Sunday, March 21, 2010

Post-mortem evidence

Video of the gig is now up on Youtube, so you can make your own judgements.
Due to camera limitations, the set had to be videoed one songs at a time, so you miss out some interesting bits between songs, such as where I take five attempts to get a capo on the second fret of my guitar.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Gig post-mortem

We played BC Unplugged at the Wanch last night. Good gig, and a lot of fun. We had some issues with it being acoustic - we had to drop half our songs for one thing, and playing lots of barre chords on an acoustic knackers my wrist.

The new songs were pretty good. Of the two, Liquidator works well, but we shouldn't have played it second, as it sounded too similar to Guerrero, the opener. The electric version should be more distinctive, anyway. A decent first outing for that one.
Sun Coming Up is a more upbeat tune but was basically just filler. With no breaks in the chord progression it doesn't really go anywhere. Needs work if we're going to use it again.

Notable triumphs: Walk This Earth is top stuff unplugged, becoming 'jaunty' rather than 'early Metallica-y', which is nice. Might play the electric version more like this in future.
Guns of Brixton was popular, plenty of people singing along. We still had difficulty ending the bloody thing but hey. China Girl was more of a niche hit (none of the singalongers knew all the words), and I think we played it a bit too slowly, plus I didn't sing it as well as I did in practice. Top bass line, though, and everyone loved Ben's upright bass no matter what he was playing.

Great reaction, as expected for Luka's Dream as the encore, a retooled Chas & Dave cover, which I'd promised to play if 'enough' Spurs fans turned up. Six or seven was enough, I determined. Common People was also well received although I stuffed up the chords in the middle again.

Cloud in the Stars was merely OK; I think this was to do with its placement in the running order, too slow after the first two numbers. Green Hat Man ("And now we'll lighten the mood with a song about multiple homicide!") got its usual reaction of applause, slightly stunned expressions, and the audience appearing to edge slightly away from me.

Good gig. Would play BC Unplugged again, but with a bit of refinement on the playlist. In fairness, we did only have two acoustic-only rehearsals, and the shambolicity is part of the charm, or so we keep claiming.