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Any chance you can bring this to Salisbury? I'd love to watch this 😍

During the peak of Britpop and whilst at Edinburgh festival, my girlfriend at the time and I met up with her posh family (over from the Cayman Islands!). Her posh auntie said to me "are you a fan of Blur or Oasis?" "I'm more into Supergrass really" I say...a great conversation killer 😄 I'm glad @Bagman found a copy, I was about to crawl into the loft space where there's a pile of Bass magazines and spiders 😂 I'm sure Mick Quinn is in there somewhere.

Nah, just a diet of Wotsits and Cider 😂

Yet another Salisbury Live gig but proper old school Salisbury Live...we're playing the same night as a bunch of other bands are playing boozers around town. Not sure but we might be the only originals band on that night so we'll have to push a little harder to get an audience that usually want something familiar sounding. Hopefully the Muppet image will help 😂

Rehearsed with my old soul band as a dep on Friday. Last time I depped was 18 months ago so a few new songs to learn. I've not had much time to learn or practice their set so I thought Friday was going to be a struggle and occasionally it was! On the whole though it was a very positive experience. Plenty of muscle memory kicking in and some of the new stuff like EW&F's Fantasy and Let's Groove sounded great (for a first time run through anyway 😄). It was great to see the guys again and meet the new guitarist, their positive and kind words during the rehearsal definitely gave my confidence a boost. The rehearsal room is in the singer's garden and he has a nice little spot by a river, the house was built in the 1600s I think so it has a lovely ambience. As it was a warm evening he had the bifold doors open and at one point there was cheering when a song finished. There was a slight pang of regret on my drive home but it was the right decision to leave when I did...just maybe wishing the dep jobs came around more often 😄

Reminds me of my old band. We used to write and rehearse in the drummer's spare bedroom which was set up so we could plug in and use headphones. He used an electric drum kit so the only loud noise was the thud of the rubber (and he was a hard hitting drummer!) and the singer. The house was semi detached and he said an old lady lived nextdoor, gawd knows what she thought of it. Quite nice on our ears though.

Nice looking PA, I inherited a 90s Peavey (I think)...scares the beejeebers out of me when I switch it on. I reckon when humanity gets wiped from the planet only cockroaches and Peavey PAs will remain...I wonder if cockroaches make good sound engineers 🤔

I didn't notice half my G string missing 😂

No sniggering at the back please!

Looks like the option is "we'll make you look like a Muppet but you're gonna lose a string" (my 5 string Lakland got turned into a regular old Jazz bass with an extra pick up!). I definitely look better and happier as a Muppet but can I have my string back please?

VID-20250503-WA0001.mp4 Played a Salisbury Live gig on Friday at the same venue as @Cat Burrito played last weekend. The room is quite big with a dancefloor in front of a low stage and there are tables and chairs on a gallery area up some steps (this is on the same level as the rest of the club). There were three bands and we were headliners. Our drummer was drumming in the first band and singing in the second band so it was a little weird but we got to see another side of him and both bands were good. There wasn't a lot of audience throughout the evening but enough for it not to be embarrassing and consider it a 'paid rehearsal'. I'd say the fact that there seemed to be very little promotion apart from what the bands put in themselves, the venue is out of town and there's loads going on in Salisbury this weekend contributed to a low turnout. Having said that, the evening was great fun and we got another gig out of it later this year...with a guaranteed audience 👍🏻 Back to my Airwalk Ones (worn out soles but comfy!) Spoke to the other bands' bassist and we had a connection to a local band from the early 90s so that was cool. Short video from the outro to Butterflies (slightly cut short 😬)

John, who organised it, has posted pics from the night. There's a video and a couple of pics of your band. John was a sound and lights man at one of our gigs and said "where have you guys been hiding?". He's been very supportive and came along to our last gig. He's a good fella.

Our drummer went to that gig, his mate was playing in Folk'd About. He was also checking out the venue as we're playing there this Friday. That is a very cool pose, I have hat envy too!

Yep, love Odelay. I think it was Q magazine who reviewed it and gave it 3/5... I thought "they didn't even listen to it!" I think it's the Dust Brothers twiddling the faders, same as the sublime sample heavy sophomore album from the Beasties, Paul's Boutique which blew my mind. Midnite Vultures tapped into the Funkadelic/Bootsy/Prince side of my brain so that was on in the car all the time...blimey, I miss getting excited about someone releasing an album ☹️ Seen Beck a couple times live and he never disappoints

PS If any band wants a support act in any of the above places get in touch...we RAWK 🤘🏻

One of our guitarists is in a covers band which means we're fighting against the fact that he's booked up months in advance (after a lil' pushback he has now asked them not to book so many gigs). There's not many opportunities for an originals band in Salisbury especially when the main pub for bands won't even return your calls, emails, messages. We're a bit lazy 😂, we should be trying Southampton, Winchester, Bournemouth and Swindon but we're in our 50s and too old for this lark! It's great fun though, I love it 😃

Gosh! Felis Leo gigs are suddenly like buses...full of people and moving? ...no, turning up every two weeks 😄 We're playing again in the 'burbs of smallsbury, this time both our supports are the drummer's other bands!

