Friday night
Aug. 15th, 2004 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shermaramaIt's a shame Jon couldn't make it, for several reasons. The barman grilled me about the Wool t-shirt, and I got it when they supported L7 ten years ago and he just knows Pete Stahl, but I didn't have the chance inamongst the set-up to talk to him about them any more. I'd also have liked to see Jon's reaction to the first song to start on the jukebox after we came in being Do It by the Pink Fairies. And, just as an afterthought, you understand, it would have been nice had there been more members of the audience than of the band.
Still, Friday was effectively a good stage practice. We also didn't realise we'd be the only band on, so we got to play fifteen songs in two sets including making a shambles of a go at EST that we haven't played at all in months. The sound engineer turned out to be the same excellent woman that did for us at the 12 Bar last ('Hey! I've done you!' she exclaims as she walks in) so even in an awkwardly shaped room with noise restrictions, hideously bright and especially when that empty, with a large mirror helpfully placed next to the sound desk, it sounded good. The promoter felt sorry enough for our efforts (that's not quite true about the audience, there were actually six of them, rising to seven for the last two songs, and not including the bar staff one of whom came round to watch quite a bit, there being bugger-all work to do) to stand us all a pint. I can see how histrionics would have counted this as a disaster. But we're a basically cheerful bunch I think and we played fairly well, we got to try out lots of songs that we've been uncertain if we could do live, we got in a first airing of Expose/Reload, the people were friendly, and the venue is somewhere I'd like to visit again - pleasingly oddly set out, good jukebox, pinball and table football, and most of all an upcoming events list well-stuffed with all sorts of oddities. A single Routemaster at midnight saw us all the way to Victoria in time for the 1am train and everything.
Next on the list is headlining at the Dublin Castle next Sunday night, the 22nd. I have no real ideas how to get any more people to come along, is the problem. Online listings don't seem to help; Organ don't do that any more and DiS have steadfastly refused to do anything about a year's worth of communications, demos, emails. This is an old problem but since promoters seem to be moving us up bills, I suspect on the basis of time, mainly, it's getting more urgent to solve it or they'll stop putting us on at all.
Still, Friday was effectively a good stage practice. We also didn't realise we'd be the only band on, so we got to play fifteen songs in two sets including making a shambles of a go at EST that we haven't played at all in months. The sound engineer turned out to be the same excellent woman that did for us at the 12 Bar last ('Hey! I've done you!' she exclaims as she walks in) so even in an awkwardly shaped room with noise restrictions, hideously bright and especially when that empty, with a large mirror helpfully placed next to the sound desk, it sounded good. The promoter felt sorry enough for our efforts (that's not quite true about the audience, there were actually six of them, rising to seven for the last two songs, and not including the bar staff one of whom came round to watch quite a bit, there being bugger-all work to do) to stand us all a pint. I can see how histrionics would have counted this as a disaster. But we're a basically cheerful bunch I think and we played fairly well, we got to try out lots of songs that we've been uncertain if we could do live, we got in a first airing of Expose/Reload, the people were friendly, and the venue is somewhere I'd like to visit again - pleasingly oddly set out, good jukebox, pinball and table football, and most of all an upcoming events list well-stuffed with all sorts of oddities. A single Routemaster at midnight saw us all the way to Victoria in time for the 1am train and everything.
Next on the list is headlining at the Dublin Castle next Sunday night, the 22nd. I have no real ideas how to get any more people to come along, is the problem. Online listings don't seem to help; Organ don't do that any more and DiS have steadfastly refused to do anything about a year's worth of communications, demos, emails. This is an old problem but since promoters seem to be moving us up bills, I suspect on the basis of time, mainly, it's getting more urgent to solve it or they'll stop putting us on at all.
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Date: 2004-08-16 03:41 am (UTC)