The Second Gig

Well as you may have seen by the video, the second gig went down really well. I managed to stay in tune for most of it and even managed a new song and one I had avoided doing coz I wasn't comfortable with it at the first gig. I am really enjoying doing this acoustic guitar lark and finding it quite liberating from being in a band. Since the last gig I had aquired a Chorus pedal with the intent of trying it out - After hearing what it sounded like I think I will be having it on premanently at every gig from now on - it altered my sound  entirely - it was awesome, well haopy with it

I went up to the Birds Nest with Kaya from Decadent Few who had agreed to drive up despite not playing due to an illness in the band. Not wanting to cancel the gig or let anyone down who turned up expecting Decadent Few, Myself, Kaya, Bruce from Mindframe and their drummer did an impromptu three songs at the end with me borrowing Mindframes guitar. Myself and Kaya had had one rehearsal acoustically of all three songs earlier in the week but to do it with an unrehearsed rhythm section was going to be weird - especially as I had met neither of them before. We ploughed thru Power & The Glory (an old Youth In Asia song) something called "In Chains" which was a bit of acoustic blues we had thrown together and "They Shoot Children" (Decadent Few song) in rapid succesion and I was amazed at the response. It was recorded and although I haven't heard it, I have been told by Kaya (who has) that it is rather good - soon as I hear it I will let you know.

Set List:
1. You're A Terrorist
2. Still Called Scum
3. R.I.P (Riot In Progress)
4. Go Back To Sleep
5. Race To The Bottom
6. Pissing In The Wind
7. Generation iDiot
8. Question Authority

2nd Set list - With Kaya Decadent & Mindframe
1. Power & The Glory
2. In Chains
3. They Shoot Children Don't They

I actually stopped playing during the last song of my own set as I was laughing so much at one bloke who threw himself on the floor and was shaking like mad, so much so that he knocked a burger off of a plate and onto the floor where he stopped, picked it up and ate it. I was in hysterics, stareted the song where I left off finished and went for a beer. No encore this time but I didnt care as I had had such a great night and the two other bands Bucha Effect & Mindframe were excellent - both well worth seeing.

The Welsh Tart took a few pictures as welll as the video of Generation iDiot from the previous post and a good night was had by all, unfortunately no photos of the 2nd set as I forgot to give The Welsh one her camera - bugger. Too much waffle for this post - I will post the song I was going to in the next post.