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Cheers! It came as a surprise to us as well, we hadn't heard anything until he went on and announced it.

Day 8 - Cardiff Tramshed. The first of the run using the keys player instead of the drummer. The main take-away being that I really, really miss the drummer! Some interesting happenings with the FOH sound, resulting in the desk apparently being carted out at some point. The on-stage mix went awry at some point as well, which resulted in me asking, for the first time ever, for some more guitar in the stage wedge. Hey ho, we'd been really lucky up to that point, so put it aside and head to Bournemouth.

Day 7 - Hull - Asylum I think it went well, I keep forgetting where I'm up to! I decided to support the cause, by buying a T-shirt!

I've been using this "big rig" for a while now and it'a still proving to be a source of amazement. The bassrig pedal is used for DI into the PA system, with the amp just providing a bit of personal monitoring. It can quite easily keep up with our drummer, as he's not a particularly loud player. The front 3 in the band are on IEM's, so the stage wedges are just there for us two at the back, meaning we can keep acoustic noise on stage relatively low. I was considering getting another one10, just in case I needed a little more displacement, but at the moment, I don't think I really need one.

I've used both of these for a variety of different cables. Both are very good and reasonably priced.

Day 6 - O2 institute, Birmingham Despite the initial dissapointment of finding out crowd-surfing wasn't allowed, we nontheless soldiered on with the gig. During soundcheck, we experimented with an alternative line up, consisting of the drummer and me at the front of the stage, but for some reason, it wasn't thought to be the ideal setup, although we did manage to capture a few seconds of footage. There's a rest day tomorrow, before heading across to Hull on Thursday and then down to Cardiff and the Southern dates. VID-20221101-WA0016.mp4

Day 5 - The Leadmill, Sheffield Quite rushed for soundcheck and an earlier start of 19.30, as opposed to the usual 20.00. There were a couple of moments of feedback from the system, as it did seem to be a difficult room. Aside from that, another great audience and we seemed to go down pretty well. The drive home was pretty awful, lots and lots of rain, then fog and some monumental puddles on the road. Wasn't fun!

Shepherd's Bush Empire! Brilliant evening, met some family down there and an imaginary internet friend, who I'd only ever spoken to as a part of Lee Sklar's clubhouse. We're playing pretty well (although I did manage to find an online review which said we were terrible in Aberdeen. Hey ho) and we seem to be getting better each time. Tonightbreally seemed to gell well and I even managed to do a bit of "Dad" dancing, much to the amusement of the drummer! The Barefaces one 10 with the TC head is proving to be astonishingly good, I had to turn it down on stage, as it was too loud! 🤣 Fortunately, it's only really there for a bit of extra monitoring, as most of the "sound" is generated via the bassrig pedal.

Newcastle City Hall last night. Quite a big one for our singist, as he grew up in Morpeth, so he was pretty thrilled to be playing there. There's been enough of my rubbish pictures, so instead, here's a nice review. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23087116.review-kiefer-sutherland-impresses-newcastle-city-hall-2022-tour/

Day 2, Aberdeen Beach Ballroom. We met Mr Sutherland today, who was very pleasant. Another good sized crowd, obviously not there to see us, but appreciative and friendly and they seemed to enjoy our set. We're stylistically similar to his music, so it's a dream support slot for us. For some reason, I always seem to have my eyes closed in these pictures now...

Just finished playing support at SGW3 for Kiefer Sutherland on the first leg of his UK tour. Went ok, didn't fall off the stage and any bottles of p!ss managed to avoid me. I kept mis-timing when the lights went up, but there were quite a few people there, honest.

I don't think so. You might be able to use a "y" cable to split your bass output to go into one side of the P1, but you'd still need to send to the PA and you'd (possibly) need a return for the other instruments and vocals

He won't be taking it easy, he's a workaholic. He's got a book signing coming up next week, where he'll be lugging piles of them into the venue. Still, good to see him back on his feet as it were.

True, but oh my word are they heavy!

Did you do all of your course through the OU? Fair play, a lot of people don't realise how much work is involved in it.

Not on a super cardioid, they have a lobe to the rear, so rejection from there isn't as good as a cardioid.

I did! Less than a week ago! 🤣

We're Americana/Country/Folk, so quite "traditional" in that sense. There's a photo of the album cover in the "where are you playing next thread" so I don't clog up this one.

When I joined the band I'm with, they did say I couldn't use my 5 string Bongo, which was probably a fair call given the overall look of the band. I did use it for some recording though.

We had an outing today for the 5-piece variant of the band, so no keys or pedal steel and the drummer played a cajon with a foot stomp. It was a private party for a local cafè, celebrating 20 years in business and done mainly as a favour to them. We threw in 4 new covers (we're an originals band in the main and usually only include 1 cover, just to give the audience some respite). It was an interesting trial, as we'd not rehearsed them and I'd never even played them before we got to the gig (some frantic googling and youtube videos helped a great deal!) Still, it was nice to get out again and it gave me a good reason to avoid "strictly".

A great evening at Telford's warehouse tonight, made even better by catching up with some old friends who I hadn't seen for 20 years. No photo's of the band or my setup, as I wasn't in the best frame of mind prior to playing, but here's a picture of the outside.

Had 2 mince pies today, so I'm practically finished for Christmas now.

I don't think it's a particular secret that he can't sing, but it's just awful. He doesn't seem to have any stage presence at all and the production in general looks and sounds poor. It reminds me of the annual "Christmas Wonderland" stories, which always seem to consist of a tired looking reindeer, tinny Christmas carols, half working fairy lights and a paedo Santa.

Even the backing sounds a bit "lacklustre"

The main photo was from a shoot we did for the 3rd album, it was used on the CD inside cover. We added the band name graphics and the venue put their details on it. A guy called Trevor Palin took the shots and then he and Dave (the band leader) worked on the digital stylisation of it. Dave's also an artist, so had a clear concept of what he wanted for it. This is the album cover. You wouldn't think they were both taken at a National Trust place in Cheshire.