Hello, more blogtastic fun for you to read.....
Let's start with 'Nowt Flash' at the Donkey, Leicester on Monday 11th April, This night was a last minute gig put on from a friend of mine. Simon Gliroy host's the night at the the Donkey every Monday, it features house band 'The Moonlight Sinatras' who play all sorts of covers including songs by The Beatles, Rolling Stones and even a very cool take on the single 'Black and Gold' by Sam Sparrow! Along with these guys every week the band invite a host band to fill a slot in the middle of the evening and this is where our role came in.
On Friday 8th April I was travelling to my home in Leicester from Derby when I recieved a Facebook message asking whether the band were avaliable to play on the monday! Luckily, we had a band practise sheduled for that weekend any way so I fortunatley had my Guitar with me, however not by tambourine pedal or bass drum pedal! After checking with the band it turned out that Nick was free however Sean was working late and so just me and Nick would play.
On the monday we arrived at The Donkey at about 9 O'clock when the evening usually kicks off, we sat back and enjoyed a drink whilst watching the Moonlight Sinatras for a while before taking to the stage at around 10. I managed to commandere a tambourine pedal, (quite lucky I'd say don't know many people who use one) and a bass drum pedal and we played for around 30 minutes to a moderately sized crowd. All in all the audience where very appreciative and listened a lot, something that doesn't always happen!
After playing we were approached by Gaz Birtles, who organises the gigs at the Donkey and he asked us whether we were avaliable to play as part of the St Georges Day celebrations at the Chutney Ivy restaurant in Leicester as part of the Song Club. We agreed and that moves us onto that.........
St Georges Day this year was in fact today (23rd April) and earlier on I played a set at The Chutney Ivy which included a new song (played in the wrong key whoops!) and lots of other usual material. The gig was played by myself on my own this time, as Sean was gigging with the Irish band he plays in and me and Nick felt it's better if it's just me on my own other than with him and me!
So quite a new and novel experience having not played on my own for some time! All in all though very good fun!!! I arrived at the Chutney Ivy at about 2 O'clock ready to play for about 2.40. The event was part of a large St Georges Day celebration in the cultural quarter in Leicester. The songclub is basically an acoustic stage usually held at the Donkey every Saturday however especially for St Georges we were at the Chutney Ivy.
So I took to the make shift stage in the restaurant at about 2.40pm and off I went playing all Davenport songs and a new song called 'Winter's Light' which we rehearesed the previous weekend but haven't played live yet. I started this song and was playing away when i suddenly realised I was in the wrong key, with the capo a fret to high up the neck of the guitar! Meaning I was forced to start again!! In the end it all went well on a beautiful sunny day in the city! A great day all in all!
Overall so far we have played some brilliant gigs, it's been just over a yea since we first got together to play this kind of material and we've developed well into th band that we are today! Our next gigs are the 15th May at Walkabout Derby for a Comic relief gig and the 3rd June for the 3rd Gentle-Folk's Ball!! We're currently working on writing some new material and are going to be recording our first full album very soon!!
Thnks for reading
Dan
p.s More photo's and videos coming soon, a broken camera is causing me problems!!
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 45 mins
Travelling: 2hrs 30mins
Rehearsing: 8hrs
Time at Gigs: 6hrs
Blogging: 1hr 30mins
Total: 18hrs 15mins
Total so Far: 156hrs 50mins
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Joel Owen & The Antoine Band
So..... Following on from the previous blog entry, We were asked to support Joel Owen and The Antoine Band at the Musician, Leicester on the 24th March 2011.
The usual journey was made to the musician from Derby on the train to Leicester and then a short 10 minute walk stopping off to purchase a fishcake and chips for tea :)
I arrived at the Musician at about 7.00pm and sound checked on my own breifly before Sean arrived and we checked without Nick agai because of him working. After the sound check the evening began, there was a fair sized crowd at this even all eager to see Joel Owen as his reputation in the local area is quite high.
We took to the stage just before Joel and the band at about 9.30 and played a 30 minute set of the usual material, without any big hitches! The gig went well and we made some friends with Joel Owen and his band, it's worth talking about his band.
Joel has been hotly tipped around Leicester for a long time and is a great singer songwriter, recently he has been playing with a full band that includes drums, bass, electric guitar, keyboards, a trumpet and trombone! These musicians are hand picked from some of Leicester's best bands and the band is a great band worth checking out at this link.
Another successful gig for us and another great night! So far we've had a really busy 2011 and it keeps on coming, another blog soon about 'Nowt Flash' at the Donkey and we're playing again as part of The St Georges celebrations in Leicester on the 23rd April, So more blogs about that also!!
Thanks for Reading
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 1hr 40mins
Rehearsing: 4hrs
Time at Gigs: 5hrs
Blogging: 30 mins
Total: 11hrs 40mins
Total so Far: 138hrs 35mins
The usual journey was made to the musician from Derby on the train to Leicester and then a short 10 minute walk stopping off to purchase a fishcake and chips for tea :)
I arrived at the Musician at about 7.00pm and sound checked on my own breifly before Sean arrived and we checked without Nick agai because of him working. After the sound check the evening began, there was a fair sized crowd at this even all eager to see Joel Owen as his reputation in the local area is quite high.
We took to the stage just before Joel and the band at about 9.30 and played a 30 minute set of the usual material, without any big hitches! The gig went well and we made some friends with Joel Owen and his band, it's worth talking about his band.
Joel has been hotly tipped around Leicester for a long time and is a great singer songwriter, recently he has been playing with a full band that includes drums, bass, electric guitar, keyboards, a trumpet and trombone! These musicians are hand picked from some of Leicester's best bands and the band is a great band worth checking out at this link.
Another successful gig for us and another great night! So far we've had a really busy 2011 and it keeps on coming, another blog soon about 'Nowt Flash' at the Donkey and we're playing again as part of The St Georges celebrations in Leicester on the 23rd April, So more blogs about that also!!
Thanks for Reading
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 1hr 40mins
Rehearsing: 4hrs
Time at Gigs: 5hrs
Blogging: 30 mins
Total: 11hrs 40mins
Total so Far: 138hrs 35mins
Folk It..... A Late Blog
On Thursday 3rd March, We played at the Musician as part of the Folk' It event, hosted by Adam Breedon. When revuing my blog entries I realised that in all of the excitement of the Gentle Folk's Ball I'd left this event out!! So here's my account of what was quite an eventful gig...
As always with being away in Derby and the gig being held in Leicester, I had to make the journey on the train with my gear ready to play, so 40 minute journey and 10 minute walk to the venue later, I arrived at the Musician for about 6.45pm. On arrival I was greeted by a very relaxed atmosphere, took a cup of coffee and went on stage to sound check (Nick and Sean hadn't arrived yet due to Nick's work and so I checked on my own, before a line check later on). Sound check done all that was left was to wait for Nick and Sean and enjoy the event.
The night kicked off with Dan White, a comedy singer songwriter making a come back to the scene after about two years of not playing a live show! The reception for him was fantastic and is song's about 'Gammy Hands' and 'Chavs' where as hilarious as ever. At about 9.00pm Sean and Nick where both there and we prepared to take to the stage.
Mounting the stage at about 10.00pm we began to play a 40 minute set including all of the usual songs, only this time there was a slight problem. Before leaving Derby that afternoon I had fitted new strings onto my guitar! Doesn't sound like a problem, however any guitarist will know that it takes time for new strings to stretch into position and stay in tune!! So although I had stretched the srings when putting them on, when taking the guitar out into the cold to transport it over and then under the hot lights, the strings had stretched all over the place and the guitar was terribly out of tune!
So a quick tune up solved the problem... for about a minute. The guitar would not stay in tune at all throughout the set and so an amusing banter began betwen myself and Nick on stage. Luckily for us our humour was responded to well by the audience and although the music wasn't of the best standard the comedy managed to get the audience on out side! Luckily by the time the set was over everybody was laughing and we had a very good night.
After we came off stage I was approached by girl asking me whether we would like to play a gig on the 24th March supporting Joel Owen and the Antoine Band. It turned out we were free and so we agreed. This moves us nicely onto the next gig in the next blog.........
Thanks for reading
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 1hr 40mins
Rehearsing: 0hrs
Time at Gigs: 4hrs 15mins
Blogging: 30 mins
Total: 6hrs 55mins
Total so Far: 126hrs 55mins
As always with being away in Derby and the gig being held in Leicester, I had to make the journey on the train with my gear ready to play, so 40 minute journey and 10 minute walk to the venue later, I arrived at the Musician for about 6.45pm. On arrival I was greeted by a very relaxed atmosphere, took a cup of coffee and went on stage to sound check (Nick and Sean hadn't arrived yet due to Nick's work and so I checked on my own, before a line check later on). Sound check done all that was left was to wait for Nick and Sean and enjoy the event.
Mounting the stage at about 10.00pm we began to play a 40 minute set including all of the usual songs, only this time there was a slight problem. Before leaving Derby that afternoon I had fitted new strings onto my guitar! Doesn't sound like a problem, however any guitarist will know that it takes time for new strings to stretch into position and stay in tune!! So although I had stretched the srings when putting them on, when taking the guitar out into the cold to transport it over and then under the hot lights, the strings had stretched all over the place and the guitar was terribly out of tune!
So a quick tune up solved the problem... for about a minute. The guitar would not stay in tune at all throughout the set and so an amusing banter began betwen myself and Nick on stage. Luckily for us our humour was responded to well by the audience and although the music wasn't of the best standard the comedy managed to get the audience on out side! Luckily by the time the set was over everybody was laughing and we had a very good night.
After we came off stage I was approached by girl asking me whether we would like to play a gig on the 24th March supporting Joel Owen and the Antoine Band. It turned out we were free and so we agreed. This moves us nicely onto the next gig in the next blog.........
Thanks for reading
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 1hr 40mins
Rehearsing: 0hrs
Time at Gigs: 4hrs 15mins
Blogging: 30 mins
Total: 6hrs 55mins
Total so Far: 126hrs 55mins
Monday, 18 April 2011
The Second Gentle-Folk's Ball...
Well it seems like a while a go now and my apologies for the late blog entry, in fact since the Gentle-Folk's Ball there have been two more gigs! One supporting Joel Owen and another at the Donkey as part of 'Nowt Flash' on a Monday night. More blog entries will follow talking about those though!
The Gentle-Folk's Ball, Friday 18th March 2011! I travelled to Leicester from Derby on a very sunny Friday afternoon dressed in my Red Nose Day T-shirt, as it was Red Nose Day and armed with my guitar and gear for playing and a couple of mics and leads to help mic up Humble He.
The 40 minute train from Derby arrived in Leicester around about half past 5 and I made the 20 minute walk across the town from the train station to the High Street where the Crumblin' Cookie Bar and Cafe is situated. A nice fairly easy jouney nowadays after the academic year's gigging I'm quite used to sitting in doorway seats on the train with my guitar and a suitcase and then trecking from one side of a city to the other! (Why do they never build venues near train stations?) That aside I arrived nice and early, which is a good thing when you're hosting the night and I began the setting up for the evening. The stage in the Crumblin' cookie is a rather clever fold up stage and so we set about unfolding the stage and setting up the microphones ready for the night.
First to arrive were Humble He. A 4 piece band with beautiful harmonies accompanied by 2 guitars, a violin and a cello. By the time we had given those guys a good sound check, the rest of the artists playing where there and ready to go.
After the doors opened at 7.30pm the crowd arrived and piled in and the show kicked off with Lena Walker. Lena is a young singer songwriter with a beautiful clear tone and soft voice, she began with a good 30 minute set of spine tingling music. She was followed by Kristy Gallacher, a successful inger songwriter from Coventry. Her guitar skills are completely increadable, and are equally matched by her beautiful lyrics and great personality. Kristy's set went down brilliantly with the crowd and after a short break in between Jack Day took to the Stage. Jack had travelled all the way from London in order to play. He is involved with the Lantern Society, a similar night of acoustic and folk music based in North London. His set was a brilliant mix of country, folk and blues guitar played to accompany a brilliant voice with an underlying gravelly tone. After Jack, Humble He took to the stage and wowed the crowd with beautiful melodies and harmonies with a set list from 'a photo of an old set list' the band charmed their way through the set and eventually were followed by us. We took to the stage and played out usual set, the hopes where to get some new material into the set but with only one band practise before the gig there really wasn't the time.
