Bluewine Posted Sunday at 18:17 Posted Sunday at 18:17 7 hours ago, martthebass said: 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. The room looks packed. Nice Daryl 1 Quote
Bluewine Posted Sunday at 18:22 Posted Sunday at 18:22 4 hours ago, neepheid said: Some video emerged from last weekend's gig. Just in case you thought I just set up my rig in random places and photograph it every other weekend 20260124 Harbour Lights - Zombie.mp4 34.61 MB · 0 downloads Nice crowd! Daryl 1 Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted Sunday at 23:07 Posted Sunday at 23:07 7 hours ago, scrumpymike said: One of the new numbers was No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age and our percussion was enhanced by the sound of my knees knocking together as the fear of what I was about to attempt took a hold of me. Fcuk the gig money! Nailing that song was what made my night 🙂 Just watched the video. That deer eerily reminds me of Hartley Hare... 1 Quote
colleya Posted yesterday at 18:43 Posted yesterday at 18:43 (edited) On 01/02/2026 at 14:38, colleya said: It's always the innocuous stuff that gets you isn't it? We've got a gig tonight - first one at what looks like a very promising venue. Midweek I put my hand in my pocket and got my right index fingernail caught in the clip of a pen - nearly took the whole nail off. After some emergency nail file work from my better half and daughter we saved it and it feels ok when noodling around this morning. Phew! According to the band WhatsApp this morning, the drummer, sax and singer are all suffering from heavy colds. Could be an 'interesting' one...... After all the worry, it was great! Really cool venue, The Acoustic Lounge in Poynton. All the good things you want from a venue - easy to find, car park right next to load in doors, loads of plug sockets, great staff, first drink free and they have bands on every weekend so people know to come for live music. By no means full but with a decent crowd for a Sunday night and even some dancers. A very civilised 7pm start and 9.30pm finish meant I was in bed for just after 11 - bonus on a school night. Easily the best we've played - this was only our 4th full gig as a band and 2nd as a 5 piece with sax. Rig was Fender Jazz 5 Kazuki Arai --> (new) Xvive P58 wireless --> HX Stomp --> PA. Footwear was Vans classics. Lots of positive feedback from punters and venue, including a guy from another band who recorded pretty much the whole gig and sent us the 4k files. Brilliant stuff! Don't know if Jon from Loop & Swing is on here, but thanks a million if you are! Here are some of his clips: And I'm even going to risk submitting a bit of me attempting some slap: Edited 1 hour ago by colleya 15 Quote
Rayman Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago Good gig, weird crowd. First time out for the Godin Dorchester, an absolute beast of a bass, massive pickups, massive output, I really had to turn it down. A fun night and a long two hour set, so we were cooked by the end of it. 13 Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted 19 hours ago Posted 19 hours ago (edited) 43 minutes ago, Rayman said: an absolute beast of a bass Which one? I'm guessing the Firebird, because my Embassy which sounds lots like a Firebird is a wall-shaker! D'oh! You mean the other one... I assumed the Godin was a venue in Dorchester... 🤣 Edited 19 hours ago by Stub Mandrel 1 Quote
asingardenof Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago On 01/02/2026 at 16:02, scrumpymike said: First gig at the Merriott Social Venue near Yeovil last night. We were pretty rusty not having gigged since before Xmas and having been forced to cancel our last 3 weekly rehearsals due to illness and floods. Singer Kat still hadn't fully recovered from whatever bug had colonised her throat but we all agreed to just turn up and give it our best shot - including several ungigged new numbers. Thankfully Kat smashed it, the crowd loved us, the venue booked us for another gig in May plus their New Year's Eve bash - and a couple booked us for their wedding! One of the new numbers was No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age and our percussion was enhanced by the sound of my knees knocking together as the fear of what I was about to attempt took a hold of me. Fcuk the gig money! Nailing that song was what made my night 🙂 It's a very fun song to play, I wish I could persuade our lot to try it but I suspect it's a bit outside our usual wheelhouse. Quote
asingardenof Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Off to Horbury WMC for a 40th party attended by around 150 people apparently, although you wouldn't know it from the lack of audience involvement. Hey ho. The evening started auspiciously as I managed to find a parking spot literally three feet from the door! After I'd recovered from the shock we set up pretty quickly, said hello to the birthday girl and her husband, soundchecked, then sat around doing nothing for an hour and a half. Went with the by now tried and tested Siredowsky - ABM - Two10S combination, which sounded pretty good on a larger stage. At halftime I was approached by a local guitar tech who preferred his business card, so I'll have to look into that as I don't have a go to one in these parts yet. Managed to grab a bowl of curry, made by our guitarist's ex apparently, before heading back on stage. We all played really well, and our newer songs are sounding really good, apart from our drummist truncating Two Tribes again! We had a couple of half-hearted dancers for a couple of songs but that was about it, but star of the night was the 9(ish)-year-old girl who was dancing and cartwheeling on the dancefloor for the entire second set, which have me a bit of a boost. Before we started our singist approached us all and asked if we'd fancy giving London Calling a bash. Hell yes, I would! 6 Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted 42 minutes ago Posted 42 minutes ago 1 hour ago, asingardenof said: Before we started our singist approached us all and asked if we'd fancy giving London Calling a bash. Hell yes, I would! Recently added to our setlist. Luvvit. Quote
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