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[The Ghost Of Fudge]

The Moorings Bar
Saturday October 14
9pm, £3

Fudge Present:

TORO + THE APHRODISIACS + HOLY FOLKS + PARITY’S FALL

www.myspace.com/toroscotland
“Yes, I am TORO from Edinburgh, Scotland. The gods dreamt me long ago but I have only had corporeal existence since 2004. I take the form of a three piece rock band, all of them men. The very purpose of my existence is to entertain you, my friend and remind you of musical values of old. My music has been described as Frenzied Classic Rock/ European Blues-Core/ Progressive Party Metal/ Doom Boogie, but I simply call it FEAST-ROCK.”
Influences: nineties Rock and Metal, Classical, Gipsy, Folk

theaphrodisiacs.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theaphrodisiacs
Three piece experimental dancey electronic rock from Motherwell. Their debut album "This is a campaign" is still currently available in most good independent record stores throughout the UK, released on Edinburgh independent label SL Records (www.slrecords.net). The band had the privilege of recording two sessions for the John Peel show on Radio1 (2002/2004), featuring twice in the BBC's legendry festive fifty chart (no. 49 in 2002 & no.45 in 2004).

www.holyfolks.cjb.net
http://www.myspace.com/holyfolks
They say on their Myspace site: “Classic folk music and just enough pop to make you think, ‘hmm, maybe i shouldn't have bought that metallica album!’”
Their influences include Nuetral Milk Hotel, Ivor Cutler, Tom Waits, LACH, Major Matt Mason USA, Jeffery Lewis, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Johnny Cash, The Flaming lips..........

http://www.myspace.com/paritysfall
Influenced by the places they have been and the people they have met, Parity's Fall are said to be the ideal mix of lo-fi pop and alternative indie rock. With many various influences behind them, they fuse together different sounds to create a new, fresh sound. With strong emphasis placed on the notion of DIY, band members Matthew, Steve and Alastair are confident that their ambitious dedication will bring them a prosperous and successful future.



The Moorings Bar
Saturday October 14
9pm, £3

[The Ghost Of Fudge]

this saturday night!




for full details, click here: Fudge - Moorings - Sat Octr 14 - 4 Bands - woo hoo!

[StewCat]

[Paulscoconutass]

It'd be ace if run-overs like that never happened, even if it meant pulling the plug on bands or making them cut their set if they start late.

[Frosty Jack]

Originally Posted by Paulscoconutass

It'd be ace if run-overs like that never happened, even if it meant pulling the plug on bands or making them cut their set if they start late.

What caused the problem there again? I'm sure I was told on the night but I can't remember very well. Mr Nutass kept forcing me to drink some tasty beverage or other.

[Flash@TMB]

This has only happened to us once before back in April 2004.

This time pretty much everyone must share a small part of the blame, even the audience!

Usually we allocate an hour of stage time per band, kicking off at 8pm and finishing up at midnight leaving an hour spare at the end. For some reason the gig was scheduled for a 9pm kick off... but of course the audience didn't arrive until half nine... so we held back the first band until then. Since all the bands were three pieces we gambled that it was going to be easy peasy. Doh nope.

The first band took longer than anticipated to setup, mainly due to a slightly unorthodox drum set up. Not than there is such as thing as an orthodox drum setup. I liked them, reckon they've come a long way these past few months. Of course dismantling of the unorthodox kit arrangement cost a few more minutes, but this in itself wasn't a hughe problem

The second band had 2 drum machines (in addition to the drummer), a stage mixer, their own stage monitor, a broken cable, and a missing power supply. So the setup was quite convoluted. Sourcing a power supply and tracing the cable fault cost us a bit of time. And there were some minor pedal issues. Sounded great though. Again, in isloation, these problems would not have ammounted to anything serious.

The third band looked easy on paper. They wanted to plug their combo into our 4x12, so the Engl head was removed and the swap made. But no sound came out. After a few minutes of troubleshooting it became apparent that this combo amp had stopped working so the Engl head was reinstated. This cost a few more minutes. Then because they were havign a good time, and getting a decent repsonse they decided to slip in a few more songs. In the end they palyed for the guts of an hour. I quite liked them. Normally this would have all worked out fine, but on the back of everythign else running over it was starting to get tight.

This left us with 35 minutes for the last band to set up and play their 30 minute set. On paper this was doable, until there were some issue with tuning the guitars. Eventually Mark came on stage and took care of this, but it proved to be the final strw. This left only 15mins for the performance... which was going well until we pulled the plug.

Unfortunately we've were recently warned about letting gigs go on past 1am (which is against the law), so decided it was safest to call a halt, as being caught in the act may have resulted in loss of licence, or an Enviromental Health resolution/embargo that we had to stop live music an hour earlier (like we had a couple of years ago).

So our sincere appologies for our part in this cluster fuck. Lessons we've taken from this:

A) Promoter to make sure than venue is issued with a copy of stage time.
B) Last band should be scheduled to finish 1 hour before closing.
C) Each band to be issued with 1 hour of stage time.
D) If a band goes on too long then shut them down.

So apart from running out of time it was a decent enough night.

[The Ghost Of Fudge]

we'll have the holy folks back soon by way of an apology, no fear.

[Graeme]

Is this not good enough reason for soundchecks? In advance?

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by Graeme

Is this not good enough reason for soundchecks? In advance?

No. But it's a good reason for the bands to check their gear in advance.

[Flash@TMB]

It might be worth expanding on that last point. We will not be reintroducing soundchecks during my lifetime.

For a venue with a much bigger stage, where all the bands equipment could be left in-situ then yes a soundcheck may be of benefit. But in our particular situation, they are pointless, a thing of the past, a legacy from when PA equipment was less sophisitcated.

The last time we did a soundcheck there were more problems during the gig than is usual for us. Presumably because only the exceptionally gullible, would believe that it is possible to conduct soundcheck, cart everything down off the stage to make way for the support band, then reinstate the equipment 4 hours later... only for everything to be exactly the same... so lets not bother doing a line+level check. Dun dun daaaaahn. After all if that was possible then it would negate the need to soundcheck in the first place.

Bands should check out their own equipment before going on stage. Frequently, the more professional bands dissappear off into our cellar to carry out last minute checks, in addition to tuning up.

Once they are on