the World of Verbal Warning 13.02.09

Just had an eventful weekend, decided to buy a new TV after my old one blew a fuse for the second time, but it was crap so I took it back, then I lost my phone, rang the number, unable to answer came the reply, then realized it was in my jeans pocket, which was in the washer! had to put it on spin cycle to get it open, fortunately although the phones knackered the simm card works in my old phone, then it was off to the frozen wasteland that is called Horncastle for a gig on Saturday, now I won't go into to much detail but relations within the band weren't good, and although we seemed to be going along ok once again the pub was decidedly on the empty side when we finished, for the third gig in a row, which bought about much agonising and emailing and near collapse of Verbal Warning ... we've decided to carry on, but a less intense schedule of gigs, so hopefully we'll see you all at the Tiger on March 6th.Oh, now I need a new exhaust for my car, so much for bad things happening in three's.

the World of Verbal Warning 20.01.09

the Derby Beer Festivals been and gone, another gig where we managed to more a less empty the place, but I don't think it was our fault really, the first night on a thursday was always going to be tricky and I think there was a lot doing early doors straight from work, so it was busy to start with but quietened down later on but the ones who stayed seemed to be having a good time, we'll have to see whether we get asked back next year.We've just been asked to support TV Smith at the Mill in Mansfield on April 24th, great stuff, but in true Verbal Warning style nothing is straight forward, we'd already arranged that date to play the Malt Shoval, so yours truely has to go along there and unarrange it.Statto the Drummer Boy has just informed us all that the new Verbal Warning has now done 115 gigs, 36 last year which is a pretty impressive effort, think we'll be struggling to match that this year, mind you, according to Guitar Boy we are in our creative period, getting ready for the long awaited difficult 2nd CD.

the World of Verbal Warning 20.01.09

the Derby Beer Festivals been and gone, another gig where we managed to more a less empty the place, but I don't think it was our fault really, the first night on a thursday was always going to be tricky and I think there was a lot doing early doors straight from work, so it was busy to start with but quietened down later on but the ones who stayed seemed to be having a good time, we'll have to see whether we get asked back next year.We've just been asked to support TV Smith at the Mill in Mansfield on April 24th, great stuff, but in true Verbal Warning style nothing is straight forward, we'd already arranged that date to play the Malt Shoval, so yours truely has to go along there and unarrange it.Statto the Drummer Boy has just informed us all that the new Verbal Warning has now done 115 gigs, 36 last year which is a pretty impressive effort, think we'll be struggling to match that this year, mind you, according to Guitar Boy we are in our creative period, getting ready for the long awaited difficult 2nd CD.

the World of Verbal Warning 05.01.09

Well, I hope you all had an absolutely wonderful Christmas and New Year and you're all happy to be back at work :-(. We had 3 gigs over the festive period first the Tiger, which we were a bit apprehensive about, turned out to be the best, although not as good as the last one there because nobody tried to chin Guitar Boy, incidently he sent an account of that incident off to some guitar mag and won the star letter prize which was a dinky little home recording ipod thingy worth about £140, so a good result there. Next up was a private 50th birthday party of one of our Beeston fan club which went OK, we're not everybody's cup of tea but enough of the crowd liked us to make it worthwhile, and me and Singer Boy had a piss up afterwards. The New Years Eve gig was strange, the place was solid during our first hour then we took a half hour break telling everybody we'd be back to see in the new year and most of them left! so it all went a bit flat for the second hour, and my amp was playing up, suddenly going up to full volume for no apparent reason which was a bit disconcerting. We've got the Deby Beer Festival this Thursday so that should be a good one.

