The River Rooms, Stoubridge, England

28th Jan 2011

We are busy Green Head's this week and we are here to entertain you (rather like "Some like it hot" but without the camp and casual racism). Anyway, back to back gig here - this time at the River Rooms in Stourbridge, an excellent custom built circuit gig facility as you can see above.

Early load in time again, this is going against the international GMT for load-ins, 19:00 for pubs and 15:30 for touring bands. We had neither of these, 17:30 was our load in. Cold day too, by the time we had finished the sound check and I nipped off for some tea ice had formed on the car.

Load in was nice, and sound check was easy going - I love it when that happens. Craig the sound guy gets from strolling around with cables to getting a good working sound very efficiently making the sound check more enjoyable.

Ron and I turned up first and setup

Ron and I were bang on time, other band members had other commitments but this I think worked to our favour as we were able to stagger the get in and get on the stage allowing Canadian Dave to setup last in a fraction of the usual time as we were on hand to help him.

The bass player arrives!

Sound check went well and before we knew it we had a good sound that we could work with. Blobby lights were all setup too, all by 19:30.

Sound check complete, now we wait!

Except there was more to this picture. After the sound check I put flyer's on all of the tables advertising our gig at the Robin2 (did I tell you....) as well as our return dates at the River Rooms and other gigs. Then it was up into the gallery to talk to the lighting guy Tim (lovely fellow) to discuss some of the images and artwork that Canadian Dave had created and sent to him earlier on in the week, a conversation about our new walk on and walk off music that Canadian Dave had also created for us especially for this gig and thereafter, a discussion about how Ron likes his bass drum to sound and finally to setup microphones and video recording equipment to attempt to catch the band live and in concert (which we did!!)

Then we could rest...

The view from the backstage area

The gig happened. The walk on music was a success (youtube Will help you there) and the band were tight and yet confident enough to be as loose as was required in order to give the audience the unique show that they deserved. May people came and many people danced..

...and a good time was had by all, including a stage invasion by 5 women dancers all dressed in 60's psychedelic clothes which although was deemed a Health and Safety issue (public liability I guess) we really enjoyed it!

Two hours and twenty minutes of music followed and we retired broken into the dressing room. What a really great gig, I cannot thank you all enough for coming and supporting live music.

Slight break in February to gather our thoughts and then an assault of your senses all the way into June!!

See www.greenheadman.com for details of our upcoming events.

See you soon,

Nick