https://www.progforums.com/punforum Prog-Sphere forums en http://backend.userland.com/rss https://www.progforums.com/punforum/viewtopic.php?pid=470#p470 470@https://www.progforums.com/punforum Topic: MANNING - the debut gig for the CRS Message: We have no one close to the band who can fulfil that role currently, sadly Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:32 +0100 https://www.progforums.com/punforum/viewtopic.php?pid=469#p469 469@https://www.progforums.com/punforum Topic: MANNING - the debut gig for the CRS Message: Sounds like it was a good start!re the stage mix - take your own engineer next time ;) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:53:55 +0100 https://www.progforums.com/punforum/viewtopic.php?pid=468#p468 468@https://www.progforums.com/punforum Topic: MANNING - the debut gig for the CRS Message: There has not been much reported as yet about our debut on Saturday so I thought I would offer some musingsThe Wesley Arts Centre is a new venue to me. It is an intimate small hall with banked seating at the back. The PA Crew hired for the event did a fantastic professional job and the sound out front was apparantly superb throughout. On stage (from discussion after) we could have got a slightly better mix (espcially for Dave the drummer), but it was still pretty goodI will not spoil future shows by running through a complete set list, but suffice to say, most of my ten albums were represented by the 2 hour electric set.The band were in great humour and really in the mood for it. Although there were some slight issues during the performance, they held it all together brilliantly.My material features a wide balance of differing moods, instrumentation & light & shade, so the challenge LIVE, is to see how much of this transfers to that setting. In this case, I think the set running order and chosen material worked very well. We learned a few lessons and so will adjust in places for the PEEL show in June and the Cambridge Rock Fest appearance.The audience were vocal and supportive and genuinely made us feel that we deserved our encore! As someone said to me last night (at the band meeting), all we have to do now is to learn to take that applause and praise without feeling embarrassment! We worked bloody hard and we deserved it!The band are working extremely well as a unit and we have all taken on aspects of its continued running activities. We want to play more gigs, we want to play to bigger audiences, but this takes time (Promoters please note!) but there is no doubt in my mind though that this new line-up is capable of great things.Watch this space!See you at the PEEL!!! (June 6th)Guy Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:55:02 +0100