How was your gig last night?

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

That sounds like a good day out. I'll see if i can get tickets Daryl 😂

Have a great gig sir.

This one will bring back the happiness after the last one. Honest. !!!

Dave

 

Thanks Dave,

 

We share a huge dressing room with the other performers. Should be fun.

 

Daryl

[Norris]

 

Back at the White Hart in Melton. I do like the sound there. It was very quiet when we started setting up, but livened up ok. Perhaps a little too lively from the young teachers celebrating the birthday of one of them - only two full glasses dropped and smashed. They moved on after our first break. 

 

We normally play here on a Sunday to a nice relaxed atmosphere, but it made an enjoyable change to be a bit more "in your face". 

 

I got a nice balance on the Big Muff with enough fuzz to be able to tell it was on too. GT-6B before it, Rumble after it. The Stingish bass (Sterling Sub5 with Retrovibe Stinger preamp) is a definite keeper - a load more compliments on my sound and it's so comfortable to play too.

 

What wasn't comfortable was accidentally stabbing the tip of my fretting index finger on the sharp pointer of a temperature gauge only 24 hours before the gig. It was a lot sharper than it had reason to be, went in at least a mm, and spilt a fair bit of blood. Paracetamol numbed it to start with, but adrenaline is the best painkiller.

[JPJ]

Back at the Old Fox, in Felling, a small town just south of Newcastle upon Tyne. This is one of those gigs you look forward to, a live music pub with an audience who appreciates your efforts. We’re all using IEMs now and that’s been an absolute game changer for us, and as one well respected local live music aficionado has just posted on FaceAche “Southern Incorporated were tighter than a nuns chuff”. 
Loads of folk we know out supporting us too, and a very happy landlady who stuck an extra £30 in the pay packet at the end of the night. Job done!

[bassbiscuits]

Wedding gig at the Mythe Barn near Atherstone on the Warwickshire/ Leicestershire border.
 

After a few weeks of modding and gigging with my Squier P + flatwounds, I grabbed two active Yamahas + round wounds for tonight’s gig. No doubt it was a wider, more complex and detailed bass sound, but I missed hearing the way that the burpy, woody P + flats sat in the overall mix at previous gigs. 
 

Was glad of the Yamahas for the few songs that needed slap bass etc though. 
 

Cool venue, lovely catering courtesy of a pizza oven in the beautifully illuminated courtyard just outside, plenty of people up dancing and a very decent gig all in. 

Rig was a single Markbass STD102HF cab, Little Mark lll head and my usual pedal board (Boss chorus and octave, a Korg tuner, Vintage Microtubes overdrive and a Cali76 compressor). 

[Thor]

Sarum’s Lot played at Qudos Bar in Salisbury last night, quiet-ish when we got there, but filled up to the gun holes as we set up, played okay, a few minor screw ups from all of us (which is unusual) but the crowd were very kind to us, partaking in lots of singing and dancing.😎

 

 We must have done alright because the land lady booked us for NYE 2026, so that’s a right result, Qudos is our favourite venue to play in Salisbury. 
 

Next up we are at The Bull Hotel in Downton on the 31st for a Halloween party, fancy dress is the order of the day, our guitarist is taking things very seriously:

 

 

[WalMan]

Not a bad night last night and local to me, though sadly a bit quiet with an Oasis tribute a couple of hundred yards one way and another band down the road the other. Landlady apologetic but happy as she said she still took plenty of money over the bar. “We love having you here, you’re so professional”
 

So we were playing to a small select bunch, but they were all enjoying themselves and singing along.

 

Band was tight and the sound really good. Loads of compliments from those that were there which was nice.
 

Used the usual rig of: FrankenJazz, Helix Effects, Darkglass Microtubes, BF BigBaby2. Shoes comfortable barefoot.

 

As there was potentially a bit more space than usual I took the bigger pedalboard but the Palmer wall wart that I had at rehearsal on Monday wasn’t in my leads bag so reverted to the Helix. 😡 Must have a search for that or order a spare.

[tauzero]

Very definitely a parson's egg of an evening.

 

Jack's Entertainment Centre in Bedworth - we've played there once before, in the front room. This time we were in the back room, using the house PA. We only used it for vocals and the sound man also set up an ambient mic for the drumkit. Nice big stage, pretty good sound, and a good audience. Managed to get quite a few of them up for Time Warp which is by no means a given.

 

Afterwards, one middle-aged man came up to three of us individually to tell us that when we played Dakota (opening number), his dad who had dementia told him he recognised it - it was one of his favourite songs and the pair of them had a great night. Always good to get some positive feedback.

