Twigman

And another from Rome on 10th May: - it says 11/5 but it was 01:53am so the gig was alwats billed as 10th

Another dodgy punter phone video of a packed house on either the 1st or 2nd of March at AN Club Athens - we played both nights with no support - it shows some of the crowd actually enjoying themselves - and my back - i was almost unaware that there was part of the audience to my side of the stage!

Oi! Home taping is killing music don't ya know!

I just posted a whole thread of those...

Wanted to hear it LOL It is music after all.

Love that. More than Bowie's version Far more than Duran Duran's version.... spot on

I'd say it's sub-zero = part of the permanent collection at the V&A!! = that makes you a proper artist.

Some vids shot by a punter of our gig in the middle of nowhere in Italy 11/5/19

It's not really a waste of time at all. On the stages I play, i am stage right, the guitar is stage left, perhaps 5 or more metres away..we have a mic'd drum kit in between. the keyboard player is on my side of the stage and is DI'd into the desk, only monitoring on the stage wedges. Much of our music's tempo is dictated by the guitar delay so it's imperative that we can all hear it. Without wedges I wouldn't hear it at all. We all take cues from various instruments at various times throughout the set - it's very important to strike the right balance or you lose a lot of feel and stop working together as a band.....we're not a collection of individuals, doing our own thing, we're a band, we feed each other.

I'm not bothered at all about hearing myself - I'm stood in front of my amp, it's never a problem - it's hearing the others that's important - if you can't hear what the others are doing you're not going to sound any good, as a band, out front.

I order it online and it gets delivered in a plain brown wrapping. Nobody's any the wiser.

Have you ever found an unexpected reference to your band? In the movie '500 days of summer' there's this: - see record divider bottom left...

It's not meant to be, is it? If I (accidentally) kick off my compressor mid song I absolutely can hear the difference

I think many who are mystified by compressors believe they do nothing because what they hear is more like what they think they should be hearing.

Yes really - the compressor makes the notes more consistent. That's what they're for - squeezing the peaks and raising the troughs, squeezing the waveform - making the whole sound more consistent.

Compressors, set up well, make you sound like a far better player than you really are.

Get a waistcoat with velvet buttons.

Another slightly related story. As some of you may know one of my bandmates is in a global DJ act and is significantly more famous than I am ( 2xgrammy award nominee). When we were in US, touring with SL&G, we were walking down the shopping street in Santa Monica. People kept coming up to us and were asking me if they could have a selfie with him. I think they assumed I was his minder or something. My response was always "why don't you ask him?" after which I was elbowed out of the way so they could get their selfie. I'll wager none of them even knew our band exists.

No I hadn't