Well, I enjoyed it: Scuzzbuckets play Hydro

I don't look forward to gigs. In fact, I hate playing live, but it's better than not playing live, and tonight was good one.

A few days before the gig I changed to a fresh set of strings because I was expecting another guitarist to use my guitar, and didn't want a string breaking mid set for either of us, but in the end he had his own guitar. The new strings gave me grief, though, and I ended up having to tune the B string in the intro to 'Can I Sit Next To You Girl...', and fought to keep them in tune for the rest. Ah well, shit happens. The rest of the gig was great, with a good turn out, and the other four bands rocked. and the only thing that could have made it even better would have been if a certain someone had turned up, but c'est la vie (although I do have to say thank you for the DVD).

A bit too much...

Scuzzbuckets

A long long Friday night, a lost Saturday, a very heavy Sunday, and then a practice tonight which felt like the whole weekend again squeezed into three hours. Not sure I can keep this up.

But the set is a lot tighter, and Gary was on form, getting the sound together and tweaking the arrangements. We were beat by 9pm, and I was a bit gutted we were going to call it a night without adding anything new, but pestering Gary to show me the bass line for Elvis Costello's 'Pump It Up' meant we ended up giving it a go (after plugging everything back in), and I while I doubt we'll get a chance to practice it again in time for the next gig, I'm sure it'll be in the set soon. Probably sounding somewhere between the original and The Wildhearts version.