December 2008 Archives

Gimme Shelter and Teletext Top 50

By Broken Records on December 26, 2008 3:12 PM | Be the 1st to comment | No TrackBacks
Alright folks, firstly a belated thank you to everyone who stayed up way past their bedtime for Gimme Shelter the other week, it was a cracking night all round, and a sterling effort from Graeme, Annette, and the whole Gimme Shelter "posse" to keep the night running as it did. We wish every success for this worthwhile event, roll on next year!

In other news, If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It (remember all those months ago?) has made it onto one of those "Top 50 Singles Of 2008" lists, coming in at number 9 on the Teletext 50

Tour Diary - Den Haag

By Broken Records on December 18, 2008 3:01 PM | Be the 1st to comment

We got to The Hague in the afternoon and did a few laps to allow the sat-nav to work out exactly what was going .. finding the venue and getting loaded out. We were in the Nationale Toneel upstairs venue, NT2, and it seemed a very well organised affair with backline being moved in as we arrived (including, to put a grin on T's face, two Vox AC-30s...). After a short panic over plugs (we really should have brought some adapters, but we just assumed...the "British abroad" problem, I guess), we were ready for soundcheck which was pretty quick as the other bands were arriving. The room itself was very "dead", in that the sound wasn't bouncing around all over the place, which gave Kas a chance to shake his head a bit, and even on stage things were sounding quite dry.

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Q Shoot and Utrecht

By Broken Records on December 8, 2008 8:20 PM | Be the 1st to comment

We arose at what I like to call "stupid o'clock" on Thursday, with my alarm going off horribly at 5am. It is that kind of time when you realise you would have been better off just not going to bed at all, but we had to set off from The Stables at around 6 to ensure we arrived in London at a reasonable hour. The journey itself followed the line of long, boring and sleepy, but we arrived on time for some of us to go to Gibson and get a lend of some lovely guitars, and the non-lutists amongst us to go on a miscellaneous bits and bobs buying mission. Myself and Arne trawled most of Denmark Street which has about 2000 music shops in it (well, it seemed like 2000) before returning to the van to head for the photoshoot.

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