How was your gig last night?

[Paddy777]

Had a very busy weekend and a break from the norm with some great dep gigs. Fri night & Sat morning depped in a production of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, a very professional show and a chance to flex my reading chops, I then went straight from that gig on Saturday 120 miles down to a Holiday Park near Scarborough to dep for a band playing at an end of season party to finish off a very busy Saturday. Quite a contrast but some fun tunes to play. The theatre show was in a really nice old Theatre in Newcastle city centre, I took a few photos from the pit where I was sitting, it really gives the place a proper old timey feel rather than some of the sterile newer places. 
 

[Twigman]

On Saturday we played at Gagarin205 in Athens - the venue looked fantastic lit up at night. Sadly I only have a daytime pic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and an aerial view of the soundcheck in moody black and white:

 

 

 

 

and a view of the audience from the stage:

 

 

 

 

We sold 1200 tickets.

The venue was full.

Punters were being turned away!

We had a few technical gremlins but overall it was a successful (and profitable) adventure.

 

My kit for the night:

EBMM Sterling 4HH> Shure GLXD16+ wireless> Empress compressor> Cog CE-2B clone(some songs)>  DHA EQ >DI Box (split off to PA) > locally Ampeg B5R > Ampeg 4x10

 

 

PS - Athens was full of Scotsmen attending the football:

 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Twigman

[dmccombe7]

4 hours ago, Twigman said:

On Saturday we played at Gagarin205 in Athens - the venue looked fantastic lit up at night. Sadly I only have a daytime pic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and an aerial view of the soundcheck in moody black and white:

 

 

 

 

and a view of the audience from the stage:

 

 

 

 

We sold 1200 tickets.

The venue was full.

Punters were being turned away!

We had a few technical gremlins but overall it was a successful (and profitable) adventure.

 

My kit for the night:

EBMM Sterling 4HH> Shure GLXD16+ wireless> Empress compressor> Cog CE-2B clone(some songs)>  DHA EQ >DI Box (split off to PA) > locally Ampeg B5R > Ampeg 4x10

 

 

PS - Athens was full of Scotsmen attending the football:

 

 

Nice one.

How did you manage to get that gig ?

Bet the drive home was a bummer 😂

Dave

[Lozz196]

I played there a few years back, great venue.
 

Afterwards the rest of the band got tear-gassed by the police when outside for a (very inefficient it turned out) breath of fresh air.

[Twigman]

13 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

How did you manage to get that gig ?

It seems we're quite popular in Athens.

This was our ninth gig there.

We played Gagarin for the first time back in 2009 - we've also played at The Rodeo Club twice,  Six d.o.g.s once, The AN Club three times and played the Death Disco festival in 2023, headlining the second stage.

There have been two promoters fighting over the right to put us on for several years.

The Death Disco festival was the first with the current promoter - he seems to be able to do a better job so we'll stick with this guy.

Edited 5 hours ago by Twigman

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Twigman said:

It seems we're quite popular in Athens.

This was our ninth gig there.

We played Gagarin for the first time back in 2009 - we've also played at The Rodeo Club twice,  Six d.o.g.s once, The AN Club three times and played the Death Disco festival in 2023, headlining the second stage.

There have been two promoters fighting over the right to put us on for several years.

The Death Disco festival was the first with the current promoter - he seems to be able to do a better job so we'll stick with this guy.

Well done.

What kind of music are you playing ? 

Dave

[Twigman]

38 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

What kind of music are you playing ? 

We seem to get lumped in with 'darkwave' (recently played gigs with Sisters of Mercy, the Mission, Lebanon Hanover, She Past Away, etc )  but we're not.

The greek crowd, well you can see from the audience shot,  look sort of goth/darkwave - I don't get the connection.

Check out our Spotify and you tell me

 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Twigman said:

We seem to get lumped in with 'darkwave' (recently played gigs with Sisters of Mercy, the Mission, Lebanon Hanover, She Past Away, etc )  but we're not.

The greek crowd, well you can see from the audience shot,  look sort of goth/darkwave - I don't get the connection.

Check out our Spotify and you tell me

 

Ooohhh liking some of that. I can hear similarities to Goth thing but it reminds me of some of the more light hearted bands from early 80's but just can't put my finger on who it i've got in my head.

Sounds really good tho and i'd enjoy your gig.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Dave