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Welcome to our gig blog. We’ll try and
update this section regularly with the latest news on gig played recently…. Colchester
Arts Centre, Fuzzface/Hobo Chang/Kerry Leatham, 9 Feb 2006
Another great
night for live music in Colchester. We had the opportunity of playing with
other local artists. Kerry Leatham started the evening off with a great set of
well written tunes and some fantastic guitar playing, incidentally last time
we played with Kerry (pardon the pun) was summer last year at Vagabonds
(sadly is no more a venue for live music). You can check out some off Kerry’s
tunes here.
Up next were us,
we always look forward to playing the Arts Centre as more often than not
Chris Secker does the sound. Chris is rare thing in that he is a sound man
who knows his stuff, and can pull great sounds out of knowhere. It makes a
change to actually hear stuff coming through monitors. Had a chance to play a
few new tunes and the 45mins was over as always too quickly. Funny that you
spend ages in rehearsals with it seems like endless time left, then the minute
you get on stage an hour feels like five minutes.
Fuzzface rounded
off the evening with a great set
promoting their new single and DVD, both available at www.fuzzface.co.uk. Overall a top evening with a GREAT VIBE and packed out venue. Thanks
again to everyone that bought CDs and t-shirts, we really do appreciate it..........
Club Crumpet, Wivenhoe Football Club, 4
November 2005 Its always a pleasure to play Club Crumpet.
Wivenhoe Football Club is a brilliant venue for live bands, the acoustics are
great, the bar’s cheap and with an entrance fee that doesn’t hurt the wallet. The evenings events kicked off with DJ Nem
(who plays a mixture of dub reggae soul funk). DJ Nem’s a fantastic DJ, and
you can often catch her doing a residency somewhere in Colchester. Next up
were Jellybag fronted by Keith Godwin. A great live band, their sound a
crossbreed of blues, rock with more than a nod to Frank Zappa, Jellybag
played an excellent set and are really worth catching if you see them playing
anywhere. Then came the Hobo set, which included a
few new tunes and also featured Mary of Dog Friendly on flute, sax and
backing vocals. Its always scary and exciting doing new tunes, never knowing
quite how they will be received. As all those people in bands will agree,
rehearsal rooms are one thing live performance another. Rehearsal rooms… now
that’s a whole blog just to itself! One of our new tracks (A Heart Disease
Called Love) is a poem by legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke. We
approached him with the idea of writing around the lyrics, he was cool with
it and loved the idea, lets hope he still loves it when he hears it. We tried
out a cover of a James Brown tune, ‘Talkin Loud, Saying Nothing’. As with all
James Brown tracks, great bass and drum lines which kept Sean and Dave
smiling in a worrying sort of way. We also played an early Marley classic
‘reaction’, featuring backing vocals from Mary. It was all over too quickly
as usual, and everyone went home happy sweaty and exhausted
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Would like to say a big thank you to all of
you lot that bought a copy of our new CD, hope you’re enjoying it.. Fiona Halesworth, Gig in the Park, 7 August 2005 Soooooooo first up The Gig In The
Park, Halesworth, The
Selector, The Buzzcocks, Geno Washington… lots of others and us. What a joy to find we would be treading the
same stage as the wonderful Ms Black (a personal favourite of mine).
Alas to say we never got to meet her as The Selector played the day before. We played Sunday mid afternoon with lovely
sunshine, not a bad turnout and a very large stage to bounce about on.
Us humble musicians are not used to the joys of a (Hobo
Chang plus audience & monitors at
The Gig In the Park) Our forty minute set that seemed to
fly. It was good playing to a crowd which had likely never heard of us
before and didn’t know what to expect. We raised a good response from the
audience with even an outbreak of dancing by a few, overall a good day was
had by all. Incidentally we spent the whole day wandering about not realising
there was another huge field with stuff going on in it…. great eh! We decided it would be fun to film the
trials and tribulations of us getting our shit together for the gig. It
is being edited as I type and maybe one day we’ll put it on the site for a
laugh or two or three Would just like to
thank the crew for that day, as always we were dependent on the
generosity of our friends, in particular “I’m just the fucking van driver”
Wendy, thank you for being just that, CP for being calm as usual and the film
and photography crew for that day; Christoff O’Leary and Marie O’Connor. Fiona |
