How was your gig last night?

[dclaassen]

 Pub gig in Peterborough. Kind of the classic small pub gig…no parking close by….check, stuck at the end of an already small room….check, next the the ladies loo so you have to move out of the way…check, PA speaker on top of bass cabs…check, footie on even after we start…check,loud, social but uninterested crowd…check. Added plus to sit on the floor because no chairs are available during break….

played well though, and very pleasantly surprised with my sound through the elf.

[bassbloke]

Matinee gig at the Fiddlers Elbow in Camden - 1pm - 5pm.

 

Confirmed my belief that there's a reason gigs usually start after 6pm.  Also, was recovering from a bout of covid, so spent most of the afternoon wearing a mask and keeping my distance from everyone.  Also, spent our set having to concentrate extra hard to remember my parts  courtesy of covid brain.

 

I brought my GK Fusion S 800 and my recently purchased GK 4ohm 4 x 10,which sounded immense.  Other bands were lovely and we made a few fans.

 

Overall, probably one to forget though.

 

 

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I doubt that there's much, if any, difference for FOH over a couple (or even just one...) overhead. Still, what do I know..? 

you know more than i do so please keep the advice coming.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, peteb said:

 

Triggers? How very 90s! It's a long time since I've seen anyone use a set of triggers on an acoustic drum kit, although I'm sure that it must still happen on some bigger productions. 

 

Yes you can get good result with mics on bass and snare and a couple of overheads (especially in smaller venues), but the norm these days is still very much individual mics on each drum. 

 

I'll need to have a closer look at what he's using cause now i'm not sure if its triggers or small mics of some kind. He doesn't have any control boxes if its triggers but i don't know how they work.

When we use a PA hire they always use mics to every drum.

Dave

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, dclaassen said:

 Pub gig in Peterborough. Kind of the classic small pub gig…no parking close by….check, stuck at the end of an already small room….check, next the the ladies loo so you have to move out of the way…check, PA speaker on top of bass cabs…check, footie on even after we start…check,loud, social but uninterested crowd…check. Added plus to sit on the floor because no chairs are available during break….

played well though, and very pleasantly surprised with my sound through the elf.

 

 

 

 

It sounds like you had fun.

 

Daryl

Edited 18 hours ago by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

29 minutes ago, bassbloke said:

Matinee gig at the Fiddlers Elbow in Camden - 1pm - 5pm.

 

Confirmed my belief that there's a reason gigs usually start after 6pm.  Also, was recovering from a bout of covid, so spent most of the afternoon wearing a mask and keeping my distance from everyone.  Also, spent our set having to concentrate extra hard to remember my parts  courtesy of covid brain.

 

I brought my GK Fusion S 800 and my recently purchased GK 4ohm 4 x 10,which sounded immense.  Other bands were lovely and we made a few fans.

 

Overall, probably one to forget though.

 

 

 

Man, do I get it. 

 

We had that 12 noon start gig at the Harley Moter Restaurant a few weeks ago. We played outside to an embarrassing small crowd. I'm over it now.

 

Daryl

 

 

[Bluewine]

On 25/10/2025 at 04:52, dmccombe7 said:

Come on Daryl. Its sad when your highlight from a gig is the food but i get and appreciate where you're coming from. 😂

Dave

 

Probably not much of a highlight Dave.  But remember as a single guy and not much of a cook, it was a big score for me. Lol

 

Being a smallish  intimate party, we didn't bring much production. I will say for a small intimate party our manager did a nice job with the lighting. 

 

Daryl

[Marvin]

We did a ticketed charity gig last night at a local music venue. 

 

It was our gig, our singer organised it all (the venue also helped masses). As we're still a newish band, this was our 6th gig, it was a bit squeaky butt timeas to how many would turn up. In the end we were absolutely chuffed to get a decent number there. And a great crowd they were as well. It was a really cracking night and we raised several hundred £s in the end.

 

We had support from a former band mate of mine, who did a great solo set and went down a storm.

 

We're all still buzzing I think.

[Merton]

Loud. A bit too loud tbh.

Katy Hurt was booked to play the Country Roads festival in Southampton; a bit odd for a festival at the end of October but thankfully we were under a massive marquee just outside the Southampton Guildhall so the cold and wet weather didn’t dampen the mood too much. Organisation was pretty … lacking. In the 48 hours preceding the event we had 3 different arrival times/stage times/set lengths, and when we arrived for our soundcheck at 3.30 were told in no uncertain terms that soundchecks were not on the cards at all because no-one had told or prepped the crew for anything 😕

 

The “green room” was a tiny tent outside the main marquee, hemmed in by a giant concrete bench, and the “backstage area” also doubled as the fire escape, except the marquee flaps were tied together and they led to metal fencing which was all bolted together. This “backstage” area became a nightmare as we finished and the next band were prepping; it was carnage trying to get off stage with our gear as they were setting up theirs in this tiny space and also trying to get onstage whilst our guitarist was still packing down (always a bugbear - f**king WAIT for us to be completely clear). Plus the floor was soaking wet so we didn’t really want to put our gear directly on it.

