Did a fun little gig on Tuesday at the St James Wine Vaults in Bath, once again backing Ed Cesar doing some solo acoustic gigs. Quite an interesting night, from a personal point of view it wasn’t the best I’ve played due to a real lack of practice of the songs and a few slight changes to them about 2 minutes before the gig and a real problem for the first half of the set with the monitors not working so not being able to hear a thing. That said it was fun and a little dissapointing that as the night got on a fair bit of the crowd had left, but it was an acoustic night on a Tuesday night not in the centre of town, so I can’t complain.
I enjoyed some of the other people playing, in particular Simon Allen, who did a fun set on the night and really engaged the crowd. His EP is worth a listen to, he gave me a copy free – so thanks Simon, if you have a few quid buy it and check out “Shooting Star” – I think it’s a really really good simple song. He doesn’t do himself favours by not putting any of his strongest songs (in my opinion) on his myspace page so don’t judge on that (or do if you like them).
More positives the Taylor now sounds fantastic live, a little play with the EQ and the right selection of cable and it really is a great sounding acoustic when plugged in as well as unplugged. I think there are some photos on facebook and myspace of the gig, I’ve not seen them yet
