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By gibbo on
9/24/2007 10:00 PM
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How the hell can ONE e.v. speaker sound like the Newcastle Arena's in house rig? I don't know, but it did. Thats all the guy doing the Disco for the Leeholme gig had, due to the other being damaged....by....erm...someone....?? Sounded astonishing!
The Leeholme gig was tremendous, a great night for everyone there. It would be a good move for whoever concerned to organize another in the not too distant future.
Admittedly I wasn't looking forward to it due to a sore throat and dizzy spells I'd been getting all week before the gig....BUT....I was wrong to worry, as the vocals were on good form as was our performance as a whole. Wayne was throwing in guest BV's again and Paul came up front singing lead vox and playing one chord rhythm guitar on a Clash number...whilst I cunningly perched myself on his trex and sweat soiled drum stool to lay down the beat....I seld ...
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Two cracking gigs - one croaking voice |
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By mal on
20 September 2007
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Well, none of the others seem to want to put a blog entry in about how good the gig's were last weekend. We played a privately organised do at Leelholme, one fee on the door and then all you can drink for nowt....an we were all driving, bugger!!!...apart from Paul, who probably managed to get his 17 quid's worth and might have had it beaten out of him by one of his mates cos we didn't play learn to fly...whoops!! Anyhow, the gig was good, nice sized hall..sound wise I thought we had a good mix on and off stage...sweating like the preverbial by the end...no change there then. Finale was Paul up on vocals for white riot....and even playing one chord during the lead part....had nightmares about him snapping more than one string by digging the plec in too deep on the downward stroke (cunjure that one up in yer heed!!).
Onto Saturday night at Segga!! The Bat and Ball as it's fondly referred to by our young'n. Crackin night yet again, great feedback....several Encores...and sweat by the ...
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Wax on, Wax off. |
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By mal on
10 September 2007
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I can certainly say that I really enjoyed this weekends gigs...the Blacksmiths was a great gig despite Paul turning up late having gone through the Tyne Tunnel to get to Gosforth!! (I still think he's joking cos not even he's that stupid!! is he?). It was ages since we'd played there, in fact the last time I ended up in Hospital a day or two later.....aya's lads me Knee's hurtin!! Thankfully no such happenings this time. The gig was really good, we opened up with a new tune and it sounded great. So anyway onto this wax on wax off thing...well you'll have to ask Edgy for more info...I mean I've had my back waxed for charity and when I showed the lads they wen't into a catatonic state of shock....but Edgy has gone that one step further...needless to say...when he had 'them' done, it would've been a good impression of Buster Gonad...cos they'd have swollen up like balloons....but to drop his kegs in the middle of the pub just before chucking out time... I felt sick!!
Onto the Spennymoo ...
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By gibbo on
9/9/2007 11:43 AM
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always a delight to play the blacksmiths arms in gosforth and friday night was no exception, all songs seemed to be well received and all feedback was superb. . . . I was chuffed with our new opener. . . Which if i recall. . .Has yet to added to our website song list. Speaking of which we all made an executive decision last night to briefly defect from our new song list and rapidly learn a certain fratellis track that we're being constantly badgered to play, we aim to please. Last nights gig was equally enjoyable in a surreal way. Anyone who's seen us knows how diverse our set is and i'm not sure many people knew what most of our songs were. Non the less, a cracking gig with three encores finishing with a request for the foo fighters classic 'everlong' can you believe? I still stop and wonder, no pun intended, how of get away with most of our set in clubs, maybe its an interesting change for the audience not to hear the usual songs played to death on the club circuit. Maybe its because we're 100% live, bungle ...
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Heightened state of disschuffedness |
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By mal on
01 September 2007
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Well gutted our gig at the Masons has been pulled...I was looking forward to that one. Haven't been told why so it'll be interesting to find out why it was cancelled!!!
On the plus side, I've got me tickets to go and see the Foo's in Manchester in November....can't wait!!
So, we'll just have to introduce that new track next week when we play at the Blacksmiths in Gosforth, always enjoy playing there.
Got a busy few months coming up for gigs, nuptual's (did I spell that right?) and of course prior to that the STAG do....should be a larrf, hopefully they don't tie me up somewhere naked, not sure the public need to be seeing my impersonation of chewbacca!!
