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 6 hours ago by martthebass

[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

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

[tauzero]

Last night was a curate's egg of a gig for Dirty Roses.

 

The venue was the Old Court, King's Heath, Birmingham. It's on a busy road, with a residential street of tightly packed terraced houses by the side of it, so parking was a nightmare. I managed to squeeze in by the pub, making use of Mrs Zero's blue badge (Mrs Zero was with me, I wouldn't use it illegally). Went in and was "greeted" by the most miserable looking and unwelcoming barmaid I've seen in my life, who led me to the doors through which I was to load in. I've just had a flare up of gout in my right foot, so it was rather painful bringing everything in - this is the band I do the PA for so there were numerous trips to the car. While I was doing that, Mrs Zero asked about moving the furniture out of the way, to which the miserable harridan replied that it was busy (there were five people in the pub plus us) and there were only two of them on, so we'd have to move the furniture. The singer arrived and he and Mrs Zero moved the furniture while I was loading in, then the guitarist arrived. We'd got pretty much set up by the time the drummer arrived - I was still rigging the PA so the others helped bringing in the kit.

 

Anyroadup, we had a fair bit of space, and a whole one mains socket each side of the appointed area. There was a bit of response from one somewhat enthusiastic woman and what I presume was her equally enthusiastic daughter, but as the evening went on we got more and more of them moving and singing along. At one point in the second set we have a choice of two songs depending on reading the room, and we went for Time Warp - a good choice. The WAGs did their duty and led the calls for more. Oh, and the big TV behind us? They left the bastard thing on all night.

 

 

There was another (younger and friendlier) barmaid who told us afterwards that we'd gone down really well, and then asked us to put the furniture back. We loaded up and then buggered off - we shouldn't have had to move the furniture in the first place, and we CBA to move it back too.

 

So it's somewhere we never want to go back to, though the gig itself was good.

[WalMan]

Good one in the end last night. Started off looking like it might be a quiet night, presumably for Christmas works do’s but it filled up before we started and they were well up for it and singing all night.

 

I had a minor op on my ankle last Tuesday to remove the screws put into my heel last year that showed as having come out the other side of the heel bone and thought to be the cause of some pain in the ankle with the hope that this would fix things and won’t require further surgery to fuse the ankle (with another 6 weeks non weight bearing). Walked out of hospital Tuesday after and am fully mobile, but I hope a couple of sets stood up won’t have a negative effect.

 

A few new songs in the set and a big re jig of order that seemed to work well for the most part. I did have a major brain fart three songs in and got completely lost in a song we’ve done for yonks 🤦‍♂️

 

IEM’s generally worked ok and the bass sounded lovely in there. It would be good if I could work out running in stereo to split out the guitars. When they’re playing harmony lines the separation is good, but if both are doing chords it can become muddled. Should be feasible as there are spare aux channels on the desk.

 

Gear: FrankenJazz -> Darkglass Anagram -> Darkglass Microtubes 500 -> Barefaced BigBaby2.

Shoes: Barefoot (rh) / Post surgery boot (lh) 

 

No gig tonight, it’s the band Christmas meal 🎅🏻

Edited 3 hours ago by WalMan

[neepheid]

How is my gig tonight?  Cancelled - singer's got the flu.  Baws.  Oh well, one of my mates is coming round for a few drams instead.  Evening, saved!

[Stub Mandrel]

56 minutes ago, WalMan said:

I had a minor op on my ankle last Tuesday to remove the screws put into my heel last year that showed as having come out the other side of the heel bone and thought to be the cause of some pain in the ankle with the hope that this would fix things and won’t require further surgery to fuse the ankle (with another 6 weeks non weight bearing). Walked out of hospital Tuesday after and am fully mobile, but I hope a couple of sets stood up won’t have a negative effect.

 

 I hope it works. I saw a podiatricians and physiotherapists about my left ankle. It's much larger than normal due to extra bone around multiple breaks, and loss of cartilage, so I get bone on bone if my knee goes forward. But to get to the point, the best two things they told me were "we're used to stopping when things hurt so we don't make things worse. Fir this you need to do the opposite, the more it hurts, the more you're keeping mobility and building muscle around the joint" and in more carefully guarded words "A specialist will recommend fusing the joint, don't let them as you will lose so much mobilty which will be really bad long term". They did say that if a specialist offers to clean bone fragments out of the joint, that would be a good thing.

 

TL;DR if offered fusion of the ankle, think very carefully as it could stop you doing a lot of things.

[WalMan]

17 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

 I hope it works. I saw a podiatricians and physiotherapists about my left ankle. It's much larger than normal due to extra bone around multiple breaks, and loss of cartilage, so I get bone on bone if my knee goes forward. But to get to the point, the best two things they told me were "we're used to stopping when things hurt so we don't make things worse. Fir this you need to do the opposite, the more it hurts, the more you're keeping mobility and building muscle around the joint" and in more carefully guarded words "A specialist will recommend fusing the joint, don't let them as you will lose so much mobilty which will be really bad long term". They did say that if a specialist offers to clean bone fragments out of the joint, that would be a good thing.

 

TL;DR if offered fusion of the ankle, think very carefully as it could stop you doing a lot of things.

Interesting. I had tendons replaced last year as well as the screws in my heel. Generally worked, but if I walked more than a mile or stand for too long the ankle becomes increasingly painful.

 

Went back to see the consultant a few weeks back and he was suggesting fusing, but having seen the CT scan he could see that one of last year’s screws in the heel was out the other side of the bone so we went with “take the screws out of the heel” as that was quick and did not require lengthy recuperation. Hopefully that works and I don’t need to consider more. 
 

He can see arthritis in the joint but it’s not too bad. Maybe I should just accept I’m old and need to slow down and make allowances.

Edited 1 hour ago by WalMan

[casapete]

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

Oh, and the big TV behind us? They left the bastard thing on all night.

We won’t play with TVs on in the same room. If they want music, then off they go. 
Beats me as to why anyone would want both at the same time TBH.