Bass on a train!

[SimonK]

As a regular train traveller I've found the limiting factor is more what I can carry/cart around. Even on a busy train you can just stand in one of the bike areas with your luggage if there are no spare seats to stack it on.

[chris_b]

8 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

No room for cucumbers or baguettes because of the armadillo in my trousers. It's really quite frightening!

Sorry I asked now. Scared me just looking at the photos!!

 

Be extra cool. Why don't you wear the shoes and pants on  the train?

Edited 21 hours ago by chris_b

[rwillett]

57 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Sorry I asked now. Scared me just looking at the photos!!

 

Be extra cool. Why don't you wear the shoes and pants on  the train?

That would ensure he gets a very large personal space around him. Solves two problems in one. 

 

I applaud your ingenuity 

[Leonard Smalls]

56 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Why don't you wear the shoes and pants on  the train?

I'll be wearing some sort of shoes and pants on the train... As for making space on the train, if the trews don't do it the after effects of my baked beans, eggs and vinegar diet will.

However, I'm in Blackpool for the entire 4 days of Rebellion, and as everybody knows, punk is just one bit fashion show which means new outfits at least every day. So that's the Sparklebutt silver spangly kecks with the biker boots, the zebra kecks and matching creepers, the snakeskin kecks with leopard print creepers, the Indian Project zips'n'pockets comfy strides (3 pairs in different colours) with co-ordinated 5-10 approach boots and offensive t-shirts to match.

I feel I may have to bring a servant/dresser as well.

 

[ambient]

I commuted three or four times a week from Birmingham to uni in London for three years, with my bass in a gig bag and assorted other stuff. I've even traveled several times with a double bass. I've honestly, never had an issue.

[snorkie635]

Regularly travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh on the train with bass in original hard case and haven't experienced any grief whatsomenever.

[jonno1981]

I’ve done this many times over the years. As long as you can place it in the overhead luggage rack if it gets busy you’ll be fine. Most of the time I’ve put it on an empty seat and no one batters an eyelid. 
 

Ive seen plenty of weird things that other people have brought onto a train. Some guy pushing a petrol driven lawnmower, someone with an old style apple iMac in a box they plugged in and worked from! 

[zbd1960]

I've taken my cello the train - which is a real PITA as the only realistic solution is to have it on a seat and pray the train isn't too busy. 

[Grooverjr]

4 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

No room for cucumbers or baguettes because of the armadillo in my trousers. It's really quite frightening!

Lovely - I toss them up, you hit them out of the park! 😆 I'm overdue a watch of Tap, actually. I recently rewatched Fear of a Black Hat (the Hip Hop version of Tap - equally funny) so it's definitely time to smell the glove again. 

[Earbrass]

On 22/06/2025 at 20:02, Leonard Smalls said:

I've decided to go to our gig at Rebellion in Blackpool on the train in order to personally save the planet etc... (rest of band all arriving on different days).

As they're providing an AmpegSVT and 8x10 I only need to take bass, helix and an array of funky shoes and trees.

 

Personally, I'd be more concerned about the trees than the bass. Especially if they contain squirrels or nesting birds. 

[chriswareham]

5 hours ago, Geek99 said:

And manage to remain so once you’ve caught the subtle whiff of sweaty pants on your food 

 

That's why you wrap the trouser courgette in tin foil. Just watch out for metal detectors at security.

[Geek99]

1 hour ago, Earbrass said:

 

Personally, I'd be more concerned about the trees than the bass. Especially if they contain squirrels or nesting birds. 

Or are large enough to need a seat of their own. I suspect OP may be thinking “bonsai” as a) he has limited luggage space b) can only carry so much luggage c) needs to consider whether they’d shed needles or soil over his in-luggage crème egg stash 

[Jackroadkill]

6 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

bonsai

 

There are where we get the timber for short-scale necks, presumably?

[Leonard Smalls]

9 hours ago, Geek99 said:

soil his crème egg stash

Oi! 

It's only me who's allowed to do that!

As for saving the planet, I'll be taking my Sandberg which, being German isn't made of ordinary rainforest-killing bass wood, but of Ersatzholtz which is actually sculpted from recrystallised oil company executives.