What a day!!
Venue: Denry's Music Bar
Other Acts -Wired, Cheesecake, Arthur Righteous, The Friendly Campaign, Rain, The Deep, The Nanateas, The Clockwork Owls, The Longwave, Giro Junkie, The Seers, Nemo.
Organised in a very short space of time by Sian of Cheesecake, this was an event for Pete Norcott (The Incontinents) as a memorial for Patrice, his lovely lady who had died a mere 12 months previous. The idea was to raise funds for the Cocker and English Springer Spaniel Rescue, which was Patrice's favourite charity.
The day began with a rock/metal band made up of 14/15 year olds!!! Sian turned to me (Sheena) and said, "We've got to follow these guys".. to say they were indcredible was an understatement. The drummer did most of the singing (no mean feat) and musically they put a number of folks to shame! Chatting after we discovered that they were music students, obviously dedicated... Lets see where they end up.. just wish I could remember what they were called!! ... Oh yes.. Wired!!!
Cheescake followed with their usual ecclectic style, a sort of bizarre mix really, but still great! Hampered somewhat by the limitations of the sounddesk and the bass amp lead cutting out.. swiftly dealt with my Graeme, who stepped in to sort it out!
Following Cheesecake was Arthur Righteous, taking things in a more relaxed direction, displaying a really rather nice and somewhat expensive Martin Guitar and Roland Acoustic guitar amp.... Think there were a few jealous eyes in the room, as he played with his usual aplomb!
Picking up Arthur's Guitar, Gaz played alongside fellow bandmate Ian for the newly Acoustic Friendly Campaign... Proving that punky songs can sound great as acoustic numbers.. in fact.. I would say that they sounded better, lovely harmonies too.
Rain (us) were next - Playing rather a number of songs from our songbook, well, no-one told us to get off!!! lol... We took the time to set the PA up ourselves, so think we got a really good sound from it.. all things considered.
We gave way for Leek's finest - The Deep... who are a definate sight for sore eyes. They are a band not to be missed, I said that if John Peel were still alive, then he'd be a big fan... Tehy don't mince words and inspired all the crowd to join in on their seminal track "God is dead, long live Satan"
Unfortunately we had to cut the day short, due to appearing at The Band of the Land Competition 2011 at The Victoria that evening... would have been nice to see the other acts.. Oh well, there's always next year!! lol
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