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There was about a third again I couldn’t fit in shot. It was a lovely evening I consider myself Very lucky to get to do this

We closed a Local festival in Cheltenham last night. Fun gig, great crowd, nice onstage sound, all good

In a sense

I played the Miss England show in my 20s. That was a good day

Pretty cool last night. In that weird sort of way that can happen at wedding gigs. We were at the Cheltenham ladies college in a lovely hall. Nice enough, went down well, trialled some new songs and ended up not playing that much due to some interesting traditional dancing thing that went on for ages! Still, paid well and looks like we’ve plenty more gigs coming out of it Local festival later. IMG_6611.MOV

My gigging board is in a Pedaltrain novo 32. The Zoom does all FoH sounds, the small preamp is just for when I use a passive bass to make sure levels don’t change from my actives too much. The sonicake and eq are to match my IEM feed to the foh. So any minor adjustments I make on the bass EQ to tailor what I’m hearing aren’t too disparate to the foh and match up pretty well. They also double up for if I’m running my headrush monitors instead of IEMs, giving me a bit of a ‘front end’ as it were. (I sometimes use two FRFR112 connected via the ABY switch) The wireless system is a cheapo job relegated to cable failure emrgency duty. you might’ve spotted the bespoke cable that splits off for my signal and IEM signal to the Rolls monitor amp. I didn’t like the wireless so had this made up. It’s ace! The others are my solo acoustic guitar gigs board, my going to rehearsals and home practice bass zoom programmed identically to my main one. And finally a zoom G7 I use for electric guitar gigs.

Last night’s gig was awesome! Once a year my band that split up in 2018 does a one-off as demand is still so high! (We can’t reform permanently because of various reasons) I play guitar and sing and did all the arrangements etc (and provide all the gear bar drums). We do bespoke rocked up versions of pop classics from the 80s to today. Everything from the spice girls to Bonnie Tyler gets the treatment. Plus some 90s faves that are more straight ‘rock covers’ like Therapy? Green Day and Placebo. Venue was packed out everyone singing and dancing and having fun. Lots of lovely comments from people, some of whom had travelled to see us. It’s was a lovely warm and friendly evening Tonight I’m back on bass at Cheltenham ladies college for a private do and then a local festival tomorrow

Yes. I switched to guitar for years which gave me a fresh perspective and was a nice change. Then in 2019 I took a full year out of music apart from one or two acoustic gigs. I sold off almost everything. It was liberating and a brilliant year. All the time and energy that went into bands and guitars went into rc cars, something I’d wanted to do since I was a kid. When I came back to bass it was from a much better place. Now I’m back playing bass for gigs every week and guitar now and then. I own no rc cars and am enjoying what I do again.

I don’t know why, but I feel like that’s a Johnny Brook

My (now) wife still teases me about the fact that the first meal that I ‘cooked’ for her was served on a bass cab, with cabs for chairs too

1 sounds like a modern p pickup to me, three sounds like a p bass. The others just sound like neck pickups. Great video and some great points.

I had a lovely set at the Gloucester food festival this afternoon. Started off slow and overcast and ended up busy and sunny The load in is a nightmare, so I just chucked my Headrush 108 in a rucksack. It was fine

Just me, my acoustic and one speaker tucked away in a nice bar corner at my end of term do. Did an hour, dropped the gear home, legged it back and had a few. Nice enough. Off to Gloucester docks shortly with the band for a festival of some kind.