 

Now the not so good bit. The car park also services some flats, and it turned out I'd parked in a bit for residents (I didn't realise). Some complete bastard parked blocking me (and two other cars belonging to residents) in. Mrs Zero and I had to get an Uber home and come back the next day, when the complete bastard had moved, to retrieve my car. No, I didn't key his car. That would have been too obvious. After all, we'll be going back there.

 

As usual, Sei Flamboyant 5 headless -> M-Vave wireless -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212 and Caravelle memory foam trainers, with socks.

 

[Greg Edwards69]

We had a very enjoyable night at the Cow & Telescope on Friday. Due to temporary management shenanigans we haven’t got a gig booked there next year, so we felt we had a point to prove to the new management team, who were very impressed with us. So fingers crossed well be a go to reserve next year if they get any cancellations.

 

I was still on holiday in Majorca with the wife in the morning with the wife and got home around 3pm. So had a couple of hours or so for a quick practice of several songs I hadn’t played for a while, and nap. The nap didn’t help much, I was knackered all evening and flagging towards the end, but adrenaline got me through.

 

We were joined by the lovely Hazel, dipping for Jenny again who wasn’t available. Hence the handful of songs I hadn’t played for ages (and one, we’d never even played as a band before), but it kept us on our toes and gave the set list a good shake up.

 

We had great comments from regulars and people who hadn’t seen us before, including a couple of people asking about merchandise. We have a fairly strong brand identity, so it’s something worth considering. I’ve been thinking about setting up an amazon print on demand store for a while.

 

Next one, Halloween at The Cricketers in Westcliff, with another dep singer.

 

Clip of ‘What’s up’ that we’d never played or even rehearsed before, let alone with a dep. Judging by the crowd reaction, it’s a keeper. IIRC, this is the only song I pulled and IEM out to hear the crowd signing along to.

 

https://fb.watch/CQZJVVKUbR/?

 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

Very definitely a parson's egg of an evening.

 

Jack's Entertainment Centre in Bedworth - we've played there once before, in the front room. This time we were in the back room, using the house PA. We only used it for vocals and the sound man also set up an ambient mic for the drumkit. Nice big stage, pretty good sound, and a good audience. Managed to get quite a few of them up for Time Warp which is by no means a given.

 

Afterwards, one middle-aged man came up to three of us individually to tell us that when we played Dakota (opening number), his dad who had dementia told him he recognised it - it was one of his favourite songs and the pair of them had a great night. Always good to get some positive feedback.

 

Now the not so good bit. The car park also services some flats, and it turned out I'd parked in a bit for residents (I didn't realise). Some complete bastard parked blocking me (and two other cars belonging to residents) in. Mrs Zero and I had to get an Uber home and come back the next day, when the complete bastard had moved, to retrieve my car. No, I didn't key his car. That would have been too obvious. After all, we'll be going back there.

 

As usual, Sei Flamboyant 5 headless -> M-Vave wireless -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212 and Caravelle memory foam trainers, with socks.

 

 

In my younger days a band's worth of guys would have bounced the car out of the way (two bounce the rear up and down and three push when the weight is off the back axle).

 

Not that I endorse such behaviour now!

[Lozz196]

Done that many a time back in my youth 

[Leonard Smalls]

We done a gig last Satday in Hereford...

I was a bit disappointed to see that we were headlining - simply because I was still dribbling from a cold, had been at work all day and had to go in for 0900 the following day as well. And we were due to go on at 2250, which meant after a hour's drive , home by 0100 and up at 0630...

After we'd soundchecked I found a lovely leather sofa next to the fire in the pub's main bar, so I sat there with a Guinness 0 and read my book, which was rather nice. I was then able to recover sufficiently to watch the other bands; Hurricane Tapes - sort of Joy Division-ish with decently played Ricky bass, A Noise, who we'd played with quite a few times before, who dress in bizarre costumes (glitterball on bass player's head - he played a fine 5 string Warwick - drummer in yellow cheese-string-tube-thing, singer in multiple teletubbie/rabbit/bear/wtf outfits). They're huge fun and play sort of rave-punk bangers - recommended! And finally, MC16 who we also know - great Clash-inspired agit-punk with reggae overtones. Always excellent value.

And it appeared that 10 minutes changeover between bands wasn't enough (I told him, I did!) - we finally came on at 2310. Luckily, despite not having rehearsed for a month we played well and even managed the tricky end-on-three of Knockout for possibly the first time ever! Folks jigged about, police weren't called, no punch-ups and no vomiting in my bass case, which was also rather nice.

Managed a near record 42 minutes to get home for 0100, quick Woodford Reserve and kip ready for work.

Kit was ACG bass into Helix (modified Aguilar tone with a touch of envelope filter and variable drive on the pedal), into BBE/Crown amps and DBX compression into Markbass 4x10. Boots were 12 hole Martin bike boots.

