How was your gig last night?

[okusman]

Thirsty Pine in Gloucester. Nice big PA. Great audience,

Great gig

 

[Bluewine]

3 hours ago, msb said:

Can you bring a stool and sit down ?

 

I'm not sure when they'll give me the

" ok" to play sitting or standing. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

10 hours ago, colleya said:

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!

 

 

 

Wow! This is cool. It would be hard to find a female lead singer like that in my area.

 

Daryl

[colleya]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Wow! This is cool. It would be hard to find a female lead singer like that in my area.

 

Daryl

Thanks Blue. Yep, she's a find, I got lucky with this band. Still early days but I think we'll get some great gigs once the ball is rolling.

 

Hope your ankle heals up quickly.

[madshadows]

14 hours ago, colleya said:

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!

 

 

 

Your singer has a beautiful voice, enjoyed the clips, you all sounded great  

 

John 😎 

[bigthumb]

Whats the best way to clean beer out of a mixing desk? 

 

Probably says enough about how our gig went last night! 🙄

 

Our guitarist will need to give his pedalboard a good clean as well. This is not the first time we've had 'problems' at this venue so I'm going to suggest that we cancel the remaining gigs we have there. It's really not worth the hassle. 

 

 

[dmccombe7]

10 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

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

 

Not fun.

 

Daryl

Jings Daryl sorry to hear that mate.

I would add that i toured with a broken leg in plaster cast. It can be done provided your bandmates help with your gear, or you just hire a roadie as i did.

Dave

 

[TimR]

Bit of an odd gig last night. The rain maybe didn't help and apparently there was some boxing on and a local music festival. Maybe 30 people in. They appreciated us anyway.

 

Acoustics very difficult to manage and a few times I couldn't hear the guitarist clearly enough which led to a couple of very bad bum notes and a complete restart of one song - I can't actually remember ever having to do that with this band. 

 

I need another clip box for the lights. Carrying cardboard boxes across the carpark in the rain doesn't do them any favours, and I really need to reduce the number of trips. 

 

 

[dmccombe7]

Played a late afternoon gig in Methil yesterday with Blockbustarz Glam band. 

Ticket sales not great with only 50 sold but with a few walk ins we had a decent enough audience. Not the most enthusiastic but they dance from early on and we had the dance floor filled on several occasions with the floor shouting for more songs at the end. 

Started 4pm and finished 6:30pm with a 20min break in middle.

According to club they are seeing less custom at the moment and last week they put a free band on and the place was empty so not good news. Not sure what's going on there but hopefully they get to grips with it.

When we mentioned the Xmas gig on 14the Dec the organiser said it wasn't in his diary but he'll double check and get back to us. We'll give it a week and if nothing from him we'll take another booking. We had to refuse 3 other enquiries for Dec gigs so should manage to fill it. Another club in the next village have been looking to get in on the Glam thing too so who knows.

Used the Sandberg VM4, Shure wireless, Keeley Bassist comp and into Handbox WB-100 and the new Barefaced 212 cab. This was the cabs first proper trial as it was a large club with no PA support and it worked a treat. I could hear the cab no matter where i stood on the stage. Hollow stage so the bass does boom a bit even on a gramma pad. 

The Barefaced cab sounds very similar to my Mesa rig with the Mesa 210 giving it slightly more mid focus but not a lot in it. The tone with an all valve head is just sublime. The fact its a one hand lift with a single cab to a gig makes it worthwhile for me.

The one big change to my sound has been dropping the VM4 pick up height a touch. When i was digging in i was getting more distortion than i liked and i have never really been able to nail the issue. Changed amps, cabs but wasn't sure. Using the Barefaced cab which is 1000W confirmed it was more down to the bass. The gig last night proved it has been the bass all along. I tweaked it during the week and its now perfect with some distortion when i really dig in hard.

On a more personal note we decided to hit the local McD's and had a Big Mac Meal and i'm still searching for the meat. Apparently 2 burgers in it and i couldn't taste meat anywhere. The cheese slice was thicker than the burgers and the roll was twice the diameter of the burgers. Won't be buying that again. Seriously reckon the burgers were 3" diameter and about 1/8th inch thick. (That's 75mm and approx 3mm for the younger generation)

Next week is a new venue for us in Camelon, Falkirk. 2 weeks later we are in Camelon again at our regular venue for a birthday party.