All of the bands involved with the night intermingled and some great connections were made for everybody. After the audience left, the night ended with a jamming session going late into the early hours between members of Humble He, Myself, Jack Day, Lena Walker and a good friend Daryll Kirkland from the Kirkland Turn.
Overall the night was an unequivical success and a really great experience for all the artists. A third Gentle-Folks ball is even in the pipeline already and early planning has begun!!
More blogs in the very near future regarding Joel Owen and The Donkey.
Thanks for reading!!
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 0hrs
Travelling: 2hrs
Rehearsing: 2hrs
Time at Gigs: 8hrs
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 13hrs
Total so Far: 120hrs
The Gentle-Folk's Ball, Friday 18th March 2011! I travelled to Leicester from Derby on a very sunny Friday afternoon dressed in my Red Nose Day T-shirt, as it was Red Nose Day and armed with my guitar and gear for playing and a couple of mics and leads to help mic up Humble He.
The 40 minute train from Derby arrived in Leicester around about half past 5 and I made the 20 minute walk across the town from the train station to the High Street where the Crumblin' Cookie Bar and Cafe is situated. A nice fairly easy jouney nowadays after the academic year's gigging I'm quite used to sitting in doorway seats on the train with my guitar and a suitcase and then trecking from one side of a city to the other! (Why do they never build venues near train stations?) That aside I arrived nice and early, which is a good thing when you're hosting the night and I began the setting up for the evening. The stage in the Crumblin' cookie is a rather clever fold up stage and so we set about unfolding the stage and setting up the microphones ready for the night.
First to arrive were Humble He. A 4 piece band with beautiful harmonies accompanied by 2 guitars, a violin and a cello. By the time we had given those guys a good sound check, the rest of the artists playing where there and ready to go.
After the doors opened at 7.30pm the crowd arrived and piled in and the show kicked off with Lena Walker. Lena is a young singer songwriter with a beautiful clear tone and soft voice, she began with a good 30 minute set of spine tingling music. She was followed by Kristy Gallacher, a successful inger songwriter from Coventry. Her guitar skills are completely increadable, and are equally matched by her beautiful lyrics and great personality. Kristy's set went down brilliantly with the crowd and after a short break in between Jack Day took to the Stage. Jack had travelled all the way from London in order to play. He is involved with the Lantern Society, a similar night of acoustic and folk music based in North London. His set was a brilliant mix of country, folk and blues guitar played to accompany a brilliant voice with an underlying gravelly tone. After Jack, Humble He took to the stage and wowed the crowd with beautiful melodies and harmonies with a set list from 'a photo of an old set list' the band charmed their way through the set and eventually were followed by us. We took to the stage and played out usual set, the hopes where to get some new material into the set but with only one band practise before the gig there really wasn't the time.
All of the bands involved with the night intermingled and some great connections were made for everybody. After the audience left, the night ended with a jamming session going late into the early hours between members of Humble He, Myself, Jack Day, Lena Walker and a good friend Daryll Kirkland from the Kirkland Turn.
Overall the night was an unequivical success and a really great experience for all the artists. A third Gentle-Folks ball is even in the pipeline already and early planning has begun!!
More blogs in the very near future regarding Joel Owen and The Donkey.
Thanks for reading!!
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 0hrs
Travelling: 2hrs
Rehearsing: 2hrs
Time at Gigs: 8hrs
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 13hrs
Total so Far: 120hrs
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
The 2nd Gentle-Folks Ball Preperation and Planning...
Hello,
Just less than a week now until the 2nd Gentle-Folk's ball and still a lot of planning and promoting to do! So far I've been out and about putting up posters and flyers around Leicester City Centre spending about 5 hours so far on the manual labour of fly posting (all legal I must say)!
All the bands have been breifed and are set to arrive at about 6.30pm on friday ready for a sound check and ready to play! So far I've been in touch with Demon FM a local radio station, however await there reply as to whether we will have any coverage from them. As far as we in Davenport are concerend we're ready as ever to perform, been working on some new material, however the usual Derby to Leicester distance has caused a bit of trouble in rehearsing so unfortunately we will probably not be able to reveal the new tracks just yet.
In other news we've been offered a support slot for Joel Owen and the Antoinette band live at the Musician in Leicester on the 24th March. We'll be providing the main support for the night so should be another exciting gig for us and help us in building up our fanbase and reputation.
That is all for now friends and readers
More soon!
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 7hrs
Travelling: 1hr 10mins
Rehearsing: 0hrs
Time at Gigs: 0hrs
Blogging: 30 mins
Total: 8hrs 40mins
Total so Far: 107hrs
Just less than a week now until the 2nd Gentle-Folk's ball and still a lot of planning and promoting to do! So far I've been out and about putting up posters and flyers around Leicester City Centre spending about 5 hours so far on the manual labour of fly posting (all legal I must say)!
In other news we've been offered a support slot for Joel Owen and the Antoinette band live at the Musician in Leicester on the 24th March. We'll be providing the main support for the night so should be another exciting gig for us and help us in building up our fanbase and reputation.
That is all for now friends and readers
More soon!
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 7hrs
Travelling: 1hr 10mins
Rehearsing: 0hrs
Time at Gigs: 0hrs
Blogging: 30 mins
Total: 8hrs 40mins
Total so Far: 107hrs
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
A Pinch and a Punch...
Hello, welcome again to another exciting episode in the life of Davenport Folk...
At the end of my last post I mentioned the gig in Nottingham at The Rescue Rooms so I guess I should start there.
Monday the 20th February, we were off to play the Acoustic Rooms evening at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, and so we set off again in a mad convoy from Leicester and Derby to rendez vu in Nottingham. This time I was travelling from Derby, a fairly easy journey there on the bus taking about an hour. So off I went armed with my tambourine pedal, kick pedal and various guitar gadgets (Capo, Tuner, Lead etc.) and an empty snare drum case (to be used as a bass drum!).
