"Nothing but the rain"
Every now and then it’s well worth jumping around in front of a crowd and hitting things. I would always suggest that you do this in a safe space and also where everyone knows what’s going on. I did this recently and I had a great time. Not sure what to do if we play more songs though. How do I top that?
I did a thing with some friends from work. Occasionally we open a rock evening at work where other bands play after us because they are far better than we are. I like the following photos:
We played a few songs with various line-ups because things are always more complicated than you think they are.
I had played American Idiot before in another workplace with a classic rock band called Cashback. The other two songs were new to me but I enjoyed learning them and playing them was great. My only annoyance was that every song was in a different guitar tuning and I had to change between each song. To aid me with this I finally bought an electronic bypass guitar tuner, it is one of my new favourite things.
In case you think there’s some photo trickery going on I am left handed and play that way. I’m pretty sure that for many performances I’ve been on the left of the stage and that suits me. My first public performance was our sixth form leaving bash at the school I attended and I played bass for the band Snakebite. Anyway, here’s to the next rock evening.
After such a busy week spending time visiting cool stuff around East Anglia, I had to spend a few more hours at work because I was playing in the band. Disaster Area has been going a while and we normally open the Rock Evenings. Last Friday was no exception although normally we have been practising the songs for a few months rather than the two run throughs we managed an hour before the show.
We opened with Crazy Train.
And continued with Learn To Fly. There will probably be official videos somewhere on Faceshit.
So, here’re some photos from the Disaster Area gig on the 20 March. Our set list, although small, was perfectly formed.
The quality of these photos is terrible, mainly because they’ve come from the Disaster Area Facebook page. If you really want to see more head over to that stuff. As I’ve explained before: I don’t do Facebook.
Disaster Area played a couple of songs at the MGS Arena on the 10 October 2014. This should really be a page under the DA section on MyMusic but I am moving those pages to communications to tidy up my menu etc.
Set List:
Disaster Area is:
Here’s some pictures, if I can get a video I’ll embed it on this page too.
A little later in the gig most of Disaster Area joined Iron Maidstonian to play a couple of Maiden songs:
I stole the title for this communication from an American TV show from around 2006. This is just some more pictures of me at the Disaster Area gig at MGS. They’ve been released onto Facebook which is why the quality is pretty poor.
Disaster Area played a gig along with some very talented bands last night.
Set List:
Highway To Hell [guest bassist – S-Mac, guest vocals – Parish]
Symphony Of Destruction [guest vocals – Parish]
This is only the second time I have sung in front of an audience and the first time without an instrument to play. I found the whole experience awesome. It was a real blast to be able to move and sing without having to concentrate on playing bass at the same time. I would quite like to do some more in the future.
Yes, that is an 8 year old child playing guitar in Highway To Hell.
It was the first live performance of the band Disaster Area today. We played the MGS Battle of the Bands as guests.
So for prosperity it’s the 16 November 2012 and the venue was the MGS Great Arena.
Here’s the video:
