Thursday, September 01, 2005
Where do I start?
Since my last post Reading Fringe Festival and Reading Festival proper have been and gone. So much happened in that week that I might have to split it over a couple of posts.
It was an incredible week for music. I saw some phenomenal performances, Six Nation State at the BBBs, Aqua Livi at Screwball Cabaret and Iron Maiden at Reading festival to mention a few.
The standard of the Fringe events seems to have been really high. Our publicity got people into the venues and they seemed to be enjoying themselves when they got there! Let's hope they keep coming to gigs now it's all over.
From a personal point of view the Müf/Six Nation State gig was a highlight. I thought we played pretty well, our new songs went down well and we really enjoyed ourselves. Six Nation State were absolutely brilliant though. Thank goodness we decided to go on first! Not sure how anything could have followed that.
Screwball Cabaret was an incredible amount of work/organisation and stress but oh so worth it. The acts we booked did their best to help out and all played as well as we hoped. Suitable Case for Treatment were a highlight because I'd never seen them before. Definitely going to try and get their album which I think is in the shops now. When we first imagined the HeBGBs stage (also known, slightly inaccurately, as the acoustic stage)I thought that Carter would be a perfect band for it and so they proved to be. Excellent. Ben Marwood was good as always although most of his set I spent running around desperately searching for equipment/moving amps around. Polar Remote were really good, their flowing atmospheric music really suited the venue.. and what can I say about Aqua Livi? The man is a legend. Before the venue even opened he gave a masterclass in how to perform a perfect soundcheck and once he started we couldn't get him off stage! Not that we wanted to, his 30 minute set went on for well over an hour and it was absolutely amazing. It might have been hard work but we're going to have to do another one.
To be honest, if we can get acts like this at the Fringe I'm not sure why it's worth spending £125 + booking fee on the real festival.
Other than Maiden of course.
More on the real festival later.
It was an incredible week for music. I saw some phenomenal performances, Six Nation State at the BBBs, Aqua Livi at Screwball Cabaret and Iron Maiden at Reading festival to mention a few.
The standard of the Fringe events seems to have been really high. Our publicity got people into the venues and they seemed to be enjoying themselves when they got there! Let's hope they keep coming to gigs now it's all over.
From a personal point of view the Müf/Six Nation State gig was a highlight. I thought we played pretty well, our new songs went down well and we really enjoyed ourselves. Six Nation State were absolutely brilliant though. Thank goodness we decided to go on first! Not sure how anything could have followed that.
Screwball Cabaret was an incredible amount of work/organisation and stress but oh so worth it. The acts we booked did their best to help out and all played as well as we hoped. Suitable Case for Treatment were a highlight because I'd never seen them before. Definitely going to try and get their album which I think is in the shops now. When we first imagined the HeBGBs stage (also known, slightly inaccurately, as the acoustic stage)I thought that Carter would be a perfect band for it and so they proved to be. Excellent. Ben Marwood was good as always although most of his set I spent running around desperately searching for equipment/moving amps around. Polar Remote were really good, their flowing atmospheric music really suited the venue.. and what can I say about Aqua Livi? The man is a legend. Before the venue even opened he gave a masterclass in how to perform a perfect soundcheck and once he started we couldn't get him off stage! Not that we wanted to, his 30 minute set went on for well over an hour and it was absolutely amazing. It might have been hard work but we're going to have to do another one.
To be honest, if we can get acts like this at the Fringe I'm not sure why it's worth spending £125 + booking fee on the real festival.
Other than Maiden of course.
More on the real festival later.
# posted by Mike @ 10:29 