The remaining band members (Sean and Nick) and a small collection of fans were travelling from Leicester in Seans car as usual. This time everything seemed to go to plan. We arrived at similar times and met at the rescue rooms at about half past 9, ready to play. We were give a slot at 10.30 and so we settled down and planned the set whilst enjoying the other bands. Conveiniently for us The Go! Team happened to be playing in the main hall of the Rescue Rooms and they just finished as we took to the stage. We launched into our set and played the usual numbers (new material coming soon!!), it seemed to go down well with a quite drunk and rowdy crowd. I'd say we were a little under rehearsed and rusty in places and using the sare case as a bass drum is always a little difficult, however it seemed to work okay. Not a particularly big and meaningful gig for us but it is always good to play in different cities.
That gig over we parted ways and travelled back to our residential cities, for me however not until after staying at a friend of mine's house in Nottingham due to the last bus being at 11.15 and the last train being at 11.25 before 2am! (Thanks Nad!)
Alas... that is February over, a reasonably slow month for us as a band! March however is looking much more promising! Tomorrow (3rd March) we are playing the 2nd Folk It' Night at the Musician in Leicester. The original of these nights, hosted by a friend of ours Adam Breedon, was our first major gig and was part of Oxjam 2010. This night is Adam's first attempt at running the night in an independant context away from Oxjam and so we're looking forward to playing again.
Further on into March is again a very exciting prospect... The 2nd Gentle-Folk's Ball is to be held at the Crumlin' Cookie in Leicester. This is a new up and coming venue, with a bohemian vibe that provides the perfect atmosphere. This is the night that I host myself, Already I have speant a good 10 hours work on this project, confirming artists to play and working on the posters and flyers for promotion. On my visit to Leicester last weekend I speant the day on Saturday in the town centre going to various shops, cafes and boutiques sticking up posters and handing out flyers ready for the event. It's looking like the night is shaping up well, just need to drum up some more hype now and prepare the venue! Exciting Stuff!
Thanks for reading
Dan
P.S here's a few photo's from the Vaults in Derby (see last post)
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 2hrs 10mins
Rehearsing: 0hrs
Time at Gigs: 3hrs
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 6hrs 30
Total so Far: 98hrs 20mins
At the end of my last post I mentioned the gig in Nottingham at The Rescue Rooms so I guess I should start there.
The remaining band members (Sean and Nick) and a small collection of fans were travelling from Leicester in Seans car as usual. This time everything seemed to go to plan. We arrived at similar times and met at the rescue rooms at about half past 9, ready to play. We were give a slot at 10.30 and so we settled down and planned the set whilst enjoying the other bands. Conveiniently for us The Go! Team happened to be playing in the main hall of the Rescue Rooms and they just finished as we took to the stage. We launched into our set and played the usual numbers (new material coming soon!!), it seemed to go down well with a quite drunk and rowdy crowd. I'd say we were a little under rehearsed and rusty in places and using the sare case as a bass drum is always a little difficult, however it seemed to work okay. Not a particularly big and meaningful gig for us but it is always good to play in different cities.
That gig over we parted ways and travelled back to our residential cities, for me however not until after staying at a friend of mine's house in Nottingham due to the last bus being at 11.15 and the last train being at 11.25 before 2am! (Thanks Nad!)
Further on into March is again a very exciting prospect... The 2nd Gentle-Folk's Ball is to be held at the Crumlin' Cookie in Leicester. This is a new up and coming venue, with a bohemian vibe that provides the perfect atmosphere. This is the night that I host myself, Already I have speant a good 10 hours work on this project, confirming artists to play and working on the posters and flyers for promotion. On my visit to Leicester last weekend I speant the day on Saturday in the town centre going to various shops, cafes and boutiques sticking up posters and handing out flyers ready for the event. It's looking like the night is shaping up well, just need to drum up some more hype now and prepare the venue! Exciting Stuff!
Thanks for reading
Dan
P.S here's a few photo's from the Vaults in Derby (see last post)
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 2hrs 10mins
Rehearsing: 0hrs
Time at Gigs: 3hrs
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 6hrs 30
Total so Far: 98hrs 20mins
Saturday, 19 February 2011
That's What Friends Are For...
Hello avid readers...
It's been some time since I have written on here, indeed 19 days! I suppose 19 days isn't actually such a long time, however it feels like an age.
The return to university life has set in fully now after the Christmas break and February has seemed like a relatively quiet month for us as a band. Only two gigs booked in, and after last month's five it seems increadably slow paced. Being away from Nick and Sean in Leicester, presents us with difficulties in keeping the band up to date and ready for action, university work combined with the work we do in the band and keeping down a job to earn cash is sometimes quite a difficult juggling act. That said, we keep on rolling and February has been reasonably productive.
The first thing to mention would be the tracks that we received back from the recording we did in January. They sounded great, it was really nice to hear the tracks recorded in high quality, they have been posted onto our Myspace page and onto our new page on Soundcloud. These tracks have been produced well and really do sound great, however listening to them I think you can tell that they were recorded in a padded, no windowed space and that some of the character in the songs is lost. No disrespect to Ian who produced the tracks for us and did a fantastic job. This in mind, it has inspired us to try and set some time aside to record an EP. We'd like to be able to take our time recording in a different environment and experimenting so that we can produce an EP that shows the band to the best of our ability and quality. More on that as it happens though...
On the 15th February we played at The Vaults in Derby, a venue which we had never played before. It's a brilliantly interesting venue situated under the Slug and Lettuce on Iron Gate. As you emerge down the stairs you are met with the long arched ceiling, closely resembling the Cavern Club in Liverpool, with an atmosphere which longs to be packed out with sweaty audience members crammed in singing and dancing along.
With the gig being in Derby and two thirds of the band travelling up from Leicester logistically the gig was a bit of a nightmare. With Sean's car being on the fritz it was looking as though we may not be able to make the gig. However, being a true Scout I was determined not to let us miss one of the few slots we had in February, and so we decided if I could get hold of equiptment, Sean and Nick could come by train.
Firstly, we needed to obtain amplification! Fortunatly for me, being on a music course there was plenty of help at hand and so I asked Daniel 'Mole' Turner and Ross Labiak to borrow their amps and they obliged. (Thanks again!) Although this was an advantage, I was then met with another problem... transportation of the equipment the short distance from their houses to The Vaults. Being a very novice driver (Two lessons in fact) and not owning a car I again needed to call on the help of friends. In this case my housemate Olivia Ross came to the rescue, after promising her bribes (of which I still need to supply), It was agreed that Liv would drive me and the equipment to the Venue, I would set up and Nick and Sean would meet me there, where we would play. Simple!? Well almost...
