How was your gig last night?

[Bluewine]

8 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I'd be looking but don't jump unless you are sure.

 

Maybe just go on Facebook and look for bands needing a regular dep.

 

 

I'm won't jump ship yet Stub. I do think it would be nice to investigate dep opportunities. 

 

Thanks Stub

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

4 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Thanks Pete,

 

The lack of a good drummer concerns me, but should I be worried about something out of my control at my age ?

 

Maybe I'll stick with it. Maybe I'm overreacting to the bad gig last night.

 

Daryl

Just how bad was the gig Daryl ?

Was it simply you picking up on some minor mistakes that an audience wouldn't notice or was it a major failing somewhere.

My apologies but i seem to have missed your gig post on this and just catching up on things now so i'll go back and have a search for it.

I know i hear mistakes on stage but just carry on and play the "jazz version" and no-one will notice as long as you look confident on stage or just laugh it off and the audience will go along with it.

This is live music and sometimes mistooks happen.

Most audiences will accept the occasional mistake IME.

Dave

[casapete]

5 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Thanks Pete,

 

The lack of a good drummer concerns me, but should I be worried about something out of my control at my age ?

 

Maybe I'll stick with it. Maybe I'm overreacting to the bad gig last night.

 

Daryl

I think you’ve probably already answered your own question Daryl - don’t worry about stuff you can’t do anything about. From some of your previous gig reports, you do sometimes seem hard on yourself and the band if things aren’t as perfect as you think, so maybe try to let the small stuff go and just enjoy it? You’re obviously an experienced player who understands your band’s way of gigging, and if the rest of them don’t think there are any serious issues then just go with it. 
Of course you can always keep an eye on anything else that may be presenting itself in the meantime……😉

[Stub Mandrel]

I missed a gig tonight as I was having a meal with a cousin I've only seen twice in a quarter century.

 

They ended up cancelling as our rhythm guitarist found one of his horses dead this evening (😨) and was understandably not up to the gig and it wouldn't have been fair on the deps.

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, casapete said:

I think you’ve probably already answered your own question Daryl - don’t worry about stuff you can’t do anything about. From some of your previous gig reports, you do sometimes seem hard on yourself and the band if things aren’t as perfect as you think, so maybe try to let the small stuff go and just enjoy it? You’re obviously an experienced player who understands your band’s way of gigging, and if the rest of them don’t think there are any serious issues then just go with it. 
Of course you can always keep an eye on anything else that may be presenting itself in the meantime……😉

 Thanks again ,

 

I had a bad night. I'll be fine as soon we have a good gig under our belts again.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 20/02/2026 at 15:59, dmccombe7 said:

Just how bad was the gig Daryl ?

Was it simply you picking up on some minor mistakes that an audience wouldn't notice or was it a major failing somewhere.

My apologies but i seem to have missed your gig post on this and just catching up on things now so i'll go back and have a search for it.

I know i hear mistakes on stage but just carry on and play the "jazz version" and no-one will notice as long as you look confident on stage or just laugh it off and the audience will go along with it.

This is live music and sometimes mistooks happen.

Most audiences will accept the occasional mistake IME.

Dave

 

Hi Dave,

 

I hope it's just me being to picky. We hadn't played together for almost two months. I thought some of our endings were sloppy.  Our lead guitarist was have

Ing problems with her pedal board.  At times I thought the guitars were out of tune. And for this crowd we could have had more dance material. 

 

However, the song flow was good, no dead air between songs. There was always something happening on stage.

 

Daryl 

Edited 5 hours ago by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

On 16/02/2026 at 16:00, dmccombe7 said:

On another side note i've just joined a blues rock band from Edinburgh area. They've seen me play with the Glam band so no audition required they said. They were just happy to get me the BL said. 

Guitarist is a mad Gary Moore fan so that should be fun. They seem to be aiming for that Eric Clapton, Cream, Gary Moore style of Blues Rock which can make for some nice interesting basslines.

Dave

 

 

Sounds cool Dave. Please keep us up to date on this blues rock project. 

 

Daryl

[ossyrocks]

A new venue for us last night, Ruskins Bar in Kendal. A nice music bar in the heart of town, eerily quite at 9pm, but we waited until 9.30pm to start and the place filled up nicely, with lots of people dancing by the end. We used the house PA, which apparently isn't considered to be all that great, but we made it work pretty well for us. They want us back later in the year, and the fee will go up too! I really could have used the 3x10 last night, but I was travelling with the drummer and compromised because of space in the car.

It was nice to meet Ian ( @Pirellithecat ) who travelled an hour down from Ulpha to see us. Cheers!

Rob 

 

[Bluewine]

14 hours ago, ossyrocks said:

A new venue for us last night, Ruskins Bar in Kendal. A nice music bar in the heart of town, eerily quite at 9pm, but we waited until 9.30pm to start and the place filled up nicely, with lots of people dancing by the end. We used the house PA, which apparently isn't considered to be all that great, but we made it work pretty well for us. They want us back later in the year, and the fee will go up too! I really could have used the 3x10 last night, but I was travelling with the drummer and compromised because of space in the car.

It was nice to meet Ian ( @Pirellithecat ) who travelled an hour down from Ulpha to see us. Cheers!

Rob 

 

 

" The fee will go up "

 

That's the best place for fees to go. Lol

 

Daryl

[steantval]

On 15/02/2026 at 22:06, theplumber said:

Well....Back in to The Bungalow on Friday evening and first night of a Mod weekender. Great venue to play! Always a well stocked beer fridge in the green room! A couple of members down,one of the singers was on holiday and we recently lost our keyboard player and also his replacement! To lose one is careless...two is....something! We also have the drummer handing in his notice as he has changed jobs. Decent turnout for a Friday and we seemed to go over pretty well! Sound guy had issues with the bass amp,DI would not work,so he stuck a mike on the cab,then the thing cut out on a song in the second half. But we made it to the end!

Your female vocalist in black is the spitting image of Geri Halliwell.

Edited 5 hours ago by steantval

[Norris]

It was our first time at the 1912 in Sileby and what a great sounding room, with a nice vibe too. They had a low stage in the corner with plenty of room to fit a band on, and more importantly plenty of power sockets in good working order (which makes a change!).

 

The venue also put some effort into advertising the event. We had a room full, but probably 90% were our regular followers. I'd have hoped for a few more locals.

 

With the room sounding so good it probably lifted our performance a little more than normal too.

 

 

We started off with a bit of rock and prog, but for the last set got much more dancy and filled the floor. We had a great night and lots of compliments.

 

Oh, I nearly forgot to mention. The guitarist brought along his old 70s strat which was his sole guitar when we were all poor in the 80s and only had one guitar each. We played together for about 10 years, him on his strat and me on my Aria SB-1000. Well tonight, after much anticipation, he said it left him cold. He struggled to get it to sing and ended up playing the Vintage (brand) thinline tele he'd brought as a spare. He thinks maybe he's just no longer a strat guy, although I did mention he hadn't got the old Marshall combo he used to lug around. At least he still loves the guitar I built for him - a super-lightweight LP Junior double cut copy with twin P90s 😁

 

And look, the lights change colour 😂