Leonard Smalls

Bit from our gig last Saturday...

Cheers! Note how the two guitarmen are beautifully hidden...

Bit of vid here from Saturday in Chester featuring the only song written entirely by MeMyselfAndI! I've reduced video quality a bit to save on size...

Flash, Bang Wallop - Tommy Steele

I just edited the post having replaced the track with a remastered version containing Bassroom and Mixroom... Hopefully should work now!

I done a small one! This is a funky little groove about the voices telling you what to buy and how it will improve your entire being. Gear is Wal bass with old strings straight into focusrite and PC, double tracked with 2nd track adding some Raum reverb. Drums are programmed in EZ Drummer, guitar is a Strat, keys are from Isis sounds. All rolled in Neutron 3 and Ozone 9.

We (Weeds) played at a small and rather intimate venue in Chester (G21)... It was our first gig as a full band for nine years so we'd spent a couple of days at my house rehearsing and drinking tequila. We don't really rely on any guitar solos - guitar is mainly rhythmic noise - and our singer uses a vocal synth to make weirdness. After being fine in rehearsal it packed up, so some improvisation was called for. So first song was a false start due to laptop sequence mismanagement, but once we got going it seemed to work reasonably well - cock ups were mainly guitar based which was good as much of the set is drum, bass sequence and vox. And vox coped very well without vocal synth, all was generally groovy and I even managed slap bass plus improvised jazz funk solo. No cans were thrown so we could take down the chicken wire after the first song, and towards the back I could see our own @lurksalot pogoing about. It's possible we may be asked back in the spring to play in a larger venue... Gear was ACG-Helix-BBE& Crown amps- Markbass 4x10 with pedal distortion and autowah. Shoes were zebra creepers.

Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire

We had a Weeds rehearsal yesterday... We haven't played together as a full band for about 9 years, though we did recently make a 5 track ep via the internet... Which actually got us a gig, so we had to rapidly and remotely write 5 more songs (we're spread across Europe, from the west of Ireland to the south of France). So we played 'em together for the first time. And surprisingly, it actually sounds pretty good! We're continuing today so we'll be a bit more polished though 2 full days of rehearsals takes it out on my fingers... Then tomorrow we bimble up to Chester - hopefully we'll get another gig sorted in less than 9 years!

James without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel

Guitar with teeth? here's bass with teeth!

We haven't even started rehearsals yet, in fact we've never played half the set together! We should probably think about getting started...

Come as you are... - Nirvana

Runaway! - Del Shannon

I rather suspected that... But a gig at the top of Beeston Castle would be great, apart from carrying the gear up!

Excellent mix of jazz, dub, klezmer and metal!

It's funny cos Beeston is quite close to Nantwich! I used to cycle to Beeston Castle - we'd jump over the wall and attempt to find the fabled (and no doubt non-existent) secret passage to Peckforton Castle...

For me it started when I joined the UK Subs fanclub at a tender age under the name of Marton Geerblorn...

Murder on the Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis Bextor

All that she wants (is another baby) - Ace of Base

Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan

I'm Coming Out! -Diana Ross

What a Waist - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

That Ain't A Thing, It's A Thang! - Dredd and the Badass Weeds