The Victoria - 18th August 2011

Hosted by: The Acoustimass Project.

In attendance: No Redemption, Paul Heeley, Rain, Thornleaf and Stokey Mark

"We're videoing this tonight".... crikey.. the unflappable Mr James Earnshaw had set up a camera in order to video some "timelapse" of the bands, and another camera to film the audience, in order to do a timelapse montage for everyone's perusal on You Tube! (Good job we were dressed up then!!)

Started the set with "Know" - seemed to be well received by the majority, follwed swiftly by "Fever".. Graeme playing on his 20 something year old bass... sounded good.. For a cheap bass (once upon a time).. it sounds better than some new instruments and lended a nice intonation to the songs.. I like the set up of bass and vocals, its interesting and think it should be an avenue other artists should consider.
Next, after swapping to the holey Takamine six string acoustic, we gave the audience "At Seventeen".. one of the best that we do, imho. Its a song I'm very comfortable in singing.
For the last song in the section we chose to do "Je ne Regrette Rien".. which we right royally messed up... so we went for a second go and managed to squeeze it out, despite some odd moments. Phoenetically learning French songs is all well and good, as is learning classic songs.. but mistakes tend to show like the open wounds on a rubgy players face when they've had a bad tackle.
We put it down to tiredness. This was the third Open Mic we'd done this week and we were fit for nothing really. It showed up our need to practice almost continually and rest adequately too.
It also highlighted our need to get to grips with the other songs we've got on the back burner and our desire to move forward with things too.
In order to be remembered we have to get out there and "do" as equally as spending time rehearsing, writing and the like. If this is to be a success, then we have to make it so!