How was your gig last night?

[Rosie C]

Not my gig, but I was in the studio yesterday recording the first couple of tracks for my second album. The studio engineer, who is also guitarist and sometime backing vocalist on my recordings, casually dropped into the conversation that he opened for Planet Rock's "Winters End" festival on Thursday... and I get this guy whenever I need on my amateur recordings! 

 

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Rosie C

[ossyrocks]

I'm having quite a difficult week. 

Started feeling a bit "off" on Monday, by rehearsal on Wednesday I was "taking it easy" on the vocals. Come Thursday I lost my voice entirely and had a very  sore throat, a cough, and felt weary, but I was house bass player at Lancaster Funk Club in the evening, and got through it just about. Friday I had committed to a dep gig with another Blues band, thankfully an early shift 6pm-8pm, so was home and in bed by 9.30pm. Today my band are top spot at The January Blues Festival in Colne, and there's no way I can sing a note. Thankfully we share lead vocal duties, so we've hashed out a set where I don't sing at all, but it's still going to be hard as I feel like death. My wife has also come down with it. We think it's covid, but I have no choice but for the show to go on. Wish me luck!

 

Rob

[Bluewine]

12 hours ago, Rosie C said:

Not my gig, but I was in the studio yesterday recording the first couple of tracks for my second album. The studio engineer, who is also guitarist and sometime backing vocalist on my recordings, casually dropped into the conversation that he opened for Planet Rock's "Winters End" festival on Thursday... and I get this guy whenever I need on my amateur recordings! 

 

 

 

Great pic! Really nice.

 

Daryl

[knirirr]

We played The Shed in Charlbury tonight; it's a small venue but popular with the jazz crowd. This was a fundraising gig to cover some of the costs of the recent refurbishment there (nice to have working electricity which is up to safety standards...).
It was a good turnout considering we'd never played there before and the locals wouldn't have known what they were going to get. Luckily, they seemed to have liked it. 

 

[Norris]

I've never known pubs to be so busy in January - another one rammed tonight. They were not very dancy, well there wasn't really the space, so it was a bit of a proggy night instead. We even had a little blast of Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), and I found my lawnmower patch in time 😂

 

The tools of the trade - Sub5 Stingish bass, GT-6B, Rumble v3 500. Black DMs.

 

Some lovely compliments too. It's always nice when people acknowledge the bass.

 

We have a couple of weekends off now.

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Norris

[Rosie C]

11 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Great pic! Really nice.

 

Daryl

 

I think it was the official Planet Rock camera person. 

 

[martthebass]

After our usual few weeks off in January, we were back at it at a fairly local WMC, Maltby Catholic Club. Despite being local we’d not played this venue before. The gig was well publicised resulting in a packed house. Both spots were well attended by dancers and a promise of a further gig, love it when a plan comes together. 
Talking with the proprietor, turns out the place wasn’t doing too well when the took it over last year but since investing in better live music acts the place is now thriving which was great to hear.

EBMM shorty stingray, Boss pedals, Markbass little Marcus 500, 2 x Markbass NY121.

 

Silver Converse Chuckie Ts.

 

Edited 5 minutes ago by martthebass