How was your gig last night?

[theplumber]

1 minute ago, dmccombe7 said:

And they think they're more important than the band. Full of themselves too.

Dave

Yip...it was a mixed crowd but he was playing mainly for the younger ones.....that said he played some stuff from TTF which was out in 1993!! But folk started leaving when he went on after us. There was still enough to finish the night with although we had to drop a few songs to take it up to finishing time at the pub!

[neepheid]

Last night (just), played with Nine Lives at the Pittendrum Bar in Sandhaven - a wee villiage near Fraserburgh.  Unfortunately, it wasn't very busy, maybe 15 folk in at the peak.  The apologetic barmaid told us later on that since they had booked us, a bunch of stuff got organised in the "big smoke" of Fraserburgh which may have contributed to the lack of bodies.  It was probably for the best, because I was far from my best.  Having had only 4 hours sleep and basically waking up to go to the gig (work's Christmas do the night before - don't ask), I was so tired that as well as making a few pretty horrible flubs, I forgot to hook up my extension cab - did the whole gig with just the 250W combo and single speaker.  Didn't even notice until packing up time when I couldn't figure out where my speakon>speakon cable had gone.  Bloody hell.

 

This dopey so-and-so played the Neep One followed by the DeArmond Jetstar (the wonky boi) into a single Markbass CMD combo sitting on top of a completely ornamental New York 121 cab.  FFS.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Last night (just), played with Nine Lives at the Pittendrum Bar in Sandhaven - a wee villiage near Fraserburgh.  Unfortunately, it wasn't very busy, maybe 15 folk in at the peak.  The apologetic barmaid told us later on that since they had booked us, a bunch of stuff got organised in the "big smoke" of Fraserburgh which may have contributed to the lack of bodies.  It was probably for the best, because I was far from my best.  Having had only 4 hours sleep and basically waking up to go to the gig (work's Christmas do the night before - don't ask), I was so tired that as well as making a few pretty horrible flubs, I forgot to hook up my extension cab - did the whole gig with just the 250W combo and single speaker.  Didn't even notice until packing up time when I couldn't figure out where my speakon>speakon cable had gone.  Bloody hell.

 

This dopey so-and-so played the Neep One followed by the DeArmond Jetstar (the wonky boi) into a single Markbass CMD combo sitting on top of a completely ornamental New York 121 cab.  FFS.

 

 

Nothing to do with bingeing the advent calendar?  😁

[neepheid]

15 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Nothing to do with bingeing the advent calendar?  😁

 

Nah, as you will see in the whisky thread, I've been lagging behind with that. But yes, I was rather inebriated on Friday night.

[Norris]

The Old Inn in Littlethorpe is tiny. We're used to squeezing in there so have learnt to travel as light as possible.

 

 

The Stingish bass was back out. I think I prefer the simplicity of a 2-band EQ. As you can see it was a bit cramped.

 

 

The night started a little bit quiet but soon got much busier. In this place we nearly always have people encroaching or knocking the mic stands as they pass by. However I can heartily recommend the fluorescent pink duck tape! It kept everyone at bay. I don't think most people consciously noticed it but it was quite amusing to see the effect.

 

[Cat Burrito]

My final show of 2025 was also a debut at Devizes’ White Bear, a famously haunted 15th century coach house. Dubbed as “The White Bear before Christmas”, our visuals guy had declined doing a Jack Skellington type poster design due to copyright. I admire his principles. Having lost our other regular payer, I had high hopes to make this a good show. 
 

 

The vibe was very friendly and our hard push across all of our social media platforms paid off. Loads of familiar faces showed up. I did a walk around prior to going on, giving out band badges. I was playing mandocello, my Precision bass, mandolin and guitar. 
 

We decided to dress extra smart to make it more of an event. Nick’s legendary 86yr old mum came down to support us (again) and told me afterwards that we just get better. The landlady was extremely happy and said the whole pub was blown away, even the people in the back bar that I wasn’t convinced we’d win over. 
 

We have a couple of super fans who have been to the last few shows who showed up. It looks like we’re back for our 2026 album launch in the spring. A definite success. 

[Woodinblack]

My gig was slightly overshaddowed by some medical even that I won't go into here. We were playing at a very local to me pub, that we used to play at a lot and hadn't played at this year, ever since they booked us for new year a few years ago and then promptly forgot about. Anyway, management changed so played there on saturday night. I got there later than I would normally, normally get there an hour and half early to setup, but I was later than that, so when I turned up, the others were on hand to unload my car which was nice. For some reason it seemed a mostly quick setup (maybe because I had less time), and apart from finding a plug, that they had moved all of, a pretty easy one.

Did a sound check, remember one feature of that pub is that it has shiney walls, shiney floor, shiney ceiling (a long way up) and shiney beams everywhere so remembered to turn all the reverb on the desk down (which you do and the band still say 'can you back the reverb off a bit' - 'its completely dry').

Bass and guitar sounded good and the sax projected - the sax player found an issue with his new nux sax sender, the unit charges in the case, the case was fully charged, but when you put the unit in the box, you have to press a button to tell it to charge, and he hadn't, so it was dead, but he got 40 minutes of charge before and charged at half time and no issues, seems a bit of a stupid design.

I played the ric, but for some reason the output seemed a bit down. Gig mostly went ok, my dwarf crashed at one point when I was changing things, which leads to its most annoying feature, crashed it carries on as before but you can't change anything (its like the front end crashes), but unplugging it and plugging it in takes about 30 seconds to boot up and be ready, and the band picked that moment to not have much of a break between songs!

I also for the second time ever (the first time being my first time with the previous band) forgot to do the 3rd verse of 7 nation army.

As we didn't have any rehursal time we decided to just do the one of our christmas songs we remembered, the easy one, and still messed that up a little in the middle, but I dont' think anyone noticed that.

anyway, crowd were unusually (for that venue) enthusiastic, and it was a good night from a gig point of view.

Due to aformentioned medical issues, I had to rush out but not before hearing the singer talking to a woman who was trying to outbid another pub on us playing next new years eve!