Busy weekend!

The Robin 2, Bilston

27th Jan 2011

Hello hello, how are you today? Good. Its been a busy weekend in Green Head Land having as we have two gigs back to back. An enjoyable one too.

We started off on Thursday with a support slot at the Robin 2 in Bilston. We are not really a support band in as much as we do not do it and haven't done it as a unit since the current line up of Green Head Man was formed. This gig represented a chance to let the owner see and hear us ahead of our headline there in April (did I mention we are playing on the 27th? I did? oh).

This being the case we had forgotten the woes of a hard working support band and arrived dutifully, on time as per contract, for our get in and setup. Par for the course of course the headline band had not even fully arrived as the clocks ticked on 10 minutes after we were supposed to soundcheck.

There *were* doing however an amazing three piece Jazz set that you really had to be there to believe!

Nik Turner Jazz - Nice!

They were great of course - Space Ritual - what a lovely bunch of people. Nik Turner made a concerted effort to get soundchecked and off the stage to let us do our noise check before 7:30 when the doors open. We managed it, in fact we got on stage, setup and soundchecked in 15 minutes which is quite a record! This hit our guitarist the hardest as he has a lot of gear to setup and check on a regular basis (as he also plays his space guitar via a Juno60 synth).

Actually we had brought our cutdown equipment to this venue and I was pleased that we had. We lost the acoustic guitar, didgeridoo and piano for fear of lack of space. It was a real fear!

Soundcheck over, just in time!

The doors opened and the room filled up. By the time we went on stage at around 20:15 there must have been 350 nice people in the room and the atmosphere was great. We had to hit the stage running, a half hour set doesn't give you much time to get into the groove That said I think we pulled it off, there was plenty of positive ad libbing and we ensured that we played the majority of our original songs to a largely appreciative audience who clapped and cheered. Thank you.

Then as soon as it had started we were off again, unpack straight away. Do not pass go, do not leave the stage for a breather and out to the stage door exit.

an enjoyable if rushed experience but hopefully we were able to give Space Ritual's audience a snapshot of what we were able to achieve and that was job done.

Next step was our own headline the day after at the River Rooms in Stourbridge.

Nick