ricksterphil

I agree

I've played Oxjam Beeston 5 times now with 2 different bands, including the virtual version they did in 2020. It's always a great craic and the organisation is now superb. At £10 (free until 6pm) to see 100+ bands / artists in 20 venues all within easy staggering distance of each other must be the biggest musical bang for buck on the planet.

40 minute set as part of the Oxjam Beeston Music Festival, which is held annually in 20 venues in Beeston Nottingham with 100+ bands and artists. Fantastic gig and the crowd really got into our set. Oxjam Beeston, entirely run by volunteers, has raised £150,000 for Oxfam since 2011, not including this year. As you can see from the headgear, we're a Country Band

Vintage Trouble. They were awesome and their frontman is superb

Welcome! I shall think of you as "Friends in....." hopefully you'll get the reference! 🤠

worth a try this, thanks. I'm not sure many of ours are 140bpm tho...

Very true

Here's a suggestion from a sound engineer/studio type dude. " Hacks for musicians. Have the whole band practice to a click track. Get used to a click track at rehearsals. It will help you notice if you are speeding up or slowing down in songs. The final result will be a much more polished performance, both live and when in the studio. " Anyone tried this? I'm thinking of suggesting it to my band but wanted to get some input and thoughts from the BC parish first. Link to the author's FB page for reference...https://www.facebook.com/psyrexsoundlab I did some studio work with Mark and he seems to know his stuff

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School reunion party at Ludlow Brewery. Great seeing all those faces from my youth and chatting to people desperately trying to remember their names😊 We played pretty well ...a few fubars but no-one noticed Pic of sound check - hence no drummer

I've been there many times but not to play live. I didn't realise the Bang Bangs were from that neck of the woods 😊

Which village hall? I might have played in the very same one.

25 -ish, family on the way and got whizzed off trying to load gear into the back of a minivan on New Year's Day at around 2 in the morning surrounded by drunken Mr and Mrs Silly Billy. Gave it all up for 20 years or so. My drummer mate was in the band which became T'Pau but chose to leave before they went to London and got on TOTP......so near, yet so far. Later on he did get to gig with Robert Plant (post Zeppelin), so not all bad

Sounds ominous this cancelling lark. I'd give 'em the heave-ho

Very nearly played to three men and a dog on Saturday, saved by the fact that our guitarist Dave brought his family and friends along. A good night was had by all and we played well with no techie dramas. Pic of the band post gig with said family+friends Not a gig we're keen to do again..beer was ok, toilets were antideluvian and there was a crowd of crack heads on the street outside. Also the pay was sh1te (but that's down to us I guess)

Basschatters to cease and desist the 'gain' 'not gain' banterage .....and Mike Lull basses to be cheaper ....and Bass Collection to change their naff headstock logo ....and all amp makers to provide backlit control panels/knobs so i can see wtf i'm doing on a dark stage when I'm not wearing my glasses so I look more like a rock star!

My current go to, which is a Mike Lull P4. Everything is right including the weight, the neck dimensions and how it feels around my not inconsiderable paunch. My cold dead hands bass

Jazz notes!

We use EV ZLX 12's and love them There are some 15's for sale at PMT (used) https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/pre-owned-electro-voice-zlx-15p-15-powered-pa-loudspeaker-pair?dfw_tracker=165313-62471&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&campaignid=18870835083&adgroupid=&keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAjwrranBhAEEiwAzbhNtcBS-YhOBs2qkCN2zIIE5R3fLo74WT8emmOkTu43C1A03CZepHZAFhoCJKIQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Is that Rhod Gilbert on guitar next to you 😎

Nailed it @dmccombe7 😎

Last night's foray was O'Neill's in Leicester. A good crowd in who enjoyed themselves....still demanding more songs when we'd finished and run out of encores. We played well and apart for the odd glitch here and there, carried it off with aplomb. Here's a vid of 'Tenessee Whiskey'. The guitar solo in the middle is worth waiting for 👍 VID-20230828-WA0000.mp4 No fights this time although the police did cordon off a section of the street round the corner and some poor bloke was lying prone on the pavement 👀

Played the Queen of Bradgate in Leicester with the country band I've joined. This is the REM photo ( that's me in the corner 🤠). Great gig, lots of boogie-ing in the crowd and we played lots of country cheese, including "Country Roads" and ended up with 9-5, which is a lot of fun....we stayed on the intro for quite a while while the crowd worked out which song was coming. Turns out @Bluewine was not the only one in a cowboy hat 🤠. Oh yeah and there was a punch up half-way through the 2nd set 👍