Dave

[Woodinblack]

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

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

 

Is that from the fall at the gig the other day?

[Jack]

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

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

 

Not fun.

 

Daryl

Danny McCormack is touring with one leg* so you've already got him on the... back foot. Hope you get better soon man. 

 

 

*(well, he's touring with The Wildhearts, but, you know what I mean) 

[ezbass]

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

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

 

Not fun.

 

Daryl

DUDE! Sorry to hear about that. Hope it is fixed and able to let you back on stage ASAP>

[Woodinblack]

Well, I will do two, although the first one was last saturday, just hadn't got round to it.

Last week was a local 'pub on a beauty spot' event - they play gigs on sunday afternoons through the summer, and they are well attended. They don't pay well, the landlord is tight and he knows that people really want that gig, they do, only certain bands are allowed in. The venue is a semi-permenant marque over a fixed shed/stage, its made at the start of the season and taken down at the end. Parking in general is a nightmare, but the band have access to an area at the back, getting to it is another issue due to the traffic trying to park, took 10 minutes to get past the car parks!

This was the first of the summer gigs, so looking forward to it. 

Luckily got there before the guitarist so it was an easy setup, I took my BC12 speaker and a TC450 as I was a little concerned about the Evox8 not starting when we were at the last gig, and didn't want to be doing an ourdoor gig with everything through one Evox8, turned out nothing to worry about, it was fine.

Busy as usual, sound was clear and good, crowd were good, although the bass (the rick) sounded lifeless. Midway through the third song realised that the compressor on the 450 was nearly flat out, which was the issue, dialed it out, all sounded good. 

First half went ok, but seemed a bit flat for some reason. At half time people were doing their usual complaints about the sound, although not usual, in that noone complained about the vocals, I took the mixer in during the week a few weeks back and spent some time eq'ing the vocalist from a multitrack and since then he has been gushing about how it sounds, and noone has complained. People complained the guitar was too quiet, I didn't think it was, they also complained the bass was too quiet, well, not having that, so that went up a bit.

switched the Maruszczyk at half time (for no particular reason) and the second half the crowd were more into it and it went down a storm - the second half songs are more poppy than the first - also the new tracks 'A little less conversation',  'staceys mom' and 'all the small things' went down well. 

In the end we must have been going too fast or had too short a break as we started to get really close to the running out of 44 track setlist time!

Later someone posted some grainy videos of us on facebook, the bass was pretty loud in the first half!

 

[bigthumb]

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Jings Daryl sorry to hear that mate.

I would add that i toured with a broken leg in plaster cast. It can be done provided your bandmates help with your gear, or you just hire a roadie as i did.

Dave

 

Last year my foot got trapped under a forklift truck which fractured it in 6 places. It also did loads of damage to the ligaments. I had the metalwork removed 4 weeks ago and I'm still hobbling around a bit as it's not fully healed up yet.

I had to rehearse and gig sitting down with my foot (in a cast) on a chair which was a bit awkward but it was doable. I couldn't carry a single thing as I was on two crutches so bandmates and my poor Mrs did all the work, even setting up my rig. Upside was that I couldn't drive so I enjoyed a few pints!

 

 

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

 

 

[dmccombe7]

13 minutes ago, bigthumb said:

 

 

 

 

 

Last year my foot got trapped under a forklift truck which fractured it in 6 places. It also did loads of damage to the ligaments. I had the metalwork removed 4 weeks ago and I'm still hobbling around a bit as it's not fully healed up yet.

I had to rehearse and gig sitting down with my foot (in a cast) on a chair which was a bit awkward but it was doable. I couldn't carry a single thing as I was on two crutches so bandmates and my poor Mrs did all the work, even setting up my rig. Upside was that I couldn't drive so I enjoyed a few pints!

 

 

 

Have to admit i stood at all the gigs i did and from memory i vaguely recall my leg was a bit aching but not that bad i had to sit down.

Here's me standing at one of the gigs. You can just see the white plaster cast under my jeans on my right leg.

Altho a roadie did all the lifting of my gear i still managed to wire it all up. 

I was using a Roland pre-amp with 2 Mattamp power amps that i had positioned on my LHS so i could make changes as and when required.

