How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Dave, Agreed and two gig weekends are tough at my age.

 

Daryl

Ach you'll be fine. Get the youngsters to do all the hard work. 😂

I do most of the heavy lifts in the Glam band.

Dave

[Dad3353]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

... two gig weekends are tough at my age ...

 

You'd be less tired if you used your Hofner bass a bit more. 

 

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[super al]

Bit of a late report but I can do that can't I?

We played (Felis Leo) a gig in Southampton on Sunday afternoon. The band's first gig there and my first there in 11 years! I miss playing Southampton, I have fond memories of many, many venues there 😍😄

 

Ages ago a mate said try Music In The City, a weekend festival in various strange venues around Southampton. We got booked as the last act on in a place called St Michael's Vault. Turns out it's like an old wine cellar/jail/bomb shelter type place in the car park behind the Titanic pub! 

 

We got there early enough to watch a couple of the bands before us, turns out this festival is quite popular and well organised so we had a chilled time enjoying the bands. The sound in the place was terrible though and the volunteers were supplying free earplugs to punters 😂

 

When we got on stage we didn't have the crowd the other bands did but there was a few so we were happy. Those that weren't fam n friends actually were there for the duration, unbelievable with the noise we were making!

 

Hopefully we'll get more gigs down that way, I've always enjoyed gigging in Southampton more than Salisbury (sorry Salisbury, you need to embrace your inner rocker self more 🤔).

I wore me converse and the sound guy liked my ibanez sdgr 1205 bass.

 

[wateroftyne]

An almighty trip to the other end of the country for an Eagles tribute show in Newbury. Beautiful venue, and an appreciative crowd. Nice to bump into BC’s very own @alant!

 

[Paul S]

38 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

An almighty trip to the other end of the country 

 

 

Actually there is still quite a bit left beyond Newbury.  Typical northerner 😄

[wateroftyne]

46 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

Actually there is still quite a bit left beyond Newbury.  Typical northerner 😄

I’m going to invoke the law of diminishing returns 🤣

Edited 12 hours ago by wateroftyne

[alant]

3 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

An almighty trip to the other end of the country for an Eagles tribute show in Newbury. Beautiful venue, and an appreciative crowd. Nice to bump into BC’s very own @alant!

 

Great night and good to meet you Michael.

[bottomfeed]

On 08/06/2025 at 14:32, colleya said:

Yep, turns out the account is private. Balls.

Doh!... Been a while... Soz! ☺️🥳..if there is any interest still, here is the YouTube link.....

A little more Gilmour

 

It's been fun, proper gigs start in October...

 

 

 

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[Stub Mandrel]

Well...

 

First, the chaos of setting up three bands well (solo singer plus band) using the same mixer with two guitars using the desk, a drum machine and an electronic kit.

 

Somehow it worked, but the second band's guitarists did the "crank after soundcheck" thing which scared off a few punters and did their sound no favours. Their bass player (also the organiser) used my kit.

 

Our set was as interesting as promised, despite Fritz doing his back in which made it a little tamer. In my labcoat I wheeled in the patient (we skipped the straitjacket). He shambled to the mic as Nigel the specialist delivered the narration.  I handed Fritz an acoustic guitar so he could start his 'creative therapy'. He played the Fractured Persona song with us backing quietly. The first four songs I went fretless Maya P. As it cranked up the fourth song was pretty punky so over to fretted P and plectrum. 

 

Then back to fingers except for Kill the Klown, which featured a  sledgehammer clown attack on our singer who reponded by chainsawing the clowns head off. The prop chainsaw was wirelessly miked up too  

 

We ended up doing our encore, largely without our rhythm guitarist who truned the volume down on his guitar and forgot. 

 

We knew some of the songs were memorable and it was surprising to see people joining in some of the choruses, so comfortable we weren't just a novelty show. Lots of decent feedback despite obvious first gig hiccups. Memorable for us and the audience. 

 

 

 

 

[knirirr]

Today's gig was at the street fair in Charlbury, doing the usual jazz-ish originals. A strange gig as our sets were between those of singers/acoustic guitarists doing covers in the beer garden of the pub on the other side of the street. We could hear but not see them, so we had to be ready to go at the appointed time as soon as applause was heard, just in case they slipped another song in. They were similarly ready when we were playing. 

A video of some of our performance is available, though the intro was missed as the person filming was trying to move out of the rain.

As the video shows, some kitchen sink/shelf units were out in the yard where we were performing - apparently the venue was undergoing some refurbishment. These turned out to be a convenient place to stash my bass bag and amp cover when not playing. 

Edited 3 hours ago by knirirr

[itu]

Wedding party. We played pretty old songs in the beginning while the audience was relatively young. I messed many details from simple songs because I couldn't hear a thing I was playing. But: second set was much better and the third one was really good. Mercy (that 3rd degree version) was an instant floor filler, and Disco Inferno was super. 

 

Humidity was probably +90, sweat sweat sweat. Maybe we sounded like Wet wet wet. 

 

One thing was unusual: the party was in time! This was third time ever.