Stormcellar at Pendle inn Sat July 17 and Bald Rock Hotel Sunday July 18
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Bald Rock Gig Report - go back jack and do it again
People were out, still in football fever mode (Theo's over the moon about Hollands performance) and what i thought was going to be a quiet evening turned into a long, late and jumping one. Thanks to our visitors from Wagga and some familiar faces, we played until close to midnight from an 8pm start, including (I counted) a 20 minute boogie.
Now the 'boogie' (official name, 'over yonder') have been steadily lengthening - Paul wants to top 25 minutes for a single song. Insane? yes! Fun? Definitely.
Cheers to Happy, Lisa and her blonde twin, Darren, Flossy, Jude, Lee and the G Man and everyone from last night. The boys were still recovering from their cumnock adventure, but they were able to get back up and do it all again, including the new material, which is starting to settle in quite nicely.
Rosie was simply on fire last night and I think he hit everything he aimed at. Repo has started explaining to the audience how to do a sing along and everything fell into place. In a bizarre, inexplicable brain function, I've memorised all the new lyrics. I brought my trusty falling-apart lyrics folder with me, with everything written out in BIG easy to read font (what point size is handwriting? hmm) and found I didnt need it. I am not sure how my brain cleared out space to fit new lyrics in, probably at the expense of something I'd previously know, such as how to pull up my pants or something.
Performance and vibe wise, I'd rate last nights gig as Officially Approved (from now on, that's how you drive!) - it will be interesting to see if we remain as cohesive as we head into the next weekends worth of gigs, or whether that was just one of those good vibe nights. We'll see.
Oh and if you want to see, come to the Pendle Inn or the Bald Faced Stag next weekend and see how we're doing!
1st playback from location recording? How'd we do?
The recordings from the first day (tuesday) weren't saved, so that only leaves recordings from Wed/Thurs and Friday. Shouldn't be too many? Right?
55 takes. 55 takes in three days. Yikes.
IMHO everything except Snowy's song and the acoustic version of Same Old Blues are OK. Snowy sounds like the vocals are pushing too hard (too high for my register), so not sure what to do about that. Same Old Blues will be better electric than acoustic, but it was worth a shot.
The stand out recordings for me so far are Rest My Bones and The Way She Smiles. You can hear the rain falling during Rest My Bones - it's eerie. So now we have to have to obligatory discussion about which takes are the takes.
Over the next few weeks we'll be adding any overdubs and harmonies, then who knows what we'll do with it. As a (truly) independent outfit, no one is hollering at us to finish the project and we've already released 1 album this year. How keen can ya get?
Hmm....I think we're still planning on starting the next album this year anyway. Ok. It's official. We're keen.
Carls Chair Report - MJEB report part 2
That last blog took so long I had to leave a day in between parts, so without further ado, here's the rest of the week in pics from my cam.
The G Man re-setting for the day - note the unusual piece of recording equipment scavenged from the Royal. A patio heater!
Stormcellar at the Bald Rock Hotel Balmain, This Saturday Night 10 July, 8pm free
Carls Chair Report - MJEB Report - Part 1
Carl, Chair and Marsupial.
What a heck of a week. Read on for pics and Vids from the Carls Chair Project. There will be further blogs from the other guys but here's what I captured during the week (and some random stuff, you know, the usual)