 

Anyway, organisational issues aside, we managed a loud, raucous 45 minute set (which we’d been told by the organisers as we arrived was 60 minutes…) and, on the whole, had fun. Katy’s acoustic kept feeding back and the onstage volume was blisteringly loud but overall actually I had a good balance of all the instruments. We sang, rocked out and enjoyed ourselves, then ate our token free hot dog and left 😃

 

Photo to show the daft “VIP” area directly in front of the band which meant all the crowd behind the barriers were miles from us and a bit annoyed they couldn’t be closer…

 

Edited 58 minutes ago by Merton
Clarity

[Merton]

PS - the bassist for the Shania Twain UK tribute act which played after us had a 5 string Wal, sounded ace. If he be on here, say hello! Would be interested in your thoughts on the organisational side of things 😆

[AlexDelores]

31 minutes ago, Merton said:

Loud. A bit too loud tbh.

Katy Hurt was booked to play the Country Roads festival in Southampton; a bit odd for a festival in the end of a October but thankfully we were under a massive marquee just outside the Southampton Guildhall so the cold and wet weather didn’t dampen the mood too much. Organisation was pretty … lacking. In the 48 hours preceding the event we had 3 different arrival times/stage times/set lengths, and when we arrived for our soundcheck at 3.30 were told in no uncertain terms that soundchecks were not on the cards at all because no-one had told or prepped the crew for anything 😕

 

The “green room” was a tiny tent outside the main marquee, hemmed in by a giant concrete bench, and the “backstage area” also doubled as the fire escape, except the marquee flaps were tied together and they led to metal fencing which was all bolted together. This “backstage” area became a nightmare as we finished and the next band were prepping; trying to get off stage with our gear as they were setting up theirs in this tiny space and also trying to get onstage whilst our guitarist was still packing down (always a bugbear - f**king WAIT for us to be completely clear) was carnage. Plus the floor was soaking wet so we didn’t really want to put our gear directly on it.

 

Anyway, organisational issues aside, we managed a loud, raucous 45 minute set (which we’d been told by the organisers as we arrived was 60 minutes…) and, on the whole, had fun. Katy’s acoustic kept feeding back and the onstage volume was blisteringly loud but overall actually I had a good balance of all the instruments. We sang, rocked out and enjoyed ourselves, then ate our token free hot dog and left 😃

 

Photo to show the daft “VIP” area directly in front of the band which meant all the crowd behind the barriers were miles from us and a bit annoyed they couldn’t be closer…

 

I saw the video of this on your IG and wondered what was going on with the seated bit in front of the main crowd.
 

I’d of felt so awkward if I was sitting in that bit with a big crowd of people watching over my head! 

Sounded good though 👌
 

 

[Merton]

1 hour ago, AlexDelores said:

I saw the video of this on your IG and wondered what was going on with the seated bit in front of the main crowd.
 

I’d of felt so awkward if I was sitting in that bit with a big crowd of people watching over my head! 

Sounded good though 👌
 

 

It was a bit odd! I think the idea was to get people line dancing in the space but that only really happened when the dancing girls were on before us!

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, Merton said:

Loud. A bit too loud tbh.

Katy Hurt was booked to play the Country Roads festival in Southampton; a bit odd for a festival in the end of a October but thankfully we were under a massive marquee just outside the Southampton Guildhall so the cold and wet weather didn’t dampen the mood too much. Organisation was pretty … lacking. In the 48 hours preceding the event we had 3 different arrival times/stage times/set lengths, and when we arrived for our soundcheck at 3.30 were told in no uncertain terms that soundchecks were not on the cards at all because no-one had told or prepped the crew for anything 😕

 

The “green room” was a tiny tent outside the main marquee, hemmed in by a giant concrete bench, and the “backstage area” also doubled as the fire escape, except the marquee flaps were tied together and they led to metal fencing which was all bolted together. This “backstage” area became a nightmare as we finished and the next band were prepping; trying to get off stage with our gear as they were setting up theirs in this tiny space and also trying to get onstage whilst our guitarist was still packing down (always a bugbear - f**king WAIT for us to be completely clear) was carnage. Plus the floor was soaking wet so we didn’t really want to put our gear directly on it.

 

Anyway, organisational issues aside, we managed a loud, raucous 45 minute set (which we’d been told by the organisers as we arrived was 60 minutes…) and, on the whole, had fun. Katy’s acoustic kept feeding back and the onstage volume was blisteringly loud but overall actually I had a good balance of all the instruments. We sang, rocked out and enjoyed ourselves, then ate our token free hot dog and left 😃

 

Photo to show the daft “VIP” area directly in front of the band which meant all the crowd behind the barriers were miles from us and a bit annoyed they couldn’t be closer…

 

 

Just a look at that photo tells you they couldn't organise a p*** up in a brewery! 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, AlexDelores said:

I saw the video of this on your IG and wondered what was going on with the seated bit in front of the main crowd.
 

I’d of felt so awkward if I was sitting in that bit with a big crowd of people watching over my head! 

