How was your gig last night?

[Simon C]

A bit late,  but Thursday's Jam Night was good. We were on shortly after 9 followed by the band I depped for the previous Saturday (Matt Guntrip and the Roadsters). Matt and said Roadsters hadn't heard us play before.  A few of my mates also came down, some of them for the 1st time

 

The pub manager told the guitarist he'd had a few people asking about us and offered us a Friday slot if we want one. So I guess we either played well,  or played songs people liked,  or both. 

 

My 1st Granddaughter (and also the neice of the drummer), was born on 4th May. Hence I managed to get this one on the set list.  Intro to the song was along the lines of "Can you guess her name. No. No. No. Well there's a clue in this song".

 

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[Beedster]

Singist hits some loud shit in our Odelay gig, went great, could have been better, could have been worse, Beck has said the same about his own gigs

 

[peteb]

On 20/06/2025 at 10:06, dmccombe7 said:

What a coincidence. Nice one. Hopefully we'll get some gig pics of each others band from you both. 😂

Dave

 

So, played the Farmyard Party at the weekend - pics above on @casapete's post a couple of pages ago. 

 

The Friday was very hot and sticky. As we were staying over, I had to put up a large tent pretty much on my own (the missus is recovering from an operation on her hands) in rock hard ground - hence me managing to look sweaty, pasty and sunburnt all at the same time in the picture of me and Pete above. Great to meet Pete before the gig - I was obviously pretty busy trying to get everything ready for our show, so I only managed to see a couple of songs from his band, but he is obviously a very tidy bass player. There was a bit of a groan from backstage as they played a song on our setlist, but fortunately that seemed to be the only one, so we managed to avoid too many duplicate songs! 

 

The gig itself was a bit hit and miss. We had a (very good) dep guitarist and it had been sounding brilliant in the three rehearsals we managed to get in before. However, live there were a few adventures starting and (particularly) ending songs and a fair few missed cues. Endings became a bit of a negotiation between me, the guitarist and the drummer, with the poor keyboard player trying to work out what was happening from the other side of the stage! However, we got a pretty good audience reaction and had a lot of very positive feedback after the show (with a couple of gig offers thrown in), so it can't have been too bad - amazing what you can get away without the audience noticing when playing live sometimes! Gear wise, I was using the 78 P bass and the usual set-up of a Shure GLXD wireless, Thumpinator, Cali76 bass comp and Caveman pre into a Handbox R400 and Berg CN212 cab. 

 

Edited Wednesday at 15:47 by peteb

[Bluewine]

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Bluewine

[dclaassen]

Blu…nice job…love how calm you right hand is. Wish I could look that cool when performing! Don’t personally use a pick, but really like your sound!

[casapete]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Sounds fine Daryl - have you joined the Rumble club or was it just a hired in rig? 😆

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Liking that Daryl. Bass sounds nice with studio headphones on and its actually quite a nice mix. That's a nice wee bass line too.

Maybe vocal could be a touch higher but otherwise its good to me.

How's the ankle now. ?

Dave

[Muzz]

A lesson in How To Be Cool In 100 Degrees...loved it; you can see the fella on the left in the sun's suffering the heat...  Great groove and feel, you're making it look easy...which is the hard bit... 🙂