How was your gig last night?

[Dad3353]

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Two of them run on about 0.2A, so you could use a usb powerbank.

 

Cheers; I followed up a link above, and will receive a bundle of four next week, rechargeable with built-in lipo's. I'll see what they're like when I get them. 

[super al]

Last gig this year! 🙁

Booked back in May for a mate's 50th so a gig with a guaranteed crowd, two sets of mostly originals. Our few covers are from Tom Petty, Whitesnake, AC/DC (of course 😄), JJ Cale, Rory McLeod and T Rex.

Chris, our guitarist, found the backdrop from the band's pre @super al era so I pinned it up on the pub window curtain rail 👍🏻 Could probably do with an iron.

 

Great crowd, mostly people I've known for 20-30 years so there was definitely a good vibe. Great comments after, love the word to describe our sound from one mate - seventiesness 😂 (he was drunk).

 

Airwalk trainers on my feet, they are wearing thin on the sole so may have to retire them and just go with the various colours of converse I have in the future.

Have been using the ibanez 1205 lately but as this was an end of term gig I went with my PPI bass, the Lakland 55-02 (the swiss army knife of basses 😄).

 

It's a shame there's no more gigs in the diary but we haven't recorded any new songs in almost a year so we'll use this time productively...I hope 🙂

 

[Bluewine]

On 11/10/2025 at 20:30, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Great gig last night. A long long day and all for charity.

7 tribute artists across three back line bands. The event was sold out a couple of hours before doors.

Line up was Bon Jovi (Jon Bovi), Alanis Morissette, Elton John, ABBA, Elvis, David Bowie (ChangesTwoBowie) & Queen (Queenage) - plus encores from 4 of them. I played Bowie and Queen plus the encore set.

It's nice to get paid, but to have an audience go this nuts for the songs they love, I'd do it again tomorrow.

A truly remarkable ensemble who I'm honoured to have as friends.

Not sure what the final total is yet, but I'm expecting it to be lots of thousands.

 

Really nice photos. 

 

Daryl

[Leonard Smalls]

Bit of vid here from Saturday in Chester featuring the only song written entirely by MeMyselfAndI! I've reduced video quality a bit to save on size...

 

 

 

[Piers_Williamson]

15 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Bit of vid here from Saturday in Chester featuring the only song written entirely by MeMyselfAndI! I've reduced video quality a bit to save on size...

 

 

 

We liked that!  Like Talking Heads, John Cooper Clark, the Byrds and King Crimson all rolled into each other!

[Leonard Smalls]

2 minutes ago, Piers_Williamson said:

We liked that! 

Cheers! Note how the two guitarmen are beautifully hidden...

[Inga]

horrendous

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Bit of vid here from Saturday in Chester featuring the only song written entirely by MeMyselfAndI! I've reduced video quality a bit to save on size...

 

 

 

That is superb. Love it.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Cheers! Note how the two guitarmen are beautifully hidden...

All about the bass 😂

[cetera]

3 hours ago, Inga said:

horrendous

You ok hun?

[Norris]

After our gig on Friday we were inundated with media forwarded on to us: 66 photos and 14 videos. The same people were there at our gig on Sunday and... nothing! (So far). So you'll have to put up with the single photo I took, this time from behind the drum kit for a change...

 

Our second visit to the Donkey (now the Donkey Venue) since the change of management. The old regulars are still boycotting the place, but we still managed to fill it. It doesn't quite have the same vibe though - it's lost the "specialness" we used to feel. It was hot again, and great fun though. However I seemed to use up my annual allocation of cockups in the first spot, starting off in the wrong key on the very first note and continuing downhill from there. Ah well, I got them all out of the way in the first 6 songs so can look forward to playing the rest of the year flawlessly 😂

 

Usual kit: Stingish bass, GT-6B, Big Muff again (but didn't actually engage it!) into Rumble. Shiny black DMs. Compliments this time included my lights: a pair of Thomann Stairville CLB4 RGBW(?) 4-way bars with a couple of mini kintas bolted on top.

 

Now, it's a simple formula: band plays, beer gets sold, band gets paid. I'm not quite sure if the new management have quite got the hang of it yet though. We could have done without hanging around after we finished loading, for 20 minutes waiting for them to stuff some notes into an envelope. 🙄