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. 

 

...

 

 

[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 yesterday at 11:15 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...

 

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by bottomfeed
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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 17 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. 

 

 

[tubbybloke68]

Just back and having the usual tea and toast from our first ever gig at the famous wedgewood rooms in Pompey with the Phil Collins tribute. Geoff, the guy who is the main man there is such a gent! Super nice guy who has a fantastic team of people working for him. The sound lads were very friendly and professional and done a fab job for us. On stage sound was perfect and everyone said how good it was out front aswell. (11 piece outfit so not the easiest to sort out!) Got about 275 in there tonight which wasn’t bad for a first pop. Very appreciative audience and they said we are welcome to another gig there nxt year 😊. Used my GB spitfire 5 again, through my usual puma 900/ LFsys Monza rig, PA support obviously. All together a really fun experience.x

[Ed_S]

We played the 7pm slot in a new all-day power metal festival at a large social club yesterday. 6th band out of 9 on the bill, but I got there for the first band at 2 and didn't leave until midnight so it was a long enough day to be feeling it this morning. It had the usual metal-crowd friendly atmosphere, though, and the other bands were all really good with enough in common but not so much to be samey, so it was nice to make a day of it. Being a social club in Sheffield, the Stones bitter was fresh and not too expensive. Of course it had to be absolutely bucketing it down so everything got a water-tightness test on the way in, but cabs were provided so that made things easier. Said cabs were a pair of Vanderkley 1x12s that I was told were good for a thousand watts so am assuming were MNT112s.

 

I thought we did alright, but I personally made a bit of a balls-up to begin with. I have two Warwick RB Streamers that I use for gigging - the black one was b-stock with a dead preamp so is gutted and rewired passive, while the white one is factory-spec with its preamp intact. Correct settings for the black passive is everything on 10, whilst for white active it's Bal/B/T in the middle detents and just the volume up to 10. I've been playing the passive recently, so of course picked up the active and without thinking set the balance fully forward (not a massive problem) and bass / treble boosted to max. Was a very brief line-check so it didn't really hit me how wrong it sounded until we started. Half way through the first song I twigged and had to give the sound guy a minor episode by correcting the EQ and messing up his mix, but despite that, everyone I spoke to afterwards said we sounded good. One guy commented that the vocals became much clearer from the second song... mhmm..!

 

Streamer LX 5 (active..) -> Telepath wireless -> Fly Rig v2 -> Markbass Nano 2 -> 2x Vanderkley MNT112 (?)

[bassintheface]

Private wedding in Llangollen town hall. Big boomy space, but we had a big pa.

 

all fine from that pov….

but….my amp / cab died after just as we were about to start the first set.

 

i was using my Peavey mini max 500 into my BF retro 2x10.

 

the power light on the amp briefly went from blue to red, then i smelt something burning…: I was literally running both gain and master vol at a little over 1/4 with all EQ flat, so nothing loud at all.

also using  keeley compressor and boss oc 2, but that wasn’t being used at that point so I can’t see that I’ve overdriven the preamp or anything….

 

the amp still powers up etc but no sound. A bit confused really….

 

2 gigs next week so may be looking to buy an amp or cab, depending on what I find later….

 

i just turned it all off and as i was in the pa via my sans amp, i just used a powered wedge for on stage monitoring to get though the gig….

 

ive brought it all home so im shortly going to try some fault finding….

I have a TE head and cab here also so can try peavey into TE cab and TE amp into BF cab to try and workout what’s broken. 

 

Hassle I don’t need.

[StingRayBoy42]

On 20/09/2025 at 10:48, 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!

 

You've missed a trick not calling yourselves 'The ileagles'

[martthebass]

A fairly long trip to Bridlington in god awful storm weather last night for Glam Viva. A great venue, the Black Lion in the old town, first visit for us. A great venue with a small theatre type arrangement. Unfortunately the weather had put off a fair few punters so it was only about half full, fortunately those that braved the onslaught were up for it and danced the night away.  Only negative of the night was the outside door that let water through due the the storm and wet my clothes through in the changing room so had to drive home in 70s glam wear……

 

Footwear….red silver and blue sequinned converse.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by martthebass

[Mickeyboro]

Our twice yearly date at the Ringwood Meeting House. They’ve been hugely supportive of the Otis Jay Blues Band for the last three years and we have rewarded them with four different line-ups in the past four visits!

 

Cecilia our new singer went down a storm with 53 paying customers - a reasonable haul and very appreciative. 

Rig: Sandberg VM4, GK MB200, BF One10, waterproof shoes. 

 

[Franticsmurf]

We played at a 40th birthday party last night, held in the hall in which we rehearse, so very much a home fixture. The audience was a mix ranging in age from 5 to 65. Food and drink provided, which is always good. We had been asked to provide a 'rocky' set and I decided to give my recently acquired 5 string Ibanez GSH205 an outing. I've rehearsed with it a few times and it was my back up at the Hulla festival back in June, but this was the first time it took centre stage. I don't play 5 strings regularly enough to be able to swap between 4 and 5 easily but I'd been practicing with it and was reasonably comfortable in using it. 

 

It was an 8pm kick off and we had a great sound thanks to our regular sound engineer and, of course, it being a familiar venue. I had a few senior/jazz moments, mainly as a result of the extra string throwing me and I felt the band performance as a whole wasn't as good as it has been recently. There seemed to be a lack of energy in some of the faster songs, with our encore of Dakota being particularly bland. But we went down well with the audience, with our younger fans particularly enjoying Taylor Swift's Love Story - they all gathered around our singer and stared adoringly at him as he sang it. 😀 

 

My kit was the aforementioned Ibanez GSH205 into the pedal board - a Sine HPF, MS60b (for noise gate and tuner only), NUX Sculpture compressor, EHX Bass Clone, NUX Voodoo Vibe and into the desk via my Ampeg SCRDI. This board hasn't changed for a couple of months now (unusual for me) and I find it works equally well into an amp and speakers (last week) or DI (this week). I was monitoring from the desk via a Behringer P16m and wireless IEMs. This gives me my own mix and some protection from excessive noise levels. 

