Good I am not, but happy I am

Well, I've not really managed to be good at all recently. It seems to be a skill that is beyond me.

I've been having a good time though, whilst not being good. We (Quercus Burlesque) have had a few gigs in fairly rapid succession recently. The lovely miss Molly Wanton came to play with us for one of them, as she was in the country briefly. That was a real treat, we've not done a gig with our illustrious accordion player since September, just before she packed her bags for Spain, when we had the worst gig we've done so far, which was a shame. It was crap because I kicked a drink over as I got on stage and blew up half the P.A. setup. Never a good start - we had to turn the monitors round and use them as speakers, a good solution except we couldn't hear ourselves - not good! It reminded me of an even worse gig I did with my old band, where for some reason, the vocal microphone was wired so that it only came out of a speaker outside of the place we were playing, so I couldn't hear myself, but the people outside could only hear me!... ouch! I don't actually want to remember that gig! But it's my benchmark of bad vocal setups, and it makes me feel better if we have a dodgy or non-existent soundcheck, that it can't possibly be worse than that!
Oh, and we have a new place to practise now, which is a very good thing as our bass player has just bought himself a 200W bass amp, which I think may have blown the roof off of our house, not to mention destroyed all hope of civil relations with the neighbours!

Oh, and another thing - aforementioned noisy bass player is creating a website for the band (currently under construction, although there's quite a splendid animation of Tone D Lowerer's bowler hat spinning!): http://www.quercusburlesque.co.uk. It's going to be the place to be on the internet soon, so bookmark it now and avoid the rush!


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