How was your gig last night?

[Burns-bass]

3 hours ago, lonestar said:

Had a great afternoon at Summer Soul Vibe Festival in Ipswich. We played a 40 min set mid-afternoon.

Exellent stage, crew and pa playing my first gig with my new Sadowsky ME.

The back line  the same SVT I played with a year ago at another festival, same hire company! Proper green room in Venue 16, with lasagne, soft drinks tea and coffee and staff looking after you.

Really nicely done.

Good to get great comments from the sound guys and I could see the foldback  engineers having a good time stage

 left of us. Which is always nice.and reassuring.

 

 

 

This sounds ace.

[HeadlessBassist]

Played my usual Everlys & Friends Live Tribute Show last night at Warners' Alvaston Hall near Crewe. First show for the full lineup in two months and was a belter, despite the ridiculous 30 deg heat. Luckily the powers that be at Warners actually had the air conditioning switched on, so playing was bearable! Two hour set straight through with no interval is always a challenge, but was very rewarding.

 

Full six-piece setup, including fake Grand Piano housing for Pete's Digital Piano!

 

[Merton]

A very hot sweaty gig playing at the new Rodeos Birmingham. Bizarre stage with the back end of a pickup truck slap bang in the middle, a solitary monitor, no sound man, a drummist we’d never met before, several drunk hen parties… had the makings of a nightmare alongside the heat.

 

On the whole though, it was great fun. We threw in a few covers alongside Katy’s originals, had a delightful interaction with someone in the break asking us to play all the artists we’d covered in the first set 🙄, and made a few new friends along the way I think. The dep drummist was fantastic, so he can come again 🤓

 

Bass as ever my sexy ACG RetroB, through Handbox WB100 and Barefaced Two10. Shoes were my Soul Cals again.

 

No decent photos of us playing (yet) so have a photo of my side of the stage 😆

[peteb]

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

The back line  the same SVT I played with a year ago at another festival, same hire company!

 

They've probably just got it back from being repaired after the last time you used it...! 🙂 

 

[lonestar]

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

This sounds ace.

It was my ideal gig, living the dream! Shame we weren’t playing for a bit longer. 

We’re back playing a full set indoors at Venue 16 in January

[lonestar]

10 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

They've probably just got it back from being repaired after the last time you used it...! 🙂 

 

HaHa 

What are all these switches for then? Does it go up to 11?  What if I turn all these knobs up to full?

Edited 6 hours ago by lonestar

[Franticsmurf]

Second dep gig with 'The Gowertones' last night - a birthday bash for the pub landlord at the Plough and Harrow in Murton, Swansea. The weather made the potential for sweaty, melting horror a distinct possibility and when I turned up, I saw we were outside which added the risk of sunburn. But on closer inspection, we were under a pair of gazebos and sheltered by a wall. By some miracle, the only breeze in the area was funneled through a gap between wall and gazebos down onto the drummer and me. I had a small USB powered fan which directed some of that breeze onto my back overall it was a very pleasant environment. 

 

We were due to play 2hrs between 5pm and 8pm and the crowd, a respectable 50-60 or so, stayed all evening. Inevitably, we played on and the second hour slot lasted well over 90 minutes, fueled by chips and coke (from a bottle, not a mirror) gratis. A great set which included 'Paranoid' (I've never played it before but what a great 'live' song) and 'YMCA' (please don't judge). My second outing for the Sterling 34HH/Ampeg SCRDI/Peavey Minimax/twin TE1x10" line up and it's really giving me a sound that I'm pleased with. For years I've heard that sound in my head but never really managed to get it and while going DI into the sound desk with my main band is good (for that line up, it makes sense), having the bass banging out behind me is great.

 

As mentioned, the kit list was my Sterling 34HH (mainly the bridge pick-up but for a couple of numbers both pick-ups selected) through an MS60B (for tuner/mute, noise gate and compressor) and the Ampeg SCRDI (with a shallow mix of distortion for the punk/rock numbers) and both bass and treble boosts selected. This went into the FX loop return of the Minimax and through two TE 1x10" speakers. The Minimax retains volume control when using the FX return so I used this to control the volume rather than the control on the SCRDI. There was plenty of volume without pushing either stage. 

 

Footwear was the now inevitable Skechers which proved both comfortable and cool (in the temperature sense) for the night. Although they only have one setting, I find that Skechers have nailed that setting and they work for me for all styles of music. 

 

Photos and video are slow to appear this morning but I will edit to add any that appear. This is one I took of the ground level kit. 

 

Edit: some images from video I shot on a GoPro.

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Franticsmurf

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, HeadlessBassist said:

Played my usual Everlys & Friends Live Tribute Show last night at Warners' Alvaston Hall near Crewe. First show for the full lineup in two months and was a belter, despite the ridiculous 30 deg heat. Luckily the powers that be at Warners actually had the air conditioning switched on, so playing was bearable! Two hour set straight through with no interval is always a challenge, but was very rewarding.

 

Full six-piece setup, including fake Grand Piano housing for Pete's Digital Piano!

 

Always thought those MB combos were a great idea where you could tilt back to hear them better.

Dave

[BigRedX]

Two gigs for Hurtsfall this week.

 

First on Thursday at Rough Trade in Nottingham Supporting the brilliant Miranda Sex Garden. Lovely air-conditioned venue which was a relief from the heat and also meant I could wear my normal stage gear rather than something that wasn't going to make me pass out due to heat stroke. Played to an audience who were largely unfamiliar with our music but it looks like we won them over, and consequently sold loads of CDs afterwards. 

 

As always here's some photos from the gig:

 

 

Then on Saturday we were near Ellesmere on the Welsh border for Goths On A Field.

 

The bands play inside a barn which could have meant it was like an oven, but luckily it turned out to be marginally cooler in barn than outside in the field. My sister (who last saw me play live in 1985) and her husband who live nearby came along and seemed to enjoy it almost as much as our usual Goth audience. Plenty of people up and dancing from the first song, and the new song we were playing for the very first time got a great response. Despite the fact that most of the audience must have seen us play before we still sold a decent amount of merch and we had a number of people saying that we were their favourite band of the weekend which given who else was playing was high praise indeed!

 

No photos as yet, but I'm sure there will be some posted when everyone is back home later today or tomorrow.

 

For both gigs I was using my Eastwood Hooky 6-strong bass going direct into the PA via a Line6 Helix. Footwear was a pair of black and silver Converse-style boots bought years ago from TK Maxx 

 

Next gig is back at Rough Trade on 26th July as part of the Nottingham Pride festival.