well its been a few days since our annual event, skipapalooza
at orleans in newmarket and how can we sum it up other than AWESOME!
we brought out the ol’ disco ball for added visual deeelite. so far in the few pics we’ve seen, the ball looks amazing!
drumming for rosalita& sounding not loud proved to be quite the struggle despite our best of intentions. sorry to any1 we annoyed! live&learn. onwards&upwards. our longest set ever in the books!
those handsome hooligans showed no rust from the 4 month baby break and played pretty much from 1030-215 excluding 2×5 minute breaks. we were all anxious to play indeed!
just a quick post to review last weekend’s gig with Molly’s Chamber at the Eton House. 3 sets of rockin good times! we had a soundperson but he didn’t do much other than run our mics thru the house PA which was a bit different than the norm. folks said the sound wasn’t horrible and u could hear everything but not up to snuff for a gig with a soundperson. despite not hearing much of the vocals and lead geetar while onstage(no monitors), we’d give ourselves a B for the overall performance. getting more comfortable with the material is a high priority and there is lots of room to improve. speaking of room, we were on a stage with a railing and we kept hitting our headstock on the pole at the end of the railing during the show. yet another reason to not gig with your best bass. poor EB3 took a beating but luckily no scars the next morning! thx 2 all who came out to witness and the props. we sure had fun and totally dug the overall vibe of the joint!
both the bands released some video evidence this week.
enjoy and will blog soon! finally a weekend off from gigs and a load of songs to learn from the likes of OLP, Velvet Revolver, Foo, Van Morrision, Hip, big wreck, coldplay, black keys, steve earle, doors & more! lots of jams til the end of the month. let the good times roll!
just a quick review on how the halloween bash went.
costume wise we decided to go with the snake skin pants, teased hair and cut off tee look. kind of a metalhead look. many ppl thought we should add the pants to the regular gig rotation. hmmm…. something to think about! but the costume served its purpose and was quite nice to bash our head around with.
other bands opted for dracula, zombie, jester, doctor, army looks. many said after the sets they were way too hot. duly noted for next year!
anyways, we’ve been bashing our brains out trying to figure out what to wear. its our first time playing in a costume. its gotta be something that won’t interfer with our playing/groovin’ and also something that won’t have us dripping wet with sweat after one song. as of this moment, we are still totally undecided. our skin tight leopard pants may be a part of the answer but it looks as though it will be coming down to a game time decision. or perhaps we will just dressup as a musician for a change? like one of these? ha! stay tuned for the answer next week. if anyone out there has any ideas, we are all ears!
actually speaking of frets, we cleaned up our eb3 bass the other day only to notice one of the frets we never touch has a rust spot! too funny! good thing we never touch it there! curious as to when/how/why it happened?
anyways, here’s the recent bass scoop in short order:
1. we’ve left the reggae band toonice. that not to say we’ll never play a show again with them but our days as a regular member are over. a tough decision but one soundly made with the present and future in mind.
2. those handsome hooligans are playing 2 shows this month! one just happened this past weekend at Orleans in Newmarket and another is a very special halloween dressup affair on sat. oct. 29th at the Jamspot in Newmarket. very exciting times indeed! omg, what to dressup as on the 29th??? our oct. 1st show was a sweet mix of jaw dropping jaw droppers, dancefloor filling dancefloor fillers and epic epics! ppl hooted and danced and good reviews all round. looking fwd to more hooligasms in the near future!
3. we’ve joined toronto cover band, mollys chamber! we debut with them on oct 15th at the black cat in toronto! very, very exciting! great group with great songs! we are giving it our all to be ready to hit the ground running and jumping in time for our debut!
bonus: here’s a video of a solo hooligan warming up the crowd this past saturday with an acoustic version of chalk circle’s “sons&daughters” which is sooooooooo appropriate since we were supposed to go see chalk circle play that night until we got booked to play instead! enjoy!
