How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

1 minute ago, Bluewine said:

 

Thanks Dave

 

Daryl

Was @Dad3353 that put the links up Daryl. Not sure what the difference is between the two but i think mine is the basic one.

Dave

[MacDaddy]

Royal Blues, @ Off the Cuff, Herne Hill, that London.

Support band slot to The Road, so not the usual crowd for our brand of blues based Americana. Only 2 backing vocalists this time, and stunning work by the ladies in rejigging the 3 part harmonies.

@Al Krow of this parish was in attendance (turns out we share a singer) so I was hyper aware that any bass fluffs would be immediately noticeable to at least one person in the audience 😆.

The venue is in the arches of railway bridge, and it was quite noticeable when trains were going over, but fortunately not when we were playing. 

Fun gig, I think we played well.

 

Ibanez UB804 -> Getaria wireless -> Digitech BP355 -> FOH / Warwick Pro Fet 3, Calsborough 4x10.

 

 

 

Some clips of the gig on The Facebook story thing, listen with headphones or decent speakers:

https://www.facebook.com/stories/122094436502361314/UzpfSVNDOjY0ODE5OTkwODI4MjQ4Nw==/?view_single=1&mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

 

Footwear: maroon creepers.

 

 

 

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

Royal Blues, @ Off the Cuff, Herne Hill, that London.

Support band slot to The Road, so not the usual crowd for our brand of blues based Americana. Only 2 backing vocalists this time, and stunning work by the ladies in rejigging the 3 part harmonies.

@Al Krow of this parish was in attendance (turns out we share a singer) so I was hyper aware that any bass fluffs would be immediately noticeable to at least one person in the audience 😆.

The venue is in the arches of railway bridge, and it was quite noticeable when trains were going over, but fortunately not when we were playing. 

Fun gig, I think we played well.

 

Ibanez UB804 -> Getaria wireless -> Digitech BP355 -> FOH / Warwick Pro Fet 3, Calsborough 4x10.

 

 

 

Some clips of the gig on The Facebook story thing, listen with headphones or decent speakers:

https://www.facebook.com/stories/122094436502361314/UzpfSVNDOjY0ODE5OTkwODI4MjQ4Nw==/?view_single=1&mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

 

Footwear: maroon creepers.

 

 

 

Nice deep bass tone. Loving that tone.

Dave

[MacDaddy]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Nice deep bass tone. Loving that tone.

Dave

 

Ta. FOH was just from the BP355. The Amp sim set to 'DI' and EQ'd specifically for the UB804.

Otherwise it's all in the fingers! 😉

[martthebass]

Our annual Christmas gig for the Mencap gateway charity last night. Always a fun loving and appreciative crowd. This is where Christmas starts for us.

[Muzz]

On 08/12/2025 at 17:35, martthebass said:

There’s a club we’ve played a couple of times in Hull, great gig but they insist on playing music at 130dB between spots and at the end of the night during pack up. We decided to knock it on the head despite request for return next year.

There's a place we play I call The Weasel Dust Palace, which turns into a club (we basically play on the dance floor, it's a nightmare packing down around people who immediately invade the band space once the DJ starts) as soon as we finish, and recently they rebuilt the sound system with 18" subs in the walls and a generally bigger system. The DJ is the owner's teenage son, and the sound level as we were packing down last time was unbelievable - you could feel the air moving the hairs on your arms - I had to put my inears back in (unplugged) it was so loud...

[martthebass]

23 minutes ago, Muzz said:

There's a place we play I call The Weasel Dust Palace, which turns into a club (we basically play on the dance floor, it's a nightmare packing down around people who immediately invade the band space once the DJ starts) as soon as we finish, and recently they rebuilt the sound system with 18" subs in the walls and a generally bigger system. The DJ is the owner's teenage son, and the sound level as we were packing down last time was unbelievable - you could feel the air moving the hairs on your arms - I had to put my inears back in (unplugged) it was so loud...

I put in 31dB Decibulz for the pack down and it was still deafening 😞

[martthebass]

11 hours ago, martthebass said:

Our annual Christmas gig for the Mencap gateway charity last night. Always a fun loving and appreciative crowd. This is where Christmas starts for us.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16YNpDumo2/?mibextid=K35XfP

[dmccombe7]

13 hours ago, martthebass said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16YNpDumo2/?mibextid=K35XfP

wont open for me Mart.

I normally remove the "s" from the https to copy and paste to BC.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

Weird one for me today. 

First ever loading the car in the dark this morning to head up to Methil in Fife for 11am load in. Doors open 1pm and we start 2pm.

The good news we finish around 5pm and hopefully away by 6pm, home via the Indian takeaway for approx 8pm. Easy peasy.

Not sure how this will go today. There was a mix up with the bookings when the organiser went off sick and someone else took a booking for another band. We originally were booked 4-7 but they asked if we could move it to 2-5 to allow them to keep the booking for the 2nd band too. As long as we're getting paid same fee we said yes and all was agreed. Will it be busy ? mmmmmmmmm personally i don't think it will but a paid rehearsal for our main weekend next week when we are out Fri and Sat nights.

Wish me luck. Heading out now. 

Rock & Roll lifestyle, couldnae beat it wie a big stick. 😂

Dave 🤶🎅

[martthebass]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

wont open for me Mart.

I normally remove the "s" from the https to copy and paste to BC.

Dave

 

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Weird one for me today. 

First ever loading the car in the dark this morning to head up to Methil in Fife for 11am load in. Doors open 1pm and we start 2pm.

The good news we finish around 5pm and hopefully away by 6pm, home via the Indian takeaway for approx 8pm. Easy peasy.

Not sure how this will go today. There was a mix up with the bookings when the organiser went off sick and someone else took a booking for another band. We originally were booked 4-7 but they asked if we could move it to 2-5 to allow them to keep the booking for the 2nd band too. As long as we're getting paid same fee we said yes and all was agreed. Will it be busy ? mmmmmmmmm personally i don't think it will but a paid rehearsal for our main weekend next week when we are out Fri and Sat nights.

Wish me luck. Heading out now. 

Rock & Roll lifestyle, couldnae beat it wie a big stick. 😂

Dave 🤶🎅

Have a good one Dave. We’re lucky and have one just 5 miles down the road - a compact and bijou WMC. As were entering our dotage we tend to stick more locally when BST ends….yes we are sad and old 🤣plus at least that way there’s less chance I’ll push the old mini of doom through the hedges of a dark country lane 😂

Edited 21 minutes ago by martthebass