30th August.

Define "cheapy"?

FFS, so close - stock ETA got bumped to 3rd Sept at Andertons. Bit mean for it to happen 3 days before the previous ETA. What *are* they poncing around at? Maybe get it by... Halloween? Christmas? 2025? Whatever, I think I'm just gonna forget I ordered it then get a nice surprise whenever it does land.

There's an upcoming gigs thread for that sort of thing

In my experience, it's always DHL that's the problem. When I bought my Sire D5 from Thomann, DHL "lost" the first one. To give Thomann their due they sent a second one pretty quicky and thankfully it got through.

Well, that just makes it worse. It's simply price gouging then (unless they've got themselves entangled in the worst distribution deal in history - I'm really trying to give benefit of the doubt here, but I'm running out of ideas/options). All other manufacturers seem to be able to get their wares here for a price comparable to the USA one, even if it is simply by changing the $ into a £.

Yup, we have a cheese list which we will not play, but it's pretty small, basically Dakota, Sex on Fire, Sweet Child o' Mine at the moment. Livin' on a Prayer is in the spares box right now with its coat on a very shoogly peg