Yo, Rob here again.

So yesterday I sat down to have an inital listen to the other night’s recordings. Pretty happy with the work we did and the show we put on. Ahead lay the task of separating the audio tracks from the night, cleaning them up to mix them into the final product. This is something I have always enjoyed doing and after producing various music over the years the appeal never seems to die. Spending probably 8 hours in total the tracks came together pretty well considering the limited gear we were using for recording on the night. The kick drum sound and the guitar needed the most work but came out well in the end. It’s sounding fairly tight and yet captures the feeling of the venue and the crowd so i’m pleased. Hope you all enjoy the final video )…

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Jay here. As all the other guys have put a post up concerning our gig, I thought I’d better do one as well. Now that’s out of the way, I’m gonna check out the rest of the photos.

I did say I was lazy.

Peace Y’all

P.S. – Keep your ears and eyes firmly fixed on this space because there should be audio and video of our gig popping up here real soon.

Hello all, I thought since Rob and Ben had written posts, that I might as well shed some light on what happened when Ben and I collected the speakers.  Once we got to Jay’s parents house and started setting up, Ben and I decided to go back to my house to collect my party speakers which both have 15″ woofers .  I grabbed the first speaker and moved it back to clean out some of the leaves and stuff and Ben noticed something unusual.  Inside the mid range horn was a medium sized huntsman.  Well, I am rather afraid of spiders, so of course I jumped back with a fright, not wanting to be anywhere near the bloody thing.  We then found out that I had no fly spray to kill the spider.  Ben thought of the great idea of grabbing a stick and flicking it out onto the ground.  I agreed, but also said that Ben might have to step on it quick.  It turns out that Ben is afraid of spiders but not as much as I, and that he could poke it with a stick but not step on it.  What was the first thing the huntsman did when it landed on the ground, well, it got scared so it decided to hide.  It went straight into the ventilation ports of the speaker didn’t it.  I thought “that’s it, it’s not going in my car, that bloody huntsman will be running round in my car and I can’t have that”.  So I rang Rob and said that I would be bringing different speakers.  Rob wouldn’t have any of that, and just told me to cover the ports.  I thought stuff that, and started thinking of ways to get it to Jay’s house.  In the end I got Ben to move the speakers on to the trailer (that’s right, I couldn’t even carry the speakers, as I feared that the spider would come out and run all over me.), however Ben also asked me to watch the front of the speaker in case the spider came out and did the exact thing I was afraid of.  Finally we got the speakers to Jay’s house via trailer and my parents car.  We never did see the spider again, but I think it might of had a heart attack or something because the amount of bass that we pumped through those speakers was enormous.

Bang Your Head 

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After over 2 months of rehearsal and a day of setup, we played for half an hour and now it’s over. Funny how that works, hey? It went pretty well, even if the crowd wasn’t quite what we had expected (more oldies than expected, hah). Our Doors cover went down well and we were even requested to play it again once our set had finished.

The boys played extremely well, having watched back the video though I’m a bit disappointed with my singing. I pushed out too hard in the first few songs, which resulted in me breaking a few notes in the last half of the set and there’s definitely a few flat notes in there too. Oh well, we’re always most critical of ourselves, I’ll just have to keep up the practise.

Now that THE GIG is over, we’ll be going back to writing new songs, which will be a nice change. I don’t think we’ll try to organise any more live performances this year, we’ll wait until we’ve got a larger set of songs to choose from. This whole experience was great though, and now that we’ve got our first performance done, the next ones will be a lot easier.

Here are a bunch of photos from the day, video and sound are being edited and will be up soon.

Guitar Solo

2 hours into the 5 hour setup

Is that cymbal straight?

We need more electrical tape!

About to start…

We are such rockstars.

Nervous yet, Trevor?

Rock’n out

Banging on the kit

A Job Well Done

Who’s To Blame?

Calm and Collected and Ready to Rock