 

Footwear was the same as last week - unbranded black boots. 

 

Kit:

 

Love Story:

 

 

[neepheid]

Last night, played The Railway Club in Keith with Nine Lives.  Drove through a one minute monsoon on the way there - rain so hard had to slow down because even with the wipers on full speed I couldn't see very well.  Then it was done.  What a bizarre, angry, and incredibly small pocket of weather!

 

So we get there and get set up - it's an odd place - L shaped, so we are in the bit round the corner from the bar.  It has alcohol, we don't.  So, as you can imagine, we had only a trickle of folk getting off their backsides and coming round to see us, and a bunch of folk who were quite content to sit round the corner and merely listen.  Are people not curious any more?

 

Anyhoo, I frankly don't know how busy it was.  We had some people come round for a dance and a singalong, so at least there's that.  Got some nice comments afterwards, compliments on our playing and the sound (which surprises me because the first half was a nightmare - just couldn't get the singer loud enough.  At half time we swapped out her wireless gear for a good old wired SM58 and things improved greatly - we'll need to investigate that.  We played pretty well for all that, and the Neep One got its first live outing and didn't explode/collapse in half/go silent so yay for my dubious luthiery skills?

 

Gear was G&L L-1000 then the Neep One into the cubes of doom.

 

[neepheid]

2 minutes ago, Franticsmurf said:

There seemed to be a lack of energy in some of the faster songs, with our encore of Dakota being particularly bland.

 

Highlighted the problem for you there

[martthebass]

23 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Last night, played The Railway Club in Keith with Nine Lives.  Drove through a one minute monsoon on the way there - rain so hard had to slow down because even with the wipers on full speed I couldn't see very well.  Then it was done.  What a bizarre, angry, and incredibly small pocket of weather!

 

So we get there and get set up - it's an odd place - L shaped, so we are in the bit round the corner from the bar.  It has alcohol, we don't.  So, as you can imagine, we had only a trickle of folk getting off their backsides and coming round to see us, and a bunch of folk who were quite content to sit round the corner and merely listen.  Are people not curious any more?

 

Anyhoo, I frankly don't know how busy it was.  We had some people come round for a dance and a singalong, so at least there's that.  Got some nice comments afterwards, compliments on our playing and the sound (which surprises me because the first half was a nightmare - just couldn't get the singer loud enough.  At half time we swapped out her wireless gear for a good old wired SM58 and things improved greatly - we'll need to investigate that.  We played pretty well for all that, and the Neep One got its first live outing and didn't explode/collapse in half/go silent so yay for my dubious luthiery skills?

 

Gear was G&L L-1000 then the Neep One into the cubes of doom.

 

love ‘the cubes of doom’ I’ll have to remember that 🤣

Had a guy come up to me mid song at last nights gig telling me my cubes of doom were popping - possible blown unit….said ‘nah, wax in the ears mate’.

[bassintheface]

1 hour ago, bassintheface said:

Private wedding in Llangollen town hall. Big boomy space, but we had a big pa.

 

all fine from that pov….

but….my amp / cab died after just as we were about to start the first set.

 

i was using my Peavey mini max 500 into my BF retro 2x10.

 

the power light on the amp briefly went from blue to red, then i smelt something burning…: I was literally running both gain and master vol at a little over 1/4 with all EQ flat, so nothing loud at all.

also using  keeley compressor and boss oc 2, but that wasn’t being used at that point so I can’t see that I’ve overdriven the preamp or anything….

 

the amp still powers up etc but no sound. A bit confused really….

 

2 gigs next week so may be looking to buy an amp or cab, depending on what I find later….

 

i just turned it all off and as i was in the pa via my sans amp, i just used a powered wedge for on stage monitoring to get though the gig….

 

ive brought it all home so im shortly going to try some fault finding….

I have a TE head and cab here also so can try peavey into TE cab and TE amp into BF cab to try and workout what’s broken. 

 

Hassle I don’t need.

 

update:

 

can’t get a sound out of peavey into BF.

 

i know bass and lead is fine as (a) used last night, (b) ran them through my little Marshall guitar combo at home and all good.

 

so…..

peavey lights up….plugged into the cab of my trace combo….still no sound and can smell burning..:

 

all off. Probably going to kick the peavey head off a bridge.:::

 

tried going from trace head into Bf (both 4 ohms) and frustratingly, no sound.

is it poss that whatever has happened to the peavey has also damaged the BF?!

 

 

[bassintheface]

4 minutes ago, bassintheface said:

 

update:

 

can’t get a sound out of peavey into BF.

 

i know bass and lead is fine as (a) used last night, (b) ran them through my little Marshall guitar combo at home and all good.

 

so…..

peavey lights up….plugged into the cab of my trace combo….still no sound and can smell burning..:

 

all off. Probably going to kick the peavey head off a bridge.:::

 

tried going from trace head into Bf (both 4 ohms) and frustratingly, no sound.

is it poss that whatever has happened to the peavey has also damaged the BF?!

 

 

And now I think the trace (unused for 2 years) is also in need of repair.

FML x 2

 

need rig needed me thinks….::

[Obrienp]

49 minutes ago, bassintheface said:

 

tried going from trace head into Bf (both 4 ohms) and frustratingly, no sound.

is it poss that whatever has happened to the peavey has also damaged the BF?!

 

 

I would refer that one to @agedhorse. Perhaps worth starting a thread in Technical and Repairs.