How was your gig last night?

[BigRedX]

8 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

The lower temperature was an easy-to-establish 'zero', the freezing point of water.

 

0°F is actually the freezing point of brine, not water.

[neepheid]

Enough with the flucking metric/imperial debate!  This is "How was your gig last night?" FFS!  It's bad enough when people start using it as "Basschatters upcoming gigs" but I've come to peace with that.  But this irrelevant bickering can GTF - it's making the relevant stuff disappear with undue haste.  Take it to bloody Off Topic where it belongs!

[dmccombe7]

Sorry

[Stub Mandrel]

[Merton]

5 hours ago, Merton said:

Being very boring and going back on topic (sorry 😆)

- last night was gig #3 of the Katy Hurt tour, at Hot Box in Essex. Wicked venue, great engineer, backline supplied by Ashdown. Sounded fantastic, we played well to a packed room who seemed to enjoy themselves.

Bass was my ACG RetroB (nothing else has had a chance since getting it tbh, it’s perfect for Katy’s music) and shoes were some new grey suede Chelsea boots to replace the black leather ones which hurt my feet in Bath.

 

Shirt was one of Gab’s (guitarist) because I left mine on the back of the door when I went to work first thing yesterday 😆

 

Photo shamelessly stolen from Facebook

 

Another shamelessly stolen photo with a better view of my sexy ACG

 

Edited yesterday at 12:33 by Merton
Wordy words

[mikebass456]

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Oooh! Thunderbird 4 😎👍👍

[lozkerr]

Just back from the Audio Lounge in Glasgow after a gig with the punk band. We were second out of four and went down really well. Quite a small venue - it certainly isn't the Barrowland - but I'm really warming to more intimate spaces.

 

The Stingray acquitted itself well, although it's getting a bit clattery. I think it's going to have to go to Chris McIntyre for him to work his magic.

 

The backline was deffo old skool - SVT plus Workingman 810. Awesome sound and it was great to feel the air hitting the backs of my legs but completely OTT for such a small room. I wasn't complaining though, as for once I had enough oomph to hear myself over our volume 11 guitarist!

 

[Geek99]

13 minutes ago, lozkerr said:

once I had enough oomph to hear myself over our volume 11 guitarist!

 

 

There are other kinds of guitard? 🤔 who knew ?

Edited 22 hours ago by Geek99

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, lozkerr said:

although it's getting a bit clattery.

 

Nirvana! 

[Obrienp]

9 hours ago, lozkerr said:

The backline was deffo old skool - SVT plus Workingman 810. Awesome sound and it was great to feel the air hitting the backs of my legs but completely OTT for such a small room. I wasn't complaining though, as for once I had enough oomph to hear myself over our volume 11 guitarist!

 

I would love to be able to have a go at playing through a rig like that, just for the experience. The great thing in your situation was you didn’t have to do the load-in and out! Result!

[colleya]

TTFC's second gig last night at The Garden, Chorlton. 

 

Venue used to be Font Bar but has just changed hands, so all the signs still say Font.  They're just getting live music up and running, so there isn't a ready made audience there yet.  Fortunately it's a local gig for two of us so we brought quite a few people, to the extent where I knew almost everybody in the place!  It's got a lot of potential once it gets a reputation and people know there's music on.  Bar staff were super chilled and helpful, always a bonus and never taken for granted.

 

We played well, although I made more little mess ups than I should have. The drummer is fettling the recordings, so I'll be able to agonise over them at my leisure soon despite being the only one who noticed on the night.  Two 1hr+ sets and 30+ songs (most of them new to me) that haven't all embedded into the muscle memory yet. 

 

Gear was Fender Japan Kazuki Arai Jazz 5 -> HX Stomp -> GR One 350 -> PA.  Footwear was Vans classic lace ups.

 

A couple of phone clips from friends. If anyone can figure out how to let me resize them please shout up!

 

Edited 24 minutes ago by colleya

[tegs07]

On 06/06/2025 at 09:08, neepheid said:

Enough with the flucking metric/imperial debate!  This is "How was your gig last night?" FFS!  It's bad enough when people start using it as "Basschatters upcoming gigs" but I've come to peace with that.  But this irrelevant bickering can GTF - it's making the relevant stuff disappear with undue haste.  Take it to bloody Off Topic where it belongs!