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Embrace the Roar....phase2 |
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By gibbo on
8/29/2007 6:04 PM
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Not much more I can add to Malcolm's synopsis of the weekend. Both gigs were great. The Weardale is a great venue, the crowd are mint and the man in charge is really nice bloke with nothing but complimentary things to say about the band, thoroughly enjoyed the night, as did the audience by all accounts...hopefully we'll see some of them again next time...or better still....on Saturday in the Masons (Middlestone Moor).
The 3 Tuns was a first time for us and was also a really enjoyable gig as far as performance and audience response goes. The room was a really good shape for sound too. Thanks to Dean for booking us. Maybe next time we'll get to play in the massive beer garden!
Well I'll keep it short and sweet, as I need to get sorted for practise tonight round Low Spennymoor Club....hopefully we won't get any 'White star fuelled helmets' shouting abuse at us f ...
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Embracing the growl...oh and snapping another bloomin string |
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By mal on
28 August 2007
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It's funny you know, everyone tells me I play the guitar a bit too hard...what with snapping a string every other gig!! It's always the same guage string and I thought the disease was confined to my telecaster....it now seems to have infected the Les Paul too.....half way through Show me the way and it snapped. Oh well, can't complain, just seems to be the way of things at the mo!!
Anyway, played two good gigs this weekend, the Weardale in Spennymoor and the 3 tuns in Coundon.
The Weardale - thoroughly enjoyed this one apart from my sound, thought i'd give the marshall a run out...much to my dissmay and Waynes delight, the distortion sounded like a chainsaw with blunt teeth...loadsa work needed to achieve a better sound if it's to be used live again (note - Neil hates it when we introduce new gear just before a gig.. lol, quite right too on the evidence of Saturday night!!)
My ability to sound like scooby doo when we play 500 miles is bec ...
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Peurto de la Cruz to Peurto de la Crook |
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By mal on
07 August 2007
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Flippin hell, what a busy few days. Finally got back home at 10pm on Friday having been bumped off the flight from Tenerife and having to fly via Bristol of all places. Not a nice airport inthe slightest!!!
The Shoe -
Well having forgotten that Wayne had ordered the lights I don't think my comment of "what the f**k you got them for" went down very well..oops!! Apart from the dry ice completely knacking up my voice I was quite impressed with the lights!! Even had strobe lights while doing paranoid (I nearly fell ower after me headbanging bit!!). Setting up was more hectic and sweatier than usual, I think it must have affected Gibbos internal workings as his ability to produce a 5-a-day smelling guff was enhanced.
Thanks to Dave for all his good comments and for coming to do the recording...hope me voice wasn't too bad!!
Vane Arms -
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By Paul on
8/6/2007 9:08 PM
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a pretty busy weekend for the band this weekend just gone,saturday night we were at the shoe in crook and as gibbo has already pointed out we were under a little bit of pressure as the gig was been recorded but as always at the shoe the atmosphere was great and i think we put on a pretty good show,in fact dave who was doing the recording said we were up there with the best bands he had ever recorded! praise like that from a guy who obviousley knows his stuff means a hell of a lot to us. cant wait to hear the finished cd. must mention the light show to,as i had already finished setting my drums up i sat back and watched the hired lighting crew put up a lighting rig that wouldn't have looked out of place at a pink floyd gig,but fair play they looked absolutley spot on when the gig started. so on to sunday at the vane arms,i never know what to make of this place when we play there sometimes its chocka bloc and everyone's into it then sometimes its pretty quiet and no one seems that bothered about a band playing, ...
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By gibbo on
8/5/2007 4:04 PM
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As ever, a smashing night in the Olde Horseshoe in Crook. However, we were very self conscious in terms of how we played due to the fact the whole gig was being recorded......I for one was a little tense...and...made a few mistakes I think...he he he, but as a whole I think we did alright. Good news is, at least we'll have some CD's for anybody wishing to hear us.
The gig was very elaborate in that we had a sub contracted light crew for the night....by all accounts it looked excellent. Many thanks to the lads in charge of that.
I would also like to thank Dave (I'm sure that was his name) who recorded the gig for us, he was very professional, cooperative and a top bloke who knew his stuff, really looking forward to hearing the finished product and subsequently working with him again when the ...
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