Played 2nd on the bill in a 4 band/artists gig in Alderbury (village close to Salisbury). It was a fundraiser for a Salisbury Live event in June called Picnic in the Park. It was a social club and a good mix of locals, band members, friends and family in there, pretty busy and a good atmosphere. Our drummer did his solo act before we went on, he sings and plays guitar in his own band. Our set went well, some of those that have seen us before said we get better every time they see us... I guess the songs are becoming more familiar 😂 I enjoyed the night, the last band played covers but threw in a few curve balls that I enjoyed (I am the resurrection, who covers that?! Brilliant!). For the shoe fetish crew - a pair of scruffy Lee Copper Converse fakes. Normally I wear my Airwalks but wanted a change. As an aside, my 87 yr old dad watched me lace up a shoe today and told me off. Apparently they taught him how to lace up his boots during National Service so that you could cut the laces with a knife easily and get your boots off quickly if you needed to...every day is a school day 😁

Another month, another gig 😂 The joys of being in a band that plays originals is you get the weekends off as well as the rest of the week! We're playing the Alderbury Social Club this Saturday, our 2nd gig of the year so we shouldn't be that rusty. Oh, and our drummer Darrell is on before us...hope people don't get bored of a 45min drum solo 😄

My first gig this year with my main squeeze, Felis Leo. We played at the Angel Inn, Andover...my first time there. Back in my youth I would drink mainly at the Lamb, the Lardie and the Station. The gig was part of a multi band, multi venue festival under the banner 'Andover Rocks Reignited' and I think we were the only originals band playing at our venue. One of our guitarists moonlights in a covers band and they were further up the bill, we were on at 3pm and they were on at 8. There were 2 stages, one for bands and at the other end of the pub, one for acoustic solo or duo acts. It was amazingly well organised, to the second as well! There were screens onstage for the bands counting down to the start of their sets and subsequently to the end of their sets. This was incredibly helpful 😁 My set up was an Ibanez sr1205 which I haven't played in anger for a long time, a TC Electronic BH550 and my two Barefaced one10s. Had a couple of complimentary comments about the one10s and my sound so chuffed with that (compliments are rare so I'll grab em when I get em). The whole day was actually great with not even a minor gripe about anything, got our photo taken by the local rag, everyone was in a great mood, spoke to people in the flesh who I've only conversed with on our socials and people genuinely enjoyed our set! I still have the same warm afterglow now that I had yesterday 👍🏻 I've not received many video clips yet but here's a bit of Timezone taken by the singer in our guitarist's other band VID-20250330-WA0000.mp4

We don't seem to play AC/DC covers anymore but some of our songs sound very much like the Aussie ric rollers. There we are, playing at 3 on a Saturday afternoon in a couple of weeks...our 1st outing in '25. Couple more in the diary already. Who knows, might even reach double figures this year! 🤘🏻🦁

Love that tag line at the top and yet not a hint of any AC/DC songs 😄 Whereas...

I don't know much about Peavey basses but I must've done some research back in the noughties on cheap Jazz basses and discovered that the Milestone 1 was a bit of alright. I was gigging quite a bit around Southampton (Joiners, Hamptons, Talking Heads, etc) and wanted a budget bass I could take along to such venues, a work horse kinda bass, not your Sunday best kinda bass. I managed to get one for £60 from eBay, spent a bit upgrading it and bought a cheap Ritter bag, wonderful! Still got it, covered in stickers but the neck is lovely...more comfortable for me than my Fender Jazz. Does anyone know why they discontinued it? The Milestone 3 has the Jazz set up but looks pug ugly compared to the 1. Was it legal reasons? Cost? It seems like a good quality bass apart from the hardware I guess.

First band I saw live, Portsmouth Guildhall in '87. My memory seems to think Larry Blackmon came out of a silver coffin as the band started playing the first number. I think I was in awe as I'd never seen a live band that close up and that famous! Cameo were like a gateway drug at the time, Funkadelic, Parliament, Prince, James Brown, Defunkt, Was (Not Was) soon followed. I still have much of Cameo's output on vinyl, it was harder to find their 70s records before the internet you know...ah, those were the days...fetch me my pipe and slippers sonny!

With our hit 'sex on fur' (due to our west country accent 😂)