A lovely summer's day that threatened to be a quiet one as well. A couple of high profiled gigs around the corner, the world cup on, perfect BBQ weather and a 60’s birthday party on up the road. This place should be empty. And at 21:00 is still was. This was going to be a paid rehearsal! And I got a new shirt for this?
We set-up reasonably professionally, Little dave was terminally short of cables as usual (terminally short as usual!) and I think we used every cable we had (even an XLR to XLR with a XLR to female ¼”” converter and a patch lead hanging out of the back of it but... we got it all working and sound checked for around nine.
Little Dave was also terminally hung over bless him, due to an impromptu and completely free bar party that he found himself at the night before. In contrast the summer detox is in full (lack of( flow for Canadian Dave and Timmy who were more cohesive than ever.
The audience came...if you play they will come right? (if you are any good like...) so they came, bless ‘em all. And although it wasn’t packed it was pretty full, and the venue owner was delighted again, as were the audience.
There was a lot of jamming, at one point we got stuck in a loop and couldn’t get out of the song but some quick thinking got the intro riff out there and we were able to bring it to an end.
The setlist was tight, between songs chatter was down to a minimum and seemed to work well and we ploughed thro two good sets including two original Green Head Man numbers which also went down well. As per we ran out of time and had to cut short a requested Pink Floyd song (Lucifer SAM) down to around 7 minutes! Yes, it was a jammy night!
Steve put on some cobs and a pork pie and Kelly sold a CD so all in all not a bad night.
Got in for 01:00 which was good, beer, then bed for 02:-00 (up at 08:30 with kids bouncing on my had – down to earth with a bump)
See you next time
Nick
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