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Nice! interestingly, EBS seem to be hinting at ‘heft’ in their marketing copy...

...or someone had bid on it fully in the knowledge it's snide.

I'm going to Hackett's Seconds Out tour.. If Nick Beggs is on bass, I'll be gutted. *crosses fingers for Pomeroy or one of the other lads*

Maruszczyk, Lakland, Celinder, Lull, Sadowsky, Overwater, Vintage, Bass Collection, Sandberg etc seem to manage...? Thanks for taking the time to reply, by the way 🙂

There is a parallel universe where Supper's Ready jumps from the end of Lover's Leap, straight to Apocalypse in 9/8. What a wonderful universe that must be.

I dunno... there certainly isn't another Freddie anywhere, but a bloody good singer can do those songs justice. Here's something I did at the weekend with Joe McElderry, who can sing the hind legs off this one:

Conversely, I don't get the point of changing songs for the sake of it unless it makes it better, and not just different.

I never took the plunge and went full-time. I shoulda. As this thread isn’t hidden away in OT I’ll not post how I really feel about ‘music vs. the 9-5’ at the moment.

I think the pinnacle in the genre probably occurs around the 2:30 mark here:

As I mentioned earlier, it's eight rusty screws. I've been though it, and I'm happy to report there were no tears, or PTSD. I'd actually forgotten about it until this thread. Still, I guess it could be Limelight's equivalent of the 'Barefaced handle'.

There's some proper drama students here, isn't there?

Right, back OT. Instead of us all grumbling into the ether, I thought I'd do something useful and feed this back to Mark 'cos I know he doesn't do BC. This is what he says: There you go 🙂

No, it's just a fairly minor irritant that the builder needs to address on what is otherwise a wonderful sounding, looking, value-for-money instrument.

It's not. It's eight little rusty screws. Thats all.

Yeah... happened to mine, too. Took a fair bit of wiggling. Ended up just replacing them. Sorted.

..it's worth mentioning that most of the pics are mine, but the official gig shots (obv) and a handful of the earlier rehearsal shots are by the official tog.

Thank you 🙂 I did lodge an official protest when I saw the stage plan, but I was overruled. Drat. Obligatory 'Sirens of Scotswood' snap, taken from my position of limited visibility:

No. The kids have been having fun triggering them on my laptop 😄 One thing I didn't realise about that song until I listened to it closely - the guitar riff comes after a straight four count from the start of the sample. I expected it to be more complicated than that. Oh, and the marvellous jacket Trevor Horn wore at the gig (see above) was one he used to wear on the Yes Drama tour in 1980. He's in good shape.

Can we all at least agree that they'd sell a shedload more if the headstock wasn't so polarising?

Hey hey... the official pics have arrived. Here's some...

All sorted, but thank you anyway 🙂

Sometimes the song is performed by guest singers in different keys. I think that’s what we got.

Oh, sorry - another post to sing the praises of the crew, many of which I know well. Some of these guys started last Sunday, and have pulled colossal shifts since. They're so committed, but face it all with humour and focus. I feel like a bit of a fraud prancing about with a bass complaining 'cos it's a bit cold. By the time I'd packed my bits up at the end of the night (30 minutes), half the rig and staging had already been struck. It's an incredible thing to watch.

Ah, thanks everyone. You're all very kind. I have to say, the hardest bit of all this is going back to the 9-5 grind, which I'll be doing tomorrow. Apart from being 'the bass player' I've also become quite involved int he show visuals (the creative stuff for the screens), so I basically get lost in it for a few months, so when it's all over it's a bit odd. I've got a couple of good gigs with my usual band next weekend. That'll take my mind off it.