the World of Verbal Warning 28.09.09

Seems a long time since my last blog but we've finally had another gig, it was at the Poet and Castle in Codner which happens to be our "local" after practice, the omens were not good when my car refused to start in the car park after Wednesday's practice, after spending 40 minutes fiddling around, the immobilizer was still stubbornly stopping the car from starting so we ordered a cab, and guess what, yep, it suddenly burst into life, it's getting expensive running these modern cars, it's only 5 years old and I've had to replace the battery in the key fob already.On to the gig which despite Wednesday's troubles, turned out to be a cracker, the place was punk rocking, people were actually dancing around, there was some inter band violence towards Guitar Boy when Singer Boy got carried away and smashed him in the face when he spread his arms during Jet Plane and then I hit him on the head with the end of my Bass (fortunately there was no damage to my bass) all it needed was Drummer Boy to spear him with a flying drum stick and he would have had a full house, the place was still pretty full when we played our 2nd encore, we're on a roll at the minute, that's 3 good ones on the trot it's bound to go pear shaped soon, anyway so far so good and we think we'll be back there in March sometime.We're in the studio on Friday to start recording our 2nd album so we're all looking forward to that and then we've 2 gigs next weekend, on the minus side we've just heard the Fishpond gig has been cancelled due to the pub being refurbished, we've been promised a date when it reopens.

the World of Verbal Warning 01.09.09

Just returned from a better than expected weekend at Lumb Farm playing at the Blyth Power Ashes, didn't bump into any Australians fortunately, or is that unfortunately after England's victory in the real Ashes? Overdid it a bit on Friday night, the Abbots was slipping down a bit to well, after being a bit poorly I was freezing cold in the tent and decided to stumble down to the car to get warm, woke up 2 hours later with the engine still running, still I was nice and warm, got back to the tent at 3.30 where Wendy Verbett, imagining I was lying face down in some ditch was about to call out mountain rescue.On to the gig, we had a Saturday Lunch time slot again, I think we've resigned ourselves to the fact we aren't going to get a prime Friday or Saturday night slot, they seem to be taken by the same bands every year. In spite of that it went very well, unlike last year, I had sobered up enough to remember the bass line to the opening song and the room was pretty full to start with and more importantly at the end of the set as well, and we had some very nice comments from people who hadn't seen us before. After the gig we were having a drink on the site, when the strains of OCD wafted through air, someone was playing a Kick in the Verbals, glory glory.Next years Ashes are in Norfolk, so we're all looking froward to that, next gig is the Poet and Castle in Codnor, rock on