Clarebear68

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1430568343' post='2762690'] shout me up if you come down to Kent [/quote] 👍

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1430498384' post='2762117'] bugger, Manchester is about 5 hrs away. [/quote] 😒 though we've just been picked up by an agency so we're hoping for some gigs nationwide.

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1430416413' post='2761264'] Me Pink Floyd tribute band - Welsh Floyd [/quote] Do you have any gigs near Manchester coming up?

[quote name='police squad' timestamp='1430467765' post='2761615'] As some of you know, I'm in a Police tribute. I've done two in the past 8 or so years but my current one has an amazing Copeland. There is one youtube video of us with me dropping an absolute howler but I'll try and find it I can't paste the link in. I used to be able to. aha done it now, in a slightly later post [/quote] I would love to be in a Police tribute but my singing is appalling! Mind you, some might say so is my bass playing! 😝

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1430423939' post='2761390'] i love the Smiths, where's your gig? [/quote] It's a showcase gig at the MROBlackroom at the the Ducie Bridge Inn in Manchester. Free entry. We go on at 8 😀

Playing bass for a recently setup Smiths Tribute ('These Smiths') ... first gig is this Sunday!

Reggatta de Blanc - The Police

London Calling Pump it Up Rio Going Underground Kids in America Message in a Bottle Town Called Malice My Girl I Can't go for That

RIP - a bona fide great

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1410383357' post='2548943'] In which case.... Puckoon - Spike Milligan Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [/quote] +1 ... I must have read Catch 22 half a dozen times now and it still makes me cry laughing!

Rio - Duran Duran Regatta De Blanc - The Police Cool Steady and Easy - Brooklyn Funk Essentials Bring on the Night - Sting 25th Anniversary Reunion - Dave Brubeck Quartet The Doors - The Doors Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches - Happy Mondays Ritual De Lo Habitual - Janes Addiction Ten - Pearl Jam Grace - Jeff Buckley Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus Kid A - Radiohead Odelay - Beck

[quote name='garryc300' timestamp='1393689319' post='2383393'] Go West were the best band I ever seen live...Graham Edwards on bass and the late and great Alan Murphy on guitar. the entire band were top notch session players and this was the moment I kinew my destiny was to be a Status Graphite bass player [/quote] +1

Stewart Copeland Steve Jansen Roger Taylor (Duran)

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1387044938' post='2307772'] Another great set list [/quote] Cheers rogerstodge

Some of these get taken out or moved around depending on the type of crowd or their reactions to certain songs, but usually the two sets are based around these tunes... Set 1 London Calling Pump It Up My Girl Gangsters Start Ant Music Chant No 1 Let’s Dance Feels Like Heaven Hungry Like The Wolf Fantastic Day I Fought The Law The Love Cats My Sharona Every Little Thing she does is Magic Town Called Malice Set 2 Going Underground Start Me Up Wouldn’t it be good Come Back And Stay Dance Little Sister Big Mouth Strikes Again Save A Prayer New Sensation Friday I’m In Love Everybody Wants To Rule The World Girls On Film Eton Rifles Rock The Casbah Turning Japanese Baggy Trousers Rio Message In A Bottle Kids In America

+1 for Rio and also Rappers Delight/Good Times

The covers band I'm in started doing just general covers from different decades but ended up doing just 80s as we were getting asked for more songs from that decade and that's what seemed to go down best with audiences. We do all the usual suspects (Duran, Spandau, The Police) and throw in a few re-arranged versions of some cheesier songs or synth dominated songs as we don't have a keyboard player. Strangely though, bearing in mind what's been said earlier in this thread, there doesn't seem to be as many other around here doing mainly 80s, they all seem to be either indie/Brit-pop or rock cover bands.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1381328152' post='2237670'] Millions of record sales say otherwise. [/quote] +1

John Taylor, Bernard Edwards Mick Karn and Sting at the beginning and then Stuart Zender pretty much re-ignited my enthusiasm when I was thinking about giving up.

Downloaded a copy of Japan's Quiet Life album this week ... I hadn't listened to it for years, now i can't stop listening to it ... the bass playing is sublime!

He's underrated as a drummer IMHO.

1. My Dad was a drummer so I wanted to be one but when he stopped playing he sold his kit. Bass seemed the next best thing rhythmically. 2. Everybody I knew was playing guitar and I wanted to be different. 3. I heard Friends of Mine by Duran and it blew me away - it's not particularly busy or complicated but it has such great rhythm and was different to pretty much anything else I'd heard. Plus John Taylor seemed to be getting all the girls!