Any Musicians Here?

Thanks man! I’ll keep working on it I think. I’m enjoying it anyway!

Yes. You totally should do that.

Yes man. More of this!

I felt nervous!

I liked it quaddy, nice and atmospheric. And a little unsettling.

Had a shit day all round. So my fabled dark souls bass is going on!

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~Murdered by a bass guitar~

Got our first gig with this line up and my first gig in well over a year coming up next weekend. We really have only been doing the material for a few weeks and have had time off for a Spinal Tap esque drummer injury. Two rehearsals to go which will be cram city.

Slightly nervous although it’s a small wedding, should be a tame crowd and will be a 200 quid take each to finish the set at 9 (licence condition).

We’re having a dep too on trumpet with some as yet untested sheet music. What could go wrong. Luckily he is a virtuoso, unlike me.

Just treated myself to one of those Mono ‘Tick’ bags that fastens to the front of your gig back (I have a Mono dual electric - superb). Gonna stick stuff like my setlists, sandwiches, flasks, my tie, and my maintenance kit in. Overpriced but what nice stuff isn’t.

Cheers Quaddy.

Not my first rodeo, have been doing it for years on and off with very similar setlists. I’m a bit unique in the band as the only one to get the willies from it though. Generally alright by song 2 or 3 and I have an unspoken agreement with the drummer that he’ll drive me in exchange for lugging the stand bag and drum tech’ing 😂. That generally enables me to have the magic two pints which increases confidence without hitting ability 😂

Extra nerves really because I think we’re a month off being where I’d like it to be. There are also certain songs that I just WILL always fuck up - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, I am looking at you! Thankfully there are plenty of Midnight Hours etc to balance the tricky stuff out.

We’re debuting Never Too Much which I’m excited for - have never had a bassist who could pull it off before.

Cheers, I’ll be Reet. Hope yours goes well. Regarding the rhythm section, I do have to grit my teeth and say PLAY THIS ONE STACCATO a time or two to our basisst. He’s a jazzer by trade so I think he naturally plays very flowing which doesn’t work for some grooves!

The real effect of gig nerves is to reduce my confidence/ability with improvising any lead bits tbh. I’m fine with holding the basic songs down. There was once where we played a charity thing for Bolton Wanderers - was well over a thousand there and that did get me - started to grey out in the first song 😂

Thank fuck I managed to recover from that one.

The last three gigs we did were all really good and good fun to be fair. In fact the last one before our last singer left was my favourite ever.

We appear to share brains.

The best tip I ever heard for being lost was just stop, let the band carry it and come in on a chord that it makes sense to emphasise.

But yeah stuff very much gets in my head and I have songs which are like my nemesis.

I’ll make myself do some home practice this week.

Well that was a bit of alright. It’s bloody hard work gigging isn’t it! Probably the most exercise I’ve had all year!

It was very early and the floor was a bit sparse from about the 60 per cent mark of the first set, but it’s a wedding thing that, people are still milling about and eating and stuff and aren’t drunk enough yet.

I made sure to put some practice in to both the songs I was less confident on and into improv the last couple of days and I think I was quite brave in my playing tonight as a result 😂

Proper nerves beforehand though, it’s always gone by sometime in the second song but when you have to wait and watch the first dance beforehand it’s like waiting for the bloody gallows for me.

We very, very rarely get the full horn section in to practice and it’s always magic when you hear them. We sound checked with Jackie Wilson’s Higher and Higher as the second song and if you know the song well, there’s a horn break in the middle and it was just magic. It will sound really self indulgent but my own band gave me goose bumps in that moment when that part kicked in 😂

We’ve struggled to keep a consistent line up over the last couple of years but the newbies did us proud - we probably pulled this together in about six weeks with life happening and gaps in between. Drummer also broke his elbow a few weeks back!

Anyway here’s our sound check if anybody is interested. I’m on guitar skulking at the back behind the keys player. It may get taken down as it’s a cover.

NB I’ve deleted the more negative post from earlier sorry. No bad vibes tonight.

Thanks sir. Sadly the keys are a bit inaudible here.

Well, I was listening out for guitar at first and only noticed the lack of keys when I wanted to hear the whole mix. Glad it went well though.

Our gig went well too. Had some great lighting going on and all songs went down a treat.

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And me slinking it in the bass corner!

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quadfather

I always want to look at your stuff but I can’t figure it out. The links always take me to some Google app that starts asking for access to my own stuff and won’t let me progress. Am I missing something?

Edit - I figured it out somehow. You have a much better waistline than me 😂

I’ve also found your band’s Insta. Very nice. A bit dreamy/shoegaze/hints of New Order maybe.

Always respect the originals game. Different world. I miss the creativity of making songs instead of just covering them.