Sounded good though 👌
 

 

 

And that huge empty section... move the vips to one side and bring the audience within 6 feet of the stage and you could drop the volume by 10dB too.

[neepheid]

Bit of a late report, but I was like a burst ba' yesterday.  Saturday night, played at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh with Nine Lives.  We'd had a few weeks off and I was struggling to get myself in the mood, ngl.  Just felt "off" - didn't help that we got set up in good time so there was about half an hour of hanging about, punctuated by people coming up to us and generally getting in the way, which was its usual irritating influence and I think I let it get to me more than usual.  Thankfully, once we got going, the cobwebs were shaken off and I got right back into the actual business of performing and hopefully entertaining.

 

Played pretty well, a few wee bloops but nothing worth anything more than pulling a funny face and having a laugh with the drummer about.  Also threw a new song into the set for the first time (Foo Fighters - "The Pretender") and it went really well, both from a playing perspective and audience reaction, so looks like it's a successful addition.

 

Gear was the Burny LSB-80 followed by the Reverend Triad into the cubes of doom.  Actually, I was really pleased with my sound, especially with the Triad - just used series combinations all night and it fair punched a hole in the air!

 

[dmccombe7]

5 hours ago, Merton said:

Loud. A bit too loud tbh.

Katy Hurt was booked to play the Country Roads festival in Southampton; a bit odd for a festival in the end of a October but thankfully we were under a massive marquee just outside the Southampton Guildhall so the cold and wet weather didn’t dampen the mood too much. Organisation was pretty … lacking. In the 48 hours preceding the event we had 3 different arrival times/stage times/set lengths, and when we arrived for our soundcheck at 3.30 were told in no uncertain terms that soundchecks were not on the cards at all because no-one had told or prepped the crew for anything 😕

 

The “green room” was a tiny tent outside the main marquee, hemmed in by a giant concrete bench, and the “backstage area” also doubled as the fire escape, except the marquee flaps were tied together and they led to metal fencing which was all bolted together. This “backstage” area became a nightmare as we finished and the next band were prepping; trying to get off stage with our gear as they were setting up theirs in this tiny space and also trying to get onstage whilst our guitarist was still packing down (always a bugbear - f**king WAIT for us to be completely clear) was carnage. Plus the floor was soaking wet so we didn’t really want to put our gear directly on it.

 

Anyway, organisational issues aside, we managed a loud, raucous 45 minute set (which we’d been told by the organisers as we arrived was 60 minutes…) and, on the whole, had fun. Katy’s acoustic kept feeding back and the onstage volume was blisteringly loud but overall actually I had a good balance of all the instruments. We sang, rocked out and enjoyed ourselves, then ate our token free hot dog and left 😃

 

Photo to show the daft “VIP” area directly in front of the band which meant all the crowd behind the barriers were miles from us and a bit annoyed they couldn’t be closer…

 

That's ridiculous having a VIP area like that. From a band point of view you want proper fans down the front and the rich elitist "look at me" lot should be to one side if at all. Fine for huge stadiums but not a marquee tent. Just seems a bit pretentious of the organisers IMO.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

15 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Probably not much of a highlight Dave.  But remember as a single guy and not much of a cook, it was a big score for me. Lol

 

Being a smallish  intimate party, we didn't bring much production. I will say for a small intimate party our manager did a nice job with the lighting. 

 

Daryl

Good food thrown in is always a big plus Daryl. 

We always take our own sandwiches and juice etc but we regularly get offered the buffet at private parties but having already eaten we don't bother too much. There's always a McD's option on the drive home. 🤩🍟🍔

Anyways i thought you had a steady girlfriend ?

Dave

[dmccombe7]

6 hours ago, AlexDelores said:

I saw the video of this on your IG and wondered what was going on with the seated bit in front of the main crowd.
 

I’d of felt so awkward if I was sitting in that bit with a big crowd of people watching over my head! 

Sounded good though 👌
 

 

Yep good point. Not sure i could sit in that section.

Dave

[AlexDelores]

4 hours ago, neepheid said:

Bit of a late report, but I was like a burst ba' yesterday.  Saturday night, played at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh with Nine Lives.  We'd had a few weeks off and I was struggling to get myself in the mood, ngl.  Just felt "off" - didn't help that we got set up in good time so there was about half an hour of hanging about, punctuated by people coming up to us and generally getting in the way, which was its usual irritating influence and I think I let it get to me more than usual.  Thankfully, once we got going, the cobwebs were shaken off and I got right back into the actual business of performing and hopefully entertaining.

 

Played pretty well, a few wee bloops but nothing worth anything more than pulling a funny face and having a laugh with the drummer about.  Also threw a new song into the set for the first time (Foo Fighters - "The Pretender") and it went really well, both from a playing perspective and audience reaction, so looks like it's a successful addition.

 

Gear was the Burny LSB-80 followed by the Reverend Triad into the cubes of doom.  Actually, I was really pleased with my sound, especially with the Triad - just used series combinations all night and it fair punched a hole in the air!

 

That Burny looks very nice indeed! I’ve never heard of them before… 

 

Right, off to Google I go 😅