 

 

[cheddatom]

I've not been very active on here recently. We're opening a venue at Riff Factory in Stoke (adjoining my studio) so I've been putting all of my time and effort into that. Anyway, @lurksalot appeared at our gig last night and prompted me to check back in

 

Yesterday was an early afternoon gig. Doors at 2, support from 2:30-3:15, us on at 3:30-5. All very civilised. Not particularly well attended (we've filled the same place before), but we still sold loads of merch and had a great time. 

 

Last weekend was funnier. We went to Bristol to play to about 15 people in a pub that stank of damp and mould. The stage was sagging with holes patched up. I didn't really fit on the drum riser. I had to ditch two cymbals and pull everything uncomfortably close to me. We stayed at a Premier Inn, one without a restaurant attached. Our bassist was extremely grumpy about the lack of breakfast. We walked to the pub over the road in the morning, but they didn't do veggie sausages. There was a starbucks back near the hotel but the guitarist objected to starbucks as apparently they give free coffee to the IDF. We found a Sainsbury's with a cafe. On the drive there we passed another Premier Inn, this one with a restaurant attached. On arrival at Sainsbury's, it turned out their cafe was starbucks too 😂 So about face, pretty much back to where we started, where someone found a greasy spoon. The bassist was so hangry I thought he was going to cry and I was dying of laughter

 

Up to Guilford then for a weird punk festival in an old club in the middle of a housing estate. Great atmosphere! I was told I couldn't use my own drums as is often the case on these lineups. Seems a bit much when there were no acts after us, and the house kit was held together with gaffer tape, but I just suck it up and get on with it. Our frontman/boss had been promising a curry in Guilford, but the punk festival had a BBQ and vouchers for the bands, and he insisted it'd be rude not to. My turn to be hangry this time 😂 

 

We made up for it last night with a banging curry in Northwich

Edited 5 hours ago by cheddatom

[WalMan]

22 hours ago, WalMan said:

As there was potentially a bit more space than usual I took the bigger pedalboard but the Palmer wall wart that I had at rehearsal on Monday wasn’t in my leads bag so reverted to the Helix. 😡 Must have a search for that or order a spare.

Went through my leads bag to get out the Bass Revolt, power supply for that and lead to sit on the sofa and noodle on the Thunderpuncher 😳 while the F1 was on.

 

Guess what…there was the Palmer power supply 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Si600]

It wasn't last night, but Saturday and it was amazing once I got up on stage, but awful with the waiting around before hand, I was a right moody git.

 

It was my first time on a proper stage with people there to actually see us rather then a couple of numbers at an open mic.  We only have 11 songs so we were done in an hour I think, and the support band bigged us up something chronic.

 

There is undoubtably tons of video out there from all the phones but I haven't seen any of it yet.

 

Assuming Imgur isn't properly blocked or broken, here's the only picture I currently have.

 

https://imgur.com/a/gP9hj9R#Wy1GuHn

 

 

 

EDIT:  Shoes were black Vans Bandana print

Edited 2 hours ago by Si600

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

In my younger days a band's worth of guys would have bounced the car out of the way (two bounce the rear up and down and three push when the weight is off the back axle).

 

Not that I endorse such behaviour now!

 

This was some bloated Vauxhall Grandland, I doubt a club full of guys could have bounced the bloody thing.

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Si600 said:

It wasn't last night, but Saturday and it was amazing once I got up on stage, but awful with the waiting around before hand, I was a right moody git.

 

It was my first time on a proper stage with people there to actually see us rather then a couple of numbers at an open mic.  We only have 11 songs so we were done in an hour I think, and the support band bigged us up something chronic.

 

There is undoubtably tons of video out there from all the phones but I haven't seen any of it yet.

 

Assuming Imgur isn't properly blocked or broken, here's the only picture I currently have.

 

https://imgur.com/a/gP9hj9R#Wy1GuHn

 

Can't get the link to open @Si600

Dave

[Si600]

2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Can't get the link to open @Si600

Dave

 

Yeah, that's a problem I'm having.  Imgur is only linking rather than embedding.  Some folks see it, others just get a link which is 50/50 as to whether it functions.  I should look at alternative hosting sites really, and maybe, shock horror, pay for a service.

 

 

I've nicked @Dad3353's link for it from his BC upload allocation.

[BigRedX]

3 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Can't get the link to open @Si600

Dave

 

Imgur is blocked to any UK IP address due to various reasons mostly do to with unwillingness to comply with UK data protection legislation.

 

If you really need to see any images hosted with Imgur you'll need a VPN set to a non-UK location.