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Oscar,
Pauline, Mike, birthday girl Louise, Maeve &
Broc |
gig
report
Sun. 26.4.15 Louuise's 60th Nth Fitzroy Bowling
Club
Duo
disappears in North Fitzroy
27.4.15 - The occasion
was Louise's (see pic) 60th birthday party
held at the North Fitzroy Bowling Club. We got this
pleasant Sunday arvo gig as a result of the duo's
appearance at the Elwood Food & Wine Bar and
while we didn't get that sort of knowledgable attention
we were managing to have a lovely time. That being
said, when Broc (and Kathleen) had to rush off at
3.30 to catch their flight north it felt as though
our part in proceedings had come to its natural
conclusion.
If you've got a birthday coming up you should consider
booking Mike & Broc - see Book
Spectrum |
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1)
My partner Maria and Dr Margaret Sellers chat before
the show 2) I'll Be Gone gets the punters up on
their feet
gig report
Sun. 18.4.15 The Lomond Hotel East Brunswick
The
crowd rules - OK?
19.4.15 -It was wet
and miserable when we arrived at The Lomond, added
to which we were running late due to the now customary
bottleneck on Alexandra Parade and imagined the
Sellers' getting impatient for us to arrive for
our pre-gig meal together. As it happened they'd
managed to lock themselves out of their house and
hadn't arrived as yet so we made do with an unsatisfying
dish of calamari and I set up my equipment while
we waited.
We've been doing very little as a band of late but
I was keen to experiment with an idea that had occurred
to me during the John Mayall set at the Recital
Centre (see the report on the ASR
page) the implementation of which required a deal
of co-operation from Robbo. He hadn't had time to
do anything formal so he experimented with a towel
placed on his snare drum in various increments -
and I must say that we were both delighted with
the result. I was able to wind back my amp volume
and the overall level dropped, which of course suits
a small-ish room like the Lomond's much
better.
The composition of the crowd at The Lomond is always
unpredictable but we had some real fans in the room,
a group of whom insisted we play Launching Place
Part 2, (which I don't usually attempt without
keybaoards) and quite a few other items of Spectrum
esoterica. As usual I'll Be Gone got people
up dancing (God knows why - you can't really dance
to it) but for a change they were persistent, which
meant we were seduced into feeding the beast and
didn't finish the second set till midnight! As a
consequence the third set comprised of only two
numbers - well, that is until the crowd demanded
an encore and specified Esmeralda.
We obliged of course, because the customer
is always right, but an especially late night was
had by all as a result which doesn't necessarily
suit a grumpy old bugger like me. |
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The
dynamic duo rides again at the Elwood F&W Bar
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gig
report
Sun. 12.4.15 Elwood Food & Wine Bar
Duo
heading on up!
13.4.15 - At the end
of the gig I turned to Broc and said, 'I don't know
why, but we're getting better and better!' - and
it's true! We had the one initial rehearsal but
since then we've been winging it and it is getting
measurably better. Or is it?
Maybe it's that we're paticularly impoverished for
gigs of any description this month and are simply
enjoying it more as a result - dunno. Anyway, we
were a bit light on for a crowd early on, probably
due to the short lead time - we were only there
because of a late cancellation - but everybody joined
in at the appropriate times and we even did an encore. |
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Nothing
much to report..
9.4.15
- I owe Dr Wazz Sellers a vote of thanks for retrieving
last month's Stop Press page, which I accidentally
erased whilst tidying up last night, but apart from
the forthcoming duo gig at the Elwood Food &
Wine Bar this Sunday (which just came in) and the
trio gig at The Lomond Hotel the following Saturday
(the 18th) there's bugger all to tell you about
gig-wise.
I've been keeping myself busy nevertheless with
the odd recording sessions, firstly with the beautiful
Bev Fraser, who books me and the band for the occasional
night at the Vesbar Wine Lounge in Somerville, and
secondly with the less beautiful but always interesting
Mark Tinson, who famously flew the band up to Newcastle
for a one-night-stand at Lizottes a year or so back.
I suppose I could've been using the time to catch
up on the blues CD I've been fiddling with abstractly
for the last couple of years, but no news there
either.
Talk amongst yourselves for a moment or two longer.. |
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