The songs of Scott Walker are coming to the Barbican centre in November
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In true Scott style, he won't be performing himself since he is famously reclusive and spotlight shy but this promises to be a great evening of entertainment.
See here for my summation of this great man.
A
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Showing posts with label gigs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gigs. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
How Not to end a gig...
So you've had a fairly bad gig... the band were good, but you felt shit and useless and hot and bothered, making stupid errors and you can't wait for it to be over.
You decide to go for a wander on wireless and turn to the band and jump up and down to show the tempo change, only to jump back and trip on a stone fountain and smash into it, scraping up your guitar and soaking yourself.
At least noone turned up to the gig, but I did get some bloke pissing himself at my expense with his 5 year old son.
Feel sorry for me!
Or laugh, which is more likely.
A
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You decide to go for a wander on wireless and turn to the band and jump up and down to show the tempo change, only to jump back and trip on a stone fountain and smash into it, scraping up your guitar and soaking yourself.
At least noone turned up to the gig, but I did get some bloke pissing himself at my expense with his 5 year old son.
Feel sorry for me!
Or laugh, which is more likely.
A
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
ANother Weekend Another Gig
Its at our old friends from Alpha Garden centres new digs.. near enfield I think...
This is an outdoor gig and in my experience in this field (golly.. five years odd in various cover bands) I have found there to be a certain amount of "suckitude" sometimes in these shows that basically can act as an irritant to people who just wanted to come and buy some plants. Little audience response leads to low band energy and "whoops" it's all over the place. A pitfall a certain amount of banter can avoid if you're in a good social place with the others in the group.
On the other hand, it is possible sometimes to get great things out of these situations and amongst them are new leads, gigs and even (shhh!) fans of the band. A large selection of CDs and promos will come in handy always at this sort of thing, as will a willing frontman who'll plug us to his hearts content. Guess that'll be me this time. Again...
Heh, I love the attention, really.
Rock on, Algolians!
A
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This is an outdoor gig and in my experience in this field (golly.. five years odd in various cover bands) I have found there to be a certain amount of "suckitude" sometimes in these shows that basically can act as an irritant to people who just wanted to come and buy some plants. Little audience response leads to low band energy and "whoops" it's all over the place. A pitfall a certain amount of banter can avoid if you're in a good social place with the others in the group.
On the other hand, it is possible sometimes to get great things out of these situations and amongst them are new leads, gigs and even (shhh!) fans of the band. A large selection of CDs and promos will come in handy always at this sort of thing, as will a willing frontman who'll plug us to his hearts content. Guess that'll be me this time. Again...
Heh, I love the attention, really.
Rock on, Algolians!
A
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Songs in other songs
SWEAR ALERT!
Tomorrow is another gig for the VW Combi van folks... be interesting ot see how many different kinds I see I reckon.
I hope I see some pimped out ones - Westwood style! Bam!
My personal favourite way of keeping the material we do fresh is by sticking other lyrics in the middle of songs. Most prevalently in the Robbie Williams song, Tripping, where I always refuse to do the Robbie Rap because it is shit. Just shit.
So I have done a different song a-capella in that little break every time, the following were some of the best:
What are your favourite ideas for this sort of thing? Let me know and they may be coming to a stage near you soon!
A
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Tomorrow is another gig for the VW Combi van folks... be interesting ot see how many different kinds I see I reckon.
I hope I see some pimped out ones - Westwood style! Bam!
My personal favourite way of keeping the material we do fresh is by sticking other lyrics in the middle of songs. Most prevalently in the Robbie Williams song, Tripping, where I always refuse to do the Robbie Rap because it is shit. Just shit.
So I have done a different song a-capella in that little break every time, the following were some of the best:
- The Hiphopapotamous vs. The Rhymenoceros - Flight of the Conchords
- You should be dancing - Bee Gees
- Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
- Good Times - Chic
- Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
- Kiss - Tom Jones
What are your favourite ideas for this sort of thing? Let me know and they may be coming to a stage near you soon!
A
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Sundays gigs - boys toys in chelmsford.
They went very well thanks...
First up was Boy Who and I think we did very well for a first Gig together despite a couple of problems with on stage sound for the drummer. The first song we wrote together went well ("while others sleep") which is very gratifying. The video below is of the Matt Burgess (on acoustic guitar and lead vocals) penned "into tomorrow". The rest of Boy who are Dave on Guitar and Jim on Drums.
Second performance of the day (!) was with King Khamun, those Chelmsford gods of funk rock as deputy bass player for the day and am pleased to say it went very well indeed.
Very short clip from "What did you do to my hair" off their forthcoming second album.
Check my bass playing!
I learnt my lessons from Bootsy well. Downside is having folks coming up and saying how great the band was and me admitting I'm just depping. Most uncool since I have to go back to trying to write my own stuff rather than nicking glory off others. Annoying.
A
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First up was Boy Who and I think we did very well for a first Gig together despite a couple of problems with on stage sound for the drummer. The first song we wrote together went well ("while others sleep") which is very gratifying. The video below is of the Matt Burgess (on acoustic guitar and lead vocals) penned "into tomorrow". The rest of Boy who are Dave on Guitar and Jim on Drums.
Second performance of the day (!) was with King Khamun, those Chelmsford gods of funk rock as deputy bass player for the day and am pleased to say it went very well indeed.
Very short clip from "What did you do to my hair" off their forthcoming second album.
Check my bass playing!
I learnt my lessons from Bootsy well. Downside is having folks coming up and saying how great the band was and me admitting I'm just depping. Most uncool since I have to go back to trying to write my own stuff rather than nicking glory off others. Annoying.
A
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