Unfortunately at this particular gig one of the power amps started smoking badly and when roadie went to switch it off he got a shock from it. He was ok tho and simply pulled the mains plug instead.

Dave

[Woodinblack]

Gig last night, a wedding.

I am not generally a great fan of weddings, but they do pay well and many of them have been great. Normally it is a pain to load in and out while they are doing speeches etc. This one we had a little flap at the back of the tent to load in, but luckily it was just me and the drummer so loading in wasn't too bad, the guitarist came later once we had everything in. Quietly got everything loaded through the various speeches. 

For some reason the X-Control wasn't working - I know it wasnt the X18 or the router as I had wireless, but swapping cables didn't work. In the end the singer found if he started it holding the ethernet cable up, it worked. Time for some new ethernet cables!

They had changed their mind about the first dance song, and wanted something to dance with everyone with, but didn't have an opinion what, so we went for 'saw her standing there' as it is generally love based and we can't normally play it as the drummers dad always wants to sing it, and he is at all of our public gigs, it went down a storm. So everyone danced for 5 or 6 songs and then went out of the tent - it had been raining for a while and suddenly got nice. So it was largely an empty tent for most of the first half until obviously 2 songs before the half time, when everyone came back in and danced. we extended a few songs then had a break. Came back in and everyone had gone off again, half into the pub the marque was in the garden of and half outside, so we did half the set to one woman, who to be fair was enjoying it, and her other half came in later so there were two of them.

Towards about half an hour before the end, a large group came in and started dancing and enjoying it and then inevitably everyone was in for the last 2 songs and  after the landlord gave us a hard '1 more song' and we did that song, were all shouting for more songs. As usual.

Then as we broke down, or trying to, a couple of the guys were trying to set up a silent disco, which involved lots of them standing in the way while we were trying to break down and making it really slow. 

It was ok but I am not a fan of weddings!

 

[Woodinblack]

28 minutes ago, bigthumb said:

I had to rehearse and gig sitting down with my foot (in a cast) on a chair which was a bit awkward but it was doable. 

 

 

I did a gig sitting down as I had a knee replacement, that was ok, other than it being the hottest day of the year!

[colleya]

5 hours ago, madshadows said:

 

Your singer has a beautiful voice, enjoyed the clips, you all sounded great  

 

John 😎 

Cheers John,

 

Yep, we're very lucky to have her.  I've found a longer clip on an instagram feed.

 

Edit - no it doesn't. Account is set to private. Hopefully this link works.

Edited 2 hours ago by colleya

[bigthumb]

We have a wedding gig in August and I'm already dreading it! 

[Leonard Smalls]

28 minutes ago, bigthumb said:

gig sitting down

I played Morecombe punk fest a couple of years ago with my ankle broken in 2 places - even managed to drive there (left foot in plaster, electric car with one foot driving!).

 

 

[neepheid]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Have to admit i stood at all the gigs i did and from memory i vaguely recall my leg was a bit aching but not that bad i had to sit down.

Here's me standing at one of the gigs. You can just see the white plaster cast under my jeans on my right leg.

Altho a roadie did all the lifting of my gear i still managed to wire it all up. 

I was using a Roland pre-amp with 2 Mattamp power amps that i had positioned on my LHS so i could make changes as and when required.

Unfortunately at this particular gig one of the power amps started smoking badly and when roadie went to switch it off he got a shock from it. He was ok tho and simply pulled the mains plug instead.

Dave

 

Back then, could have passed for white socks - no biggie

 

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Lovely time had by all showcasing the new project "A little more Gilmour' Dave Gilmour & Pink Floyd tribute act

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, colleya said:

Cheers John,

 

Yep, we're very lucky to have her.  I've found a longer clip on an instagram feed.

 

Hopefully this link works.

Link was "private" @colleya

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I played Morecombe punk fest a couple of years ago with my ankle broken in 2 places - even managed to drive there (left foot in plaster, electric car with one foot driving!).

 

 

Bet you were straining at the bit to get up and do some pogoing at that gig. ?

Few of us have struggled on with broken bits Daryl @Bluewine so no excuses. 

Dave

[dmccombe7]

3 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Back then, could have passed for white socks - no biggie

 

How very dare you !!!! 😂

White Hi-tec baseball boots was more my thing at that age so you weren't far off the mark.

Dave