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