the World of Verbal Warning 31.03.09

Things are starting to look up in the Verbal Warning world after a
rather bumpy start to the year, another good gig at the Sitwell Tavern
on Friday was followed by a possible slot at the rock and blues festival
after last year's highlight was cancelled by the police, who would be
rather be out issuing fixed penalty notices than doing the job our
considerable council tax bills pay for.
Anyway, back to the Sitwell, I think it's probably the loudest we've
managed to be with our own PA, we have to be if we don't want to be
outdone by Mick Moonshine's disco. Things didn't seem to be going that
well, no mosh pit and not that much applause between songs, but I think
they were saving themselves for the encore, I got so carried away I
decided to start playing the Warhead bass intro when everybody else
thought we'd finished, after several seconds of wide eyed WTF looks from Guitar and Drummer boy and a scramble to get instruments back in place we did quiet a reasonable job of it considering the shambles it was at the last practice. Our experimenting with recording gigs continued and we got the balance better on this one so, hopefully, Drummer Boy will
put a few tracks on our my space site.
Lee of Weston put a phone video of us doing Ace of Spades at the last
Sitwell gig on you tube, which obviously has quality limitations but
captures the atmosphere quiet well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbpQ1K3B89M

the World of Verbal Warning 09.03.2009

Nearly a month since my last blog, which will probably be the norm now we've decided to go for quality not quantity on the gig front. But first things first, had a very pleasant week in sunny Tenerife, found some beer at 1 euro a pint, well I say beer, it was the local largery stuff really but in the absence of anything remotely approaching proper beer I managed to force a few down my throat with the help of Wendy Verbett.. Spent the evenings watching tribute acts, that's the way to earn a living, turn up with a mini disc backing track sing somebody else's songs for 45 minutes job done. Buddy Holly was very good although he did keep straying into Eric Morcombe territory by moving his glasses up and down and shouting way hey and the end of every song. Freddie Mercury was also entertaining once he'd assured us all he wasn't the real Freddie and he hadn't got AIDS.
On to the Tiger gig with just one practice under our belts and it turned out to be just what the band needed, our Long Eaton contingent turned out in force, we got the sound spot on and a good time was had by all, got a bit of a mosh pit going, the highlight of which was singer boy being grabbed by a girl ( with very dubious tastes) and both of them crashing into the drum kit.
Next gig the Sitwell Tavern, see you there.