Valentines day is one of those days which people either love or hate, being loved up and of that romantic disposition I was in high spirits and made my journey to Leicester to visit my lovely girlfriend. We had a wonderful night and then the following day (the day of the gig) the plan was to wait for Sam (the girl in question) to finish work and then acompanied by her head back to Derby in time for my Sound Technology Lecture and then the gig. Well public transport is not always the most reliable, and on this particular day it was in fact very not the most reliable! At about 3pm we set off (in the miserable rain and strong winds) to the bus stop in Leicester to try and get a bus to the train station. Only to find the bus stop with no timetable and when the bus arrived it drove straight past us with the driver giving a shrug of the shoulders to indicate they were full in a kind of 'what can you do, eh?' type of motion. Well, this was a slight turn up for the books and had knocked the schedule completely out of sync. By this time it was about 3.45 and so we headed into South Wigston, the nearby villiage town to try and get a taxi. Of course with the school run and the rain it was a catastrophy, feeling very damp and stressed we decided to take shelter in a cafe to re-assess the situation. Over a coffee, some Eggs New York (for me) and a Crepe (for the lady), We decided that we were deffianatly not going to be back in time for me to make the 5 O'clock lecture and so decided to wait until the 4.45pm train to Leicester station and then get the next train to Derby. On arrival at Leicester we discovered that the 5.09 train had been delayed! In the end we finally got a train and Arrived in Derby at 6.30pm, 15 minutes before we were supposed to collect the amps and 30 minutes before we were supposed to be at The Vaults. Needless to say we were late.
In the end, Nick and Sean arrived at about 8.00pm and we went on to play at about 10.15. This gig was the most informal we had played in a while and so we had fun playing a mixture of songs and even dabbling in a few old songs from our old bands set with James Brown's I Feel Good. We played until about 10.45pm and then cleared the stage and headed home. The gig was great fun, only a small crowd in there made up of the musicians from the PMMT course and friends.
After that adventure, we're now getting ready to play in Nottingham this coming monday. Luckily Sean's car is better and so we will have some transport, hopefully public transport won't let me down...
In other news, I have been organising the 2nd Gentle-Folks Ball, but we'll save that for a later blog.
Thanks for Reading
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 4hrs 15mins
Rehearsing: 2hrs
Time at Gigs: 3hrs 30mins
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 11hrs
Total so Far: 91hrs 50mins
It's been some time since I have written on here, indeed 19 days! I suppose 19 days isn't actually such a long time, however it feels like an age.
The return to university life has set in fully now after the Christmas break and February has seemed like a relatively quiet month for us as a band. Only two gigs booked in, and after last month's five it seems increadably slow paced. Being away from Nick and Sean in Leicester, presents us with difficulties in keeping the band up to date and ready for action, university work combined with the work we do in the band and keeping down a job to earn cash is sometimes quite a difficult juggling act. That said, we keep on rolling and February has been reasonably productive.
The first thing to mention would be the tracks that we received back from the recording we did in January. They sounded great, it was really nice to hear the tracks recorded in high quality, they have been posted onto our Myspace page and onto our new page on Soundcloud. These tracks have been produced well and really do sound great, however listening to them I think you can tell that they were recorded in a padded, no windowed space and that some of the character in the songs is lost. No disrespect to Ian who produced the tracks for us and did a fantastic job. This in mind, it has inspired us to try and set some time aside to record an EP. We'd like to be able to take our time recording in a different environment and experimenting so that we can produce an EP that shows the band to the best of our ability and quality. More on that as it happens though...
On the 15th February we played at The Vaults in Derby, a venue which we had never played before. It's a brilliantly interesting venue situated under the Slug and Lettuce on Iron Gate. As you emerge down the stairs you are met with the long arched ceiling, closely resembling the Cavern Club in Liverpool, with an atmosphere which longs to be packed out with sweaty audience members crammed in singing and dancing along.
With the gig being in Derby and two thirds of the band travelling up from Leicester logistically the gig was a bit of a nightmare. With Sean's car being on the fritz it was looking as though we may not be able to make the gig. However, being a true Scout I was determined not to let us miss one of the few slots we had in February, and so we decided if I could get hold of equiptment, Sean and Nick could come by train.
Valentines day is one of those days which people either love or hate, being loved up and of that romantic disposition I was in high spirits and made my journey to Leicester to visit my lovely girlfriend. We had a wonderful night and then the following day (the day of the gig) the plan was to wait for Sam (the girl in question) to finish work and then acompanied by her head back to Derby in time for my Sound Technology Lecture and then the gig. Well public transport is not always the most reliable, and on this particular day it was in fact very not the most reliable! At about 3pm we set off (in the miserable rain and strong winds) to the bus stop in Leicester to try and get a bus to the train station. Only to find the bus stop with no timetable and when the bus arrived it drove straight past us with the driver giving a shrug of the shoulders to indicate they were full in a kind of 'what can you do, eh?' type of motion. Well, this was a slight turn up for the books and had knocked the schedule completely out of sync. By this time it was about 3.45 and so we headed into South Wigston, the nearby villiage town to try and get a taxi. Of course with the school run and the rain it was a catastrophy, feeling very damp and stressed we decided to take shelter in a cafe to re-assess the situation. Over a coffee, some Eggs New York (for me) and a Crepe (for the lady), We decided that we were deffianatly not going to be back in time for me to make the 5 O'clock lecture and so decided to wait until the 4.45pm train to Leicester station and then get the next train to Derby. On arrival at Leicester we discovered that the 5.09 train had been delayed! In the end we finally got a train and Arrived in Derby at 6.30pm, 15 minutes before we were supposed to collect the amps and 30 minutes before we were supposed to be at The Vaults. Needless to say we were late.
In the end, Nick and Sean arrived at about 8.00pm and we went on to play at about 10.15. This gig was the most informal we had played in a while and so we had fun playing a mixture of songs and even dabbling in a few old songs from our old bands set with James Brown's I Feel Good. We played until about 10.45pm and then cleared the stage and headed home. The gig was great fun, only a small crowd in there made up of the musicians from the PMMT course and friends.
