So Mjeb and I both wrote reports for last night's gig ... he got in first, but hey - here's a second point of view!
They say that to see the true colours of a man apply pressure. I venture that the same applies to a band.
The sound-gremlins had us in their sights last night - the electrical doodads were not firing on all cylinders. After much plugging and unplugging and cussin' a phone call to our resident drummer-on-the-mend, Theo, saw him make a couple of calls from his sickbed (or sick-sofa as the case may be) to a friend who was also doing a gig in Newcastle.
Read more: Stockton Gig Report - Out of the Jaws of Chaos!
Howdy folks, on this bright, sunny and very windy afternoon of blogging. We had a great evening at Stockton last night, Terry and his partner started the dancing straight away and it pretty much kept going from there. Hi to our visitors from Gunnedah and big thanks to Pete for saying nice stuff about us in the local magazine(gosh shucks).
As sometimes occurs in ventures such as ours, we had some minor technical hiccups yesterday. We were fielding a Brand New Awesome PA system, including the massive bass bins, latest RCF front of house, oh the glorious sound.
Of course, that's what i would be writing if we'd only had 2 leetle, teeny tiny adapters for the desk. Ye Gods. Suffice to say that a quick phone call to our recovering percussion section Theo, yielded a destination for an emergency dash for our golden roadie, Carl. BIG THANKS to Mike for the loan of the 3 pin adapters and Theo for saving our butts even when he's on the bench.
Read more: Theo saves us from the Bench! Stockton gig report
Its been two months since we recorded the Carls Chair project in Cumnock, and in that time we've split the wav files, listened to the tracks and started separating them out into the ones we think should be mixed.
With the G Man back from O/S, its time to start the cleaning and tweaking. Now that i know better, I'm not going to put a time line on when we can expect to have this next album out, but to be sure, I'll post about it as we do it.
Of course, there's always the artwork to do, so as per usual, we'll try out a few different designs before settling on a final one, and as per usual, dear reader, you are our guinea pigs for testing :-) Thats what the comments button is for!
# Carls Chair Draft Cover V1 - Not sure about the lettering hmmm...
Got a beard? On the Lam? Feeling Rebellious? Want to stick it to the Man?
We're looking for someone to play Ned Kelly in our videoclip for our song 'Last Drinks at Glenrowan'. If you or someone you know could be our Ned, drop us a line (or a rope) and you could win a free ticket to one of our gigs.
Ok, so most of our gigs are free entry, but thats not the point. We'll print up a special ticket for you!
And also maybe buy you a drink.
All right a drink and a copy of our album. Right. Thats where my promotions budget runs out.
Hurrah for the home team! Hurrah for Theo's surgery, which has gone to plan and both arms are still attached!
Reports from the Percussion Health Care department are that Theo has a new Rack Mount, but its not for drums.
Just as fortunate for us, we're pleased to welcome Tony Boyd as Official Deputy Drummer during Theo's convalescence.
Mind you, as Tony's only on loan from Mal Eastick (and as Mals drummer, Mal gets first dibs!), it may take more than one Deputy to fill in for our recovering Sherriff.
I can personally say that Tony has the most tastefully decorated drum kit I have ever seen.
I can also attest to the fact that Mal Eastick has terrific taste in drummers, as Theo was previously, yep, you guessed it, Mal Easticks drummer.