How was your gig last night?

[Stub Mandrel]

Spoke to my brother earlier. His band closed out the local free festival, Cadstock... daily attendance is about 4,000.

 

 

[casapete]

I did two gigs this weekend, and they couldn’t have been much more different.

 

Saturday night I was playing at Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival with blues trio The Alligators.

It was actually my final gig with them, as I’ve started a local weekly residency at a rock n roll club

and it was getting a bit much - I’m supposed to be semi retired for gawds sake!

Anyway the gig was okay - some great bands on before us including sax player Tom Waters (son

of pianist Ben Waters). A friend of mine was on directly before us doing some of his original stuff,

and then I joined him for a few covers to get the crowd dancing. 

 

Then our band got started at 11pm, to play for around an hour. Onstage sound was really loud,

so was glad I’d taken my old Barefaced Compact to use in addition to my Fender Rumble 500.

Played my sunburst P Lyte and it sounded good, just about keeping up with the guitar.

As is customary, we were joined by a couple of sax players towards the end, and it was in danger

of getting out of control. Managed to steer it to a conclusion, and I was quite relieved it was all over.

A really steamy gig, drove 50 miles home with the sunroof open. 
 

Sunday evening I was back in the familiar ‘Lookout on the Pier’ in Scarborough with our acoustic

duo. Really busy along the beach, blisteringly hot weather so parking wasn’t easy due to the 

crowds but we got set up and ready to play by 6pm. Loads of requests, with some good ones

including ‘Out of reach’, ‘Tears in heaven’ ‘Human’ (Rag and Boneman!) and ‘Iris’. 
Fender Kingman bass into Rumble 100 combo - nice and quiet after the previous night’s gig.

Couple of days off now - next gig Wednesday so will give my fingers a rest. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, casapete said:

I did two gigs this weekend, and they couldn’t have been much more different.

 

Saturday night I was playing at Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival with blues trio The Alligators.

It was actually my final gig with them, as I’ve started a local weekly residency at a rock n roll club

and it was getting a bit much - I’m supposed to be semi retired for gawds sake!

Anyway the gig was okay - some great bands on before us including sax player Tom Waters (son

of pianist Ben Waters). A friend of mine was on directly before us doing some of his original stuff,

and then I joined him for a few covers to get the crowd dancing. 

 

Then our band got started at 11pm, to play for around an hour. Onstage sound was really loud,

so was glad I’d taken my old Barefaced Compact to use in addition to my Fender Rumble 500.

Played my sunburst P Lyte and it sounded good, just about keeping up with the guitar.

As is customary, we were joined by a couple of sax players towards the end, and it was in danger

of getting out of control. Managed to steer it to a conclusion, and I was quite relieved it was all over.

A really steamy gig, drove 50 miles home with the sunroof open. 
 

Sunday evening I was back in the familiar ‘Lookout on the Pier’ in Scarborough with our acoustic

duo. Really busy along the beach, blisteringly hot weather so parking wasn’t easy due to the 

crowds but we got set up and ready to play by 6pm. Loads of requests, with some good ones

including ‘Out of reach’, ‘Tears in heaven’ ‘Human’ (Rag and Boneman!) and ‘Iris’. 
Fender Kingman bass into Rumble 100 combo - nice and quiet after the previous night’s gig.

Couple of days off now - next gig Wednesday so will give my fingers a rest. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice pics!

 

Daryl