How was your gig last night?

[Stub Mandrel]

10 minutes ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

There's a heavy metal band that insists on having everything on stage set up in *exactly* the same way at every gig... they're called OCDC.

 

Their rivals are utterly chaotic.

AD/HD.

[Franticsmurf]

I played a charity gig with the Hulla band last night at Rhossili village hall (that's right on the windy end of Gower and last night was very windy). It was in aid of Brain Tumour Research (organised by someone whose daughter has recently been diagnosed) and well attended for such a stormy night. The hall has a proper stage but as a thirteen pieces, we manage to fill the space of most stages and tonight was no exception. I was stage left as usual but at least I had a small off stage area that my headstock could fit in. The set was a mix of rocky stuff, a bit of C&W and Stones songs, requested by the organiser. Pizza and drinks were supplied for the band, which was very thoughtful as we had an early setup and little time to eat. 

 

Lots of dancing, some tears at the speeches, more dancing and some dodgy (but great) audience singing. We had a 'mare during 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' when, for no obvious reason, the arrangement went jazz on us and I found it hard to get back to some kind of normality. Later, the singer/guitarist jumped off the stage (about 3 feet) and as he landed, the battery pack for his wireless guitar setup fell off the strap and bounced across the floor. He was set to solo and instead I had to fill in the gap with some bass runs while the crowd picked up the pieces and handed them back to him. That seemed to clear the jinx and the rest of the set was fine. The inevitable 'one more song' chant led to an extended encore and a later finish that we were expecting but everyone stayed to the end and I was home by 12.30. 

 

Kit last night was my Fender P Bass going through the Behringer TU300 tuner (I can't get on with clip-on tuners) and my Behringer BDI21 which fed the desk from it's DI and my IEM from the jack socket. I was trying to keep things simple as I knew there wouldn't be much space on stage. Footwear was a pair of black no brand boots.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[neepheid]

Still buzzing from last night's gig with Nine Lives at the Harbour Lights in Peterhead.  Yay, a stage!  Yay, a sound engineer and house PA!  So we found ourselves in the unusual position of being ready to go about half an hour before show time.  It was pretty busy, certainly the busiest I remember it being at this particular venue, there seemed to be a constant, but varying level of 30-40 folk in the bar at any one time.  I worried that we'd be a bit rusty, being the first gig since the beginning of December, but we played really well, a few minor bloops here and there but nothing showstopping.  And boy did I feel frisky - I went on three wireless walkarounds during the gig (or was it four?).  General shape throwing/posing on stage and I'm feeling pretty creaky today.  But all in all, cracking night, got some great comments and chit chat with a few of the punters.  Had the obligatory drunk guy thus:

 

Punter: "Can you play some Metallica?"

Me: "Sure, in a couple of songs"

...

*band plays Enter Sandman*

...

Punter: "You said you'd play Metallica!"
Me: "Umm, we did?"

Punter: "Aww, I missed it"

*I shrug*

 

Well, we're not going to play it again, are we?  FFS!

 

Anyway, apart from that, cracking night, loads of folks up dancing, a new song in the set went without a hitch, got some great feedback, got paid (and got told that we could up our price next time), reduced load in/out due to not having to provide PA.  Just all kinds of good really.

 

Gear was the Cort Curbow then the Ibanez ATK into the usual toan cubes (which weren't doing that much, mostly just providing the feed to the desk, had a wedge in front of me)