Delayed Gig Review.

Sorry this has taken so long, it's just been difficult to get around to it!

The gig on Sunday, in basic terms, went ace. A bit of trouble with my kit (One of my tom mounts managed to thread a screw and it all fell apart) and a bit of rudeness from certain people didn't tarnish it one bit. I was on gear duty, of course, and I managed to fit ALL the gear and a drummer in my car, the drums in the boot and the guitars and amps on the back seat. I changed the front head of my bass drum before we set it up, which may not have been a good idea, it

 sounded awful! I think it was because the skin I used was a batter head, it rang too much and had a horrible tone. I managed to fix it by pushing the towel against it more, and by tightening it. From what I could hear when Will was sound checking. For some reason though, when the next band sound checked it sounded horrible again. I blame the drummer, he criticised my kit when I went up to fix the sound of the bass drum. I didn't much like this and may have been rather rude to him for the rest of the night.

Here's a video of Will sound checking my kit:

The wait from sound check to our actual set was around five hours but it went very quickly, I think the excitement was building, before I knew it the last band was on their last song and we were up next. Awesome. I love that bit! The host introduced us, spoke about our CD and we walked on, big time! I can't wait to be walking on infront of thousands, I won't be happy till that has happened in my life.

We played a blinder of a set! I felt the crowd were hooked from beginning to end, a really well planned set I think. Here's the set list:

You Didn't Let Me Know

Jennifer

Deciduous

I Wouldn't Move To London For You

I Believe In You

Dissever

Feeling Sore

You Break My Heart Everyday

Easily Led

One Up On Me

Walk Home

Walk home was an epic ender again. I love that song. And so did my mates from Five Aces Black apparently. The were asking if it was on the EP after they bought it.... I had to tell them it's not... never mind. I told them it'll be on the next one! 

The highlights for me have to be the new ones, especially Dissever, I managed to keep on track all the way through them! I'm rubbish with new songs. One Up and Walk Home were also great, I love the ending of Walk Home, it's just a big jam for as long as we want, and a great finish!

We got home rather late, of course, and I was dead. For some reason my legs really sodding hurt! It felt like I'd been running for hours! I guess it was all that dancing like an idiot.

Anyway, I'm led to believe that the set was filmed, pretty much in it's entirety. I'm really looking forward to seeing it, I'll post a couple of the best tunes up when I've got them. for now you'll have to do with the pictures. (see more on Facebook).

I tried to set up Geoff's Ludwig kit on Tuesday, with minimal success. I don't have all the hardwear I need, I've got no tom mounts at all, or the legs for the floor tom. This is quite annoying, I was looking forward to playing it, knowing Geoff it will be tuned to perfection. I'd love to record it. I really want a studio, set up all the time so you can just walk in and record what's on your mind. I find all this Guitar Pro writting I do really stagnant, it doesn't inspire me at all. I need to record my tracks properly. I'd be able to do something if I had Cubase but I think Jof's lost it :-o Nevermind, it'll show up. Probably in a CD case at home.

Last minuite reminder, we have a gig tonight at Deja Vu in Reading. I think we're on first but we get a long set if we're popular. I'm looking forward to it. It's just what I need after Sunday's success, a little booster to keep the gig feeling going a little longer! Hopefully with our new EP (www.myspace.com/johnnyarrow) we'll be able to get more gigs.

See you soon :-)