Merton

Here’s a cool pic which has been posted on Facebook:

Very, very cold. Played The Neon in Newport, which hosted the South Wales Country Music Festival. It’s was absolutely Baltic in the entire venue - no idea what was going on with the heating! Unsurprisingly a lot of people didn’t stick around but by the time we went on at around 10 there were a few dozen hardy souls still revved up for some country rock. It was my first gig with Katy Hurt, and despite the cold it was an absolute blast. Used my Zoot Funkmeister, a tiny bit of compression into my Trace TE-1200 and two Barefaced Two10 cabs and the tone was absolutely bang on. Shame about the cold but we all had fun It was hell of a long day though - we left early doors to get to Newport to rehearse first; and that presented its own challenge with a not-100%-soundproofed studio and a metal band playing full blast next door 😅 Finally left Newport around 12.30am this morning and was home by 3. Freezing fog on the M4 was… fun. All in all though, the overriding memory will be the 75 minute set and the fun we had despite the cold. https://www.katyhurt.com

Oh my

Collected it today. My word it is a beauty. First gig tonight, then more pics and words 😎

They were one of the original cabs, discontinued in around 2014 I think, occasionally come up on here. Similar in size to the old Trace Elliot 1153 but much lighter and sounded much better too

Booked in for a visit to Zoot Towers on Friday 2nd December - whoop 😎

40th birthday party in a horribly echoey golf club function Ron. Good crowd though, was great fun.

Flying to Finland stupid o’clock Monday morning so yet to work out when I can collect but… I would like my business trip to go by quite fast please 😀

I have no idea but I’ll ask him!

This was bloody fantastic. What a great band.

Oooh now there’s a thought! The first set are stainless Newtones but maybe in the future… 😎

Here’s a non-sunburst and tort bass for your delectation 😎

I failed months back. But I am now in a position of trying to consolidate a few things and not buy anything for 2023. Many people (for example @eude and @Quilly) have laughed at me about this proclamation. It’s probably true, if the Stoneham 100W project happens, but if it doesn’t, I am going to go the whole of 2023 without buying anything. Honest 😀

I’ve not heard from, nor chased, Martin since September so I think other things are taking priority at the moment. Will revisit after Christmas I think

Level 42 on Friday at the IndigO2. Taking MiniMert and MrsMert too, for educational purposes. I know their drum tech (he’s in two of my bands) and he’s very kindly arranged guest passes for us

I don’t think it’s worth the effort of carrying two cabs dude

I’ve gigged mine with a very loud band, it’s an impressive little thing. There’s a thread on the Amplification forum about this and other amps and their in built EQ curves which gives a great insight into why this sounds great and seems very loud

I think it’ll be ok dude

My ABM has a power board from exactly the same date… be interested to know if you find the root cause of that going pop 🤓

MAG

Mark King changes his strings from soundcheck to gig!