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.

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.