the World of Verbal Warning 18.11.08

We were all looking forward to the Greyhound gig, our only one in November, but in true Verbal Warning style things didn't exactly go to plan, first of all Singer Boy was not very well, no, he really wasn't very well this time, we know this cause he's not gone into work since, mind you he did go to 3 gigs last week as well as ours at the Greyhound, as Guitar Boy put it, he really is his own worst enemy. Anyway things were going well when someone at the pub got nervous about the strain we were putting on the PA and turned us down towards the end of the 1st set, and the vocals disapeared, at half time we tried to put things right without success, to cut a rather long story short the newly miced up snare drum finished up dominating the mix, it wasn't a disaster, but it could have been better.
Because of Singer Boys health problems he's giving practice a miss tonight, or is it cause England v Germany is on the TV? so the rest of us are cosying up in Drummer Boys office in an effort to keep warm, and it doesn't give much room for swinging fists if we discuss what went wrong on Saturday.
Just bought a new computer keyboard of ebay, £2.20, bargain me thinks, when it arrived it's an American one, you know the type, no pound sign on it grrrr. Lets hope the ear plugs and guitar lead are a better buy when they arrive.
Singer Boys off to China to visit his step daughter, no she's not Chinese she's teaching Long Eaton English out there, the mind boggles, anyway it was touch and go as to whether he got a visa on account of the fact his occupation is a journalist, but as soon as he explained he was Sports Editor with the Manfield Chad he was granted one.
So, I don't know when I'll find anything remotley interesting to say till after Christmas, because our next gig's not till December 23rd But if anything crops up I'll let you know. If not, have Merry Christmas, bah humbug.

the World of Verbal Warning 30.10.08

Well we all enjoyed the Penetration gig at Mansfield's the Mill, looks like they've got a new sound guy who doesn't turn everything up to 11 so everybody got a good sound, still loud but not distorted and Penetretion were superb. Now as you who know me know, I'm a big cask ale fan and think larger is the same colour as what it tastes like, so, if anybody saw me walking round the Mill with a cans of Carling in my hand I must explain that it was a band rider and therefore free, those of you who know me will also know I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so it was principles 0 wallet 1. Our gig at the Salutation on 23rd October got cancelled, we'd been double booked with god knows who, so we were all a bit miffed, this week they're asking for bands to play, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Guitar boys got a bad back to go with his bad amp, both are not working as they should, so it's perhaps as well we've got nothing on this week.
Mind you I think we'll all have bad backs soon, just bought some bass speakers for our ever expanding PA, the DHL driver was not amused at having to deliver them. Talking of equipment, the tweeter blew in one of our monitors, Singer boy took it back and its our fault for being to rough with them, treat them gently they said, they're monitors that sit on the floor at gigs, it's a bit like buying a car, then when it breaks down being told its your fault for switching the engine on.
That's about it I think, probably be a while till the next report, we've not got a gig till the Greyhound on November 15th.

the World of Verbal Warning 15.10.08

Here's the report about our busy weekend as promised. The Nottingham Beer festival gig was a stormer, the place was nearly a sell out, and the Amplifires very kindly stayed on so we could use there PA, we premiered our Dambuster theme tune intro, an idea we nicked from MFN, which seemed to work well. Me and Guitar Boy very nearly missed the chance to call Singer Boy a twat when he unexpectedly revived his intro to a Ploy Named Sue and we were chatting away about something and only just got to the mic in time. The security Guard was roundly booed by the crowd when he enforced the 11 o Clock curfew and an old DJ hero of mine, the one and only John Shaw came up for a chat afterwards and said how much he enjoyed it, he likes a bit of old skool punk rock does our John.
The next night was a reverse of the previous evening, we were on first and the second band, Fightback, borrowed our PA, a good time seemed to be had by all, a decent crowd, some of the Tiger lot turned up, someone even said the guy who tried to chin Guitar boy was there, throwing one fingered salutes at us, but as Arson Wenger would say I didn't see that. It's a nice venue at the Sportman in Long Eaton, pity they charge £100 for the hire of the room.
We've got the Penetration gig at the Mill in Mansfield to look forward to now then it goes very quiet, since the Sitwell gig's been cancelled we've only got one gig in November, might give us chance to work on some new songs for the new CD