Indeed. Put your foot down. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. 

[Merton]

24 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

Indeed. Put your foot down. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. 

Give them an inch and they’ll take a kilometre…?

🤓

 

Sorry.

[mikebass456]

11 minutes ago, Merton said:

Give them an inch and they’ll take a kilometre…?

🤓

 

Sorry.

1.609km to be exact.

I'll get me coat...........

[Len_derby]

The covers band, Top Deck, played this afternoon at The Great Northern in Langley Mill, on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. It was the first time we’ve played there. Four-thirty on a Saturday afternoon is their standard time to have bands on. Unusual, but there was an appreciative audience up for a good time.

We’ve got a booking there for August Bank Holiday as a result, so a success.

 

[Norris]

You know when you turn up to a venue. The place is busy and very noisy. The staff haven't started shifting people, tables and chairs out of your way. Then the crowd are constantly in your way as you bring the kit in. Then you have to set up on top of each other, deafened by people shouting to each other. ??? Well that's how Friday night started.

 

Despite that once we had set up, had a few minutes outside to cool off and give some respite to our poor ears, we had a really good night. Some serious rocking out, some hilarious silliness too.

 

 

I took the Sterling Sub5 with the Stinger preamp (I really must come up with a better name for it!). It's rapidly growing in my affections - relatively light weight, close string spacing, great sounds. This time with no backup bass either (growing confidence in it). The Rumble 500 continues to sound awesome, even with the low Bs and Cs.

 

The purple suede Gazelles got another outing - not that you could tell in the non-white lighting, so I wore them again for a trip into town today too

[Geek99]

54 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

The covers band, Top Deck, played this afternoon at The Great Northern in Langley Mill, on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. It was the first time we’ve played there. Four-thirty on a Saturday afternoon is their standard time to have bands on. Unusual, but there was an appreciative audience up for a good time.

We’ve got a booking there for August Bank Holiday as a result, so a success.

 

Getting flashbacks … used to live 100yards from there and work just other side of the a610. Looks like someone painted it all since … and removed the axes buried in the wall. 

[Geek99]

28 minutes ago, Norris said:

I took the Sterling Sub5 with the Stinger preamp (I really must come up with a better name for it!).

Steve…

[Geek99]

20 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Getting flashbacks … used to live 100yards from there and work just other side of the a610. Looks like someone painted it all since … and removed the axes buried in the wall. 

For me the place had the odd sense of death. Not down to the usual clientele but a lot of people died of water-borne diseases whilst living in the pub as they dug the canals in the 1830s, as I later found out 

[Bluewine]

On 05/06/2025 at 03:03, casapete said:

Settling in to my new weekly residency at a local club’s rock and roll night.

2 x 50 minute sets of stuff for dancing, ranging from rockabilly and Elvis

along with some lesser known tunes from Eddie Cochran, Buddy Knox and

Dion. It always ends with a waltz, and this week it was ‘Until it’s time to go’,

made famous by Elvis and The Four Pennies,  written by Buffy Saint-Marie.

A lovely song but with some strange changes - glad I had a part supplied!

Nice crowd in, including a couple who regularly come to see our duo when

we play in Scarborough, so nice they made the 100 mile return trip. 
 

My first gig there using my own rig, so took along my lovely GK 800RB amp

and my Loud Inc 4x10 cab. Used my Precision Lyte passive bass with them,

and it sounded fine. Think I may take my old Precision along one week, or

maybe the Dano Longhorn too. 
 

 

 

 

I love that 800rb.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 02/06/2025 at 01:20, Bluewine said:

 

 

Hi Guys,

 

This was our second outside gig and the weather was great.

 

Bad news, before we played I tripped walking down two flights of stairs and I fell. All I remember after that was people trying to help me up. I twisted my ankle really bad. I played the gig sitting down.

 

I'm hoping it's not serious.  My goal is to be able to leave the house by this Wednesday. I don't want to have to go to the clinic.

 

We played well but I was disappointed in the turn out.

 

For all you seniors and pensioners,  don't fall.

 

Daryl 

 

I won't be gigging for a while. Turns out I broke my ankle. I'm scheduled for surgery Friday morning. 

 

Not fun.

 

Daryl

[Dad3353]

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