After that adventure, we're now getting ready to play in Nottingham this coming monday. Luckily Sean's car is better and so we will have some transport, hopefully public transport won't let me down...
In other news, I have been organising the 2nd Gentle-Folks Ball, but we'll save that for a later blog.
Thanks for Reading
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 30mins
Travelling: 4hrs 15mins
Rehearsing: 2hrs
Time at Gigs: 3hrs 30mins
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 11hrs
Total so Far: 91hrs 50mins
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Derby, The Donkey and the OBS Finale...
Hello, well it's been a while since I've posted a blog on here and again we've been very busy. In my last blog I mentioned that we were playing the Academy at the University of Derby in the Student Showcase that night (18th January 2011).
The gig that night was organised by Steve Faulkner, a student on the same Popular Music and Music Technology course that I study myself. The showcase consisted of a range of bands and artists and even a comedian who were all students from Derby or the surrounding area. On the day of the gig we travelled from Leicester to Derby in Sean's VW Golf, leaving out at around 3.00pm and arriving at my house in Derby at around 4.00pm. The showcase kicked off at 7.00pm so it gave us a couple of hours to eat, get ready and have a run through of some of the songs. After having a range of microwavable Italian meals and some garlic bread from the local Sainsbury's, we headed off to the SU, with me, a bass drum, a bass amp and an acoustic guitar on the back seat and the boot full with the remaining guitars, a mandolin and amplification required; needless to say the journey to the SU, although only short (10 mins), was not the most comfortable.
We arrived at the Kedlestone Road Campus at around 6.30pm and drove around to the back of the SU Bar and loaded in our equipment through the back doors before heading off to talk to the sound crew about our set time and requirements. Because of the simplicity of our band's line-up, we didnt have a sound check, but had a short line-check when we enbarked upon the stage. The evening opened with Sophie Mapplebeck playing to a fair sized crowd that kept on growing throughout her set. She was followed by Dan Quemby who we watched from the side of the stage whilst tuning up and preparing for our set. As Dan finished we were promptly on stage, set up and ready to play. We played a 30 minute set, that contained the usual 6 numbers, although we had been working on some new material, we didn't feel it was finished enough for us to perform on that night. The sound was good for us and the lighting was brilliant (being used to a few very hot lamps), however the size of the venue put us in a strange position. The venue was by far the largest we have played to date and it felt like it! Not being used to being so spread out, it left me feeling a little vulnerable and so perhaps I didn't perform to the best of my ability. That said, the gig seemed to go down well with the crowd and overall it was a very enjoyable evening. The whole event was recorded and filmed so we should have some video files online soon and potentially a live EP.
The gig in Derby was follwed by our long anticipated Gentle-Folk's Ball on the 20th January! This night was a big night for us as a band and myself ad an organiser and promoter. The idea for the gig came from sometime in early December when I was looking or gigs for the band. I was put in contact with Gaz Birtles the man who organises the gigs at Leicester's Donkey venue. The venue has been around for a few years and has picked up a reputation as being Leicester's leading Folk, Blues, Ska and Alternative venue. The idea was to create an evening of Folk music that everyone would enjoy and that we would enjoy playing. After obtaining the venue I booked the bands for the night, originally I had in mind us, The Kirkland Turn, Thomas Shepherd and Charlotte Carpenter. After ringing around, Charlotte was already busy and so that left me with a slot for another artist preferably a female singer songwriter, to keep the bill varied. After posting a message on Facebook, Sophie Mapplebeck contacted me and said she was interested in playing the gig. I gave her the slot and had a full line-up. The next thing to organise was the promotions for the gig, I quickly got onto my computer and opened the Image Manipulation program Gimp to design a poster and some flyers which i printed on brown parcel paper and weathered card in order to keep a rustic folk style. The promotions soon began and we posted out flyers at gigs we played (The Crumblin Cookie and OBS) and I speant a day from about 2.00pm until 6.00pm in Leicester City centre wandering the streets to shops and cafes sticking up posters and leaving flyers.
With all that in motion the gig was set and ready to go, but then potential disaster struck. A few days before the gig was due, I had a call from Thomas Shephard to say he wasn't going to be able to make the gig!! This could have been a really bad let down for the night, however he didn't want to let me down and so organised for a friend of his, Adam Dunmoore to play. This absoloutly saved the evening and I would recomend to any band if you can't make a gig last minute get another artist to cover for you and you will save the organiser a lot of stress.
The overall expenses for the gig were for the sound man at the Donkey, costing us £50, with the £3 charge on the door we needed at least 17 people to break even. As the doors opened people began to turn up, at first friends and family, followed by friends of friends and then complete strangers. Possibly the highlight of the night for me was having people come along due to the hard work promoting the event on Facebook and in local listings and with posters and flyers. The night was a success as far as I'm concerned with over 50 people turning up in the end. Although not a hugely large number a very good start for a relatively unknown band on an unknown night. Our set went down well and we managed to reveal our new secret weapon, Trumpeter Craig Neale. Craig had been a follower of us for a while and a close friend of mine for some years. When the idea of aving a trumpet on some songs came about he seemed like the perfect person to ask. I set to work arranging the parts for 3 songs taking a good 10 hours with rehearsals. Eventually we managed 2 of the 3 songs live and Craig has continued to play with us on occasional gigs.
After the Gentle-Folks ball, it was time for my move back to Derby for the start of the university term. It wasn't long though before we had our final gig of January in Leicester. On the 27th January, we played in the OBS Finale, along with the best of the OBS Unplugged events throughout the month. It was a brilliant night of music again organised by Val McCoy. On this particular gig I was suffering a little from being over tierd. Foolishly I had partaken in a rather heavy night of drinking and dancing the night before follwed by a 9 O'clock lecture and then the journey back to Leicester. This was not a good combination!! Although I was feeling rough I managed to hold it together for the performance and really enjoyed the night. We played a new song that we had been working on called 'Nothing Wrong', which went down well and overall we played well, even incuding a bit of audience participation on the final song of our set 'Romeo and Juliet' with the audience joining in with the 'My My My' in the chorus. We feel the night went brilliantly and now we await the results to find out if we get to play the Summer Sundae festival.
So overall, January has been the busiest month of the bands short lifetime. Onwards and Upwards to February where we have gigs in Derby and Nottingham and hopefully will get those recordings boxed up and labelled and out to the public :)
Thanks for reading!
Dan Wright
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 9hrs
Travelling: 2hrs 35mins
Rehearsing: 8hrs
Time at Gigs: 15hrs
Blogging: 2hrs
Total: 36hrs 35mins
Total so Far: 80hrs 50mins
With all that in motion the gig was set and ready to go, but then potential disaster struck. A few days before the gig was due, I had a call from Thomas Shephard to say he wasn't going to be able to make the gig!! This could have been a really bad let down for the night, however he didn't want to let me down and so organised for a friend of his, Adam Dunmoore to play. This absoloutly saved the evening and I would recomend to any band if you can't make a gig last minute get another artist to cover for you and you will save the organiser a lot of stress.
The overall expenses for the gig were for the sound man at the Donkey, costing us £50, with the £3 charge on the door we needed at least 17 people to break even. As the doors opened people began to turn up, at first friends and family, followed by friends of friends and then complete strangers. Possibly the highlight of the night for me was having people come along due to the hard work promoting the event on Facebook and in local listings and with posters and flyers. The night was a success as far as I'm concerned with over 50 people turning up in the end. Although not a hugely large number a very good start for a relatively unknown band on an unknown night. Our set went down well and we managed to reveal our new secret weapon, Trumpeter Craig Neale. Craig had been a follower of us for a while and a close friend of mine for some years. When the idea of aving a trumpet on some songs came about he seemed like the perfect person to ask. I set to work arranging the parts for 3 songs taking a good 10 hours with rehearsals. Eventually we managed 2 of the 3 songs live and Craig has continued to play with us on occasional gigs.
So overall, January has been the busiest month of the bands short lifetime. Onwards and Upwards to February where we have gigs in Derby and Nottingham and hopefully will get those recordings boxed up and labelled and out to the public :)
Thanks for reading!
Dan Wright
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 9hrs
Travelling: 2hrs 35mins
Rehearsing: 8hrs
Time at Gigs: 15hrs
Blogging: 2hrs
Total: 36hrs 35mins
Total so Far: 80hrs 50mins
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Further developments into the world of Folk...
It's been 13 days since I last posted on here and alot has happened since then, so much in fact it's difficult to know where to start!
I think it's best to start in chronological order, so lets begin on the 11th January. A while ago I was contacted by Ian Bettridge, a third year student at Derby Uni, who needed to record for his final recording project. He asked us whether we'd like to record and of course we jumped at the chance. We travelled from Leicester to Derby on Monday 10th and stayed at my lovely student house where we chowed down on a brilliant curry with all the extras and lager, whilst watching Shameless, a good relaxing night before a day of hard work.
We were booked in the studio from 10am until 4pm, plenty of time to get recording, and so we got up at 9am and prepared to leave the house. Little did we know, whilst we were busy styling ourselves for a day of windowless, headphone wearing music making and eating our Weetabix, a traffic warden was already at work along the street and had clamped Sean's VW Golf!! It turned out that Sean's tax disk was out of date, a fact that we actually knew. To cut a long story short, Sean had been waiting for his tax disc to arrive for some time and actually had a reciept to say his car was taxed, however that didn't stop us being clamped and having to pay a fine of £260 to have the car realeased!!! This of course put us off schedule and so we left the car and made the 10 minute walk carrying our gear (luckily no amps or drums) arriving in the studio at about 10.45am.
From then on the day was very successful, we recorded 2 tracks, firstly we recorded 'Romeo and Juliet' as a multitrack recording, layering the different parts up, proving that the rehearsals we'd had payed off as we all knew what to play without any real problems. Whilst recording the harmonies we managed to get Sean singing, however Nick was suffering with a bad throat and so Ian kindly recorded the higher harmonies for him. After this, we recorded 'By The Water', as a live recording with us all in the same room surrounded by different microphones and sepreated by blue sound isolating boards! Overall the day was brilliant and we got some really good recording done, due to be avaliable soon. Thanks again to Ian Bettridge!
The tracks that where recorded can be found here at: www.soundcloud.com/davenportfolk
Following the recording, we came back to Leicester again and had a few days before playing at the Crumblin' Cookie's Unplugged 2 event. The Crumblin' Cookie is a small cafe/bar that as well as serving the usual beverages to the public, hosts all sorts of artistic nights, from Poetry Brothels to Comedy Nights and of course gigs. Although the venue hasn't been designed with a stage etc the atmosphere within the place is brilliant, with artists and audience mingling together amongst local art work on the walls. We really enjoyed playing here and the gig went well. We hadn't rehearsed as much and so there were moments between songs where we were deciding what to do next, however in this environment it seems almost like the right thing to do.
So, onwards and upwards again... We have our next gig tonight at The Academy at the University of Derby, as part of the student showcase. It's looking like it will be a good night with an audience into the hundreds, so a nerve racking experience but I'm sure we'll have fun! Also news from the OBS events!! Our performance in out heat was so good that we managed to get into the Finale on the 27th January!!
Our next big gig following tonight is The Gentle-Folk's Ball, a night which I have organised personally, so means quite alot. I have speant all week getting posters up in shops around Leicester and getting flyers out there, so now all we can do is hope that people come along, more on that in the next blog!
Thanks for reading!
Dan Wright
P.S Sean managed to contest the clamping sucessfully and get all £290 back, no mean feat!!
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 2hrs
Travelling: 4hrs 15mins
Rehearsing: 4hrs
Time at Gigs: 3hrs
Recording: 5hrs
Blogging: 1hr 30mins
Total: 19hrs 45 mins
Total so Far: 44hrs 15mins
We were booked in the studio from 10am until 4pm, plenty of time to get recording, and so we got up at 9am and prepared to leave the house. Little did we know, whilst we were busy styling ourselves for a day of windowless, headphone wearing music making and eating our Weetabix, a traffic warden was already at work along the street and had clamped Sean's VW Golf!! It turned out that Sean's tax disk was out of date, a fact that we actually knew. To cut a long story short, Sean had been waiting for his tax disc to arrive for some time and actually had a reciept to say his car was taxed, however that didn't stop us being clamped and having to pay a fine of £260 to have the car realeased!!! This of course put us off schedule and so we left the car and made the 10 minute walk carrying our gear (luckily no amps or drums) arriving in the studio at about 10.45am.
The tracks that where recorded can be found here at: www.soundcloud.com/davenportfolk
Our next big gig following tonight is The Gentle-Folk's Ball, a night which I have organised personally, so means quite alot. I have speant all week getting posters up in shops around Leicester and getting flyers out there, so now all we can do is hope that people come along, more on that in the next blog!
Thanks for reading!
Dan Wright
P.S Sean managed to contest the clamping sucessfully and get all £290 back, no mean feat!!
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 2hrs
Travelling: 4hrs 15mins
Rehearsing: 4hrs
Time at Gigs: 3hrs
Recording: 5hrs
Blogging: 1hr 30mins
Total: 19hrs 45 mins
Total so Far: 44hrs 15mins
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Happy New Year...
Happy New Yearrr!! Hope you're all well :)
Well It's January 5th and so far the years got off to a cracking start! To kick the year off we began with our first heat in the Original Bands Showcase in order to try and secure ourselves a slot at the Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester. Overall there are 9 Heats and then a Final gig on the 27th Jan which will showcase the acts chosen to play at the Summer Sundae festival.
In our heat there were 7 acts all of a very high standard creating a brilliant night of midlands talent, each artist/band presented a 20 minute set in which they could show off there talent. The evening began with Marc Reeves, a singer songwriter from nottingham with a beautifully clear tone and pure voice, this warmed the audience up nicely and he was follwed by the amazing Kieren Hebdon - The Kids Bob Dylan; a 9 year old singer songwriter who held his own on stage better than many 19 year olds and blew the crowd away!!
We were on next and thoroughly ready to play! On donning the stage we set ourselves up and were introduced to the crowd by the OBS organiser Val McCoy and then we were off...
We played a set of 6 original songs and the set list was as follows:
1. What Will I become
2. Spare Me Some Change
3. By The Wate
4. Soldier's Song
5. Old Flame
6. Romeo and Juliet
The set went down well with the crowd, we were ideally placed in the line up to experience a full venue and got the full attention of them. Our reherasals payed off well which meant that the few mistakes that we made were covered well and we managed to play through within the time limit. With all this working well we were able to relax and enjoy ourselves and really let loose with the songs playing to the crowd.
Overall this gig was a successful one, that we all really enjoyed, it felt like the first time that the band had gelled in that way and it created a brilliant musical groove on stage. If anything, the only problem that I really experienced was not having enough of my guitar in the monitor, i managed to cope and played well considering, however in the future I think I will make sure the levels are set well for ease on stage. Also whilst clearing down after the set, moving the bass drum i knocked over a full glass of water, luckily missing anything electrical but lesson learned, be more spacially aware!!
This gig gave us a good introduction to the Leicester Music scene as amongst the crowd were Trevor Locke, editor of www.artsinleicestershire.co.uk, a site that lists and reviews bands and gigs, Val McCoy, a local promoter who organises the OBS gigs as well as many other gigs around Leicester and Darren Knokles, owner of The Musician and the man in charge of the Musician Stage at the Summer Sundae Festival.
It was a very entertaining night with an array of brilliant talent, other notable acts where a band called Humble He, who hopefully we'll gig with in the near future, watch this space ;)
More gigs coming soon and a recording session on 11th January at the University of Derby so hopefully first single release coming very soon!!!
Thanks for Reading!
Much Love
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 2hrs
Travelling: 1 and 1/2hrs
Rehearsing: 4hrs
Time at Gigs: 5hrs
Total: 12hrs 30mins
Total so Far: 24hrs 30mins
Well It's January 5th and so far the years got off to a cracking start! To kick the year off we began with our first heat in the Original Bands Showcase in order to try and secure ourselves a slot at the Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester. Overall there are 9 Heats and then a Final gig on the 27th Jan which will showcase the acts chosen to play at the Summer Sundae festival.
In our heat there were 7 acts all of a very high standard creating a brilliant night of midlands talent, each artist/band presented a 20 minute set in which they could show off there talent. The evening began with Marc Reeves, a singer songwriter from nottingham with a beautifully clear tone and pure voice, this warmed the audience up nicely and he was follwed by the amazing Kieren Hebdon - The Kids Bob Dylan; a 9 year old singer songwriter who held his own on stage better than many 19 year olds and blew the crowd away!!
We were on next and thoroughly ready to play! On donning the stage we set ourselves up and were introduced to the crowd by the OBS organiser Val McCoy and then we were off...
We played a set of 6 original songs and the set list was as follows:
1. What Will I become
2. Spare Me Some Change
3. By The Wate
4. Soldier's Song
5. Old Flame
6. Romeo and Juliet
Overall this gig was a successful one, that we all really enjoyed, it felt like the first time that the band had gelled in that way and it created a brilliant musical groove on stage. If anything, the only problem that I really experienced was not having enough of my guitar in the monitor, i managed to cope and played well considering, however in the future I think I will make sure the levels are set well for ease on stage. Also whilst clearing down after the set, moving the bass drum i knocked over a full glass of water, luckily missing anything electrical but lesson learned, be more spacially aware!!
This gig gave us a good introduction to the Leicester Music scene as amongst the crowd were Trevor Locke, editor of www.artsinleicestershire.co.uk, a site that lists and reviews bands and gigs, Val McCoy, a local promoter who organises the OBS gigs as well as many other gigs around Leicester and Darren Knokles, owner of The Musician and the man in charge of the Musician Stage at the Summer Sundae Festival.
It was a very entertaining night with an array of brilliant talent, other notable acts where a band called Humble He, who hopefully we'll gig with in the near future, watch this space ;)
More gigs coming soon and a recording session on 11th January at the University of Derby so hopefully first single release coming very soon!!!
Thanks for Reading!
Much Love
Dan
Hours So Far...
Planning & Promoting: 2hrs
Travelling: 1 and 1/2hrs
Rehearsing: 4hrs
Time at Gigs: 5hrs
Total: 12hrs 30mins
Total so Far: 24hrs 30mins
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