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
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