Friday we played the first Dub Pistols Live band gig of the year, in Reading @ Sub 89, which also marked the first gig of our March double headlining tour with true legend Neville Stables from The Specials !!
Neville and his Band played a a brilliant set and took us through all the big old ska standards from 50’s/60’s to The Specials’ top catalogue of ska classics of the late seventies. The band played super tight and groovy and Neville seemed such a nice guy both off and on stage where he oozes charm –you just cannot not like this man.
Our Dub Pistols set was great, though it felt a little bit like the first gig of the year….which it was. A couple of adjustments was needed…. which we luckily had fully under control the next day when we repeated the whole thing @ The Globe in Cardiff, and played a super inspired set.
Neville and his Band played a a brilliant set and took us through all the big old ska standards from 50’s/60’s to The Specials’ top catalogue of ska classics of the late seventies. The band played super tight and groovy and Neville seemed such a nice guy both off and on stage where he oozes charm –you just cannot not like this man.
Our Dub Pistols set was great, though it felt a little bit like the first gig of the year….which it was. A couple of adjustments was needed…. which we luckily had fully under control the next day when we repeated the whole thing @ The Globe in Cardiff, and played a super inspired set.
On the way back from the Reading gig on Friday night,’I’m sad to say my good old £650 Fiat Punto died after 4 years of loyal service with thousands and thousands of miles under the clock. Luckily I was on my way BACK from a gig, as suppose to breaking down on the way TO one, -but as I sat there in the “dying corpse” of my life-depending-transport ,while getting colder and colder and with the swooshes of cars passing by me only a few feet away…. I didn’t really see the positive side of the situation….
After about an hour the breakdown assistance guy turned up, took one quick look (and sniff) under the hood and declared a blown head gasket, following it swiftly up with “where do you wanna go” ? –Luckily I didn’t have to reply with “King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow”…….which probably wouldn’t have been that fun travelling to on the flatbed of a tow truck…
After about an hour the breakdown assistance guy turned up, took one quick look (and sniff) under the hood and declared a blown head gasket, following it swiftly up with “where do you wanna go” ? –Luckily I didn’t have to reply with “King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow”…….which probably wouldn’t have been that fun travelling to on the flatbed of a tow truck…
SUNDAY was the big ANDREAS S JENSEN THREE PIECE trial day…. Joel from EAR Music had so kindly given us a 7PM slot @ The Old Queens Head in Islington which is a super classy venue with a normally great PA system. Unfortunately the bass amp I was supposed to use -kindly made available by one of the other acts,- turned out not to be coorporative …..it was stuck in some kind of “tuner mode”…… (why mess up a good amp with putting cheap digital gadget in it anway, I say –it’s like not being able to drive your car cause the cigarette lighter keeps blowing a fuse……). SO… I gave up on the amp and asked the sound engineer to put my bass in the stage monitor…..which unfortunately had a horrible crackling sound, that I had to live with for the entire gig…..Damn !
Despite all this, I was well happy with the gig. It all felt really good once we got going, and several friends came up afterwards and told me that they actually preferred the “rawer, basic” sound of the three piece compared to the more sophisticated and BIG sound of the four piece.
Ollie Hipkin and Ben Ferrari played great !, as always, and all in all I think I can declare the Three Piece Experience a success …at least for smaller venues when the amazing Chloe Treacher can’t make the gig.
Unfortunately no one took any photo's at The Queens Head....so here's one of Ben Ferrari with some veg....
Despite all this, I was well happy with the gig. It all felt really good once we got going, and several friends came up afterwards and told me that they actually preferred the “rawer, basic” sound of the three piece compared to the more sophisticated and BIG sound of the four piece.
Ollie Hipkin and Ben Ferrari played great !, as always, and all in all I think I can declare the Three Piece Experience a success …at least for smaller venues when the amazing Chloe Treacher can’t make the gig.
Unfortunately no one took any photo's at The Queens Head....so here's one of Ben Ferrari with some veg....
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