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[quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1372077882' post='2121244'] I have been looking at 09 reg Mazda 6 Sports hatchback or Skoda Octavia VRS which seem to have plenty of room but also been looking at BMW 3, Audi A4 and Alfa 159 Estates. [/quote] The guitarist and singer (they're a couple) have a 3 Series Bimmer touring (estate) which is brilliant for the amount of gear you can get in with the seats down. I've got a 5 Series which, if I'm being honest, isn't that much bigger that the 3 series. Little longer, little wider maybe. I think estates or hatches are the only way to go for gigging musicians. Some saloons do have big boots but the practicalities of getting the gear in and out of the reduced aperture of the lid makes it just a bit more difficult than a hatch or estate. T

As MoJo said, I think dropping half a step will have nominal effect on the feel and tension. Try it at the next rehearsal and see. If it's a big deal, try and find some strings with a higher tension than your current ones and then the half step down will balance it out.

Chris has just brought my EBS cab. Top chap to do business with, great comms, really flexible with collection and totally trustworthy. As BurritoBass says, a nice guy to deal with. Cheers Chris T

Saturday night with the soul r&b funk soul covers band at The Austin Sports and Social Club in Longbridge in Birmingham. Great venue, huge stage, huge dance floor. A good old social club setting. We set up, sound checked and it sounded awesome. Nice to have a big room to open up the PA a little. 2nd gig with my new Bergantino cab and yet more justification of why it was such a sound investment. It sounded absolutely fantastic. The gig itself? Not so good from my point of view. A trip to Ikea in the morning had resulted in a whole day of putting flat pack shizzle together for my daughter's room. By the time it came for loading the car and heading across Brum for the setup, I was absolutely knackered. Mentally and physically. The load in, sound check and then the hanging around didn't help. A few songs into the first set, I made a mistake. P*ssed off with myself, I was still internally cursing when I made another. And then a third. Rather than just recompose, laugh it off and then carry on, I started into this spiral of self doubt which really clouded the rest of the set. VERY untypical of me. As Bilbo said about his recent gig, nobody died. TBH, with the audience sitting down for the first set, I doubt they noticed. I was a bit of a moody sod for the interval and then realized I was being a bit of a d*ck so pulled myself together. The band were amazing, they were all supportive and understood how disappointed I was at my own performance. That made me focus a little more and we came out to do the second and third set and had a great time. After having done several corporate and wedding gigs in a row where everyone seems to be up and dancing from the get go, it's been a bit of a reality check that we need to understand that no matter how hard you work and rehearse, no matter how carefully you structure the set, some gigs are going to be harder work than others. Some audiences take a while to get going. A weekend off and then the rest of June with gigs every weekend. #happydays

WOW. Flipping fantastic that.....I think I said earlier didn't I but you probably couldn't understand because of the dribble?