How was your gig last night?

[Bluewine]

8 hours ago, bassintheface said:

So I've spent the last week rehearsing & playing bass for the excellent (and lovely) Whitney Lyman - a singer songwriter from the USA.

 

I got booked a few weeks back and she arrived from LA last Monday.

we rehearsed Tuesday, then played in London on weds, then a few gigs up North at the brilliant Focus Wales festival.

 

Some recording  got done yesterday and a little more later in the week, then she's back to sunny California.

 

Had  great time, band was sh1t hot and enjoyed it.

 

Used my Jazz basses, Peavey MiniMax500 and my Barefaced 2x10 - good compliments on the sound from the sound engineer too (and the EQ was flat as  a pancake).

 

Plans being made for another visit and some festival dates all being well.....

just need to get asked to do some USA dates now 🤣

 

Now that sounds cool. I wish I had some UK gigs.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

13 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Played The Lending Room in Leeds on Saturday supporting The Faces Of Sarah.

 

It's a decent-sized venue with a great PA and lighting system, but is upstairs from a student pub. Every time, no matter what time of year, I have been here, the pub downstairs has been rammed full of students all in fancy dress getting very drunk. It's a complete contrast to the audience upstairs. A slightly smaller crowd than usual, but still very appreciative. Plenty of people down the front dancing. Fewer problems than two weeks ago. The footswitch problem appears to have been solved by a different choice of footwear and the wireless bug stayed firmly attached to my bass. However our singer managed to forget the words to the second verse of a different song to last time. Still sold a decent amount of T-shirts and CDs afterwards. We're close to selling out of copies of "Lost Souls", we have two gigs coming up in a fortnight's time and after those they may well all be gone.

 

As usual gig photos courtesy of Oh My Goth:

 

 

Next gigs are in two week's time first on Saturday 24th May in Bradford at the 1-12 Club as part of the ReVamped event and then on Sunday 25th in Nottingham at The Chapel as part of the Dot-To-Dot Festival.

 

Nice pics. You guys look great !

 

Daryl

[StingRayBoy42]

Remember a cople of weeks ago when I said "For every decent gig I do, there's fifty rubbish pub gigs that make me think "Why do I bother...?""?
Well, I did TWO of them this weekend with the Cantina Band.
Friday was the Meathead's Arms in Sutton Coldfield, hardly anyone there, we played well, my current squeeze came to see us for the first time and loved it, which was nice.

Saturday was a Rugby Club do - we assumed it would be a great gig and it was for the first five songs, then everyone started drifting away and by the end there were about ten people there.
The highlight was going for a wireless wander (out of boredom) and discovering the cheese table at the back - I played half the last song one handed while eating celery and Red Leicester.

Ho hum, paid rehearsals!

Edited 7 hours ago by StingRayBoy42

[Mickeyboro]

4 minutes ago, StingRayBoy42 said:
The highlight was going for a wireless wander (out of boredom) and discovering the cheese table at the back - I played half the last song one handed while eating celery and Red Leicester.

Ho hum, paid rehearsals!

Sounds like a brie-ze!

[StingRayBoy42]

15 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Sounds like a brie-ze!

 

It was a Feta-ccompli!

[Norris]

1 hour ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Ho hum, paid rehearsals!

Sounds like you didn't give e-dam about it!

[Mickeyboro]

6 minutes ago, Norris said:

Sounds like you didn't give e-dam about it!

As in cheese bored?🥱 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Now that sounds cool. I wish I had some UK gigs.

 

Daryl

 

If you ever come to the UK I'm sure I could get you a gig or two. Not big money though

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

 

It was a Feta-ccompli!

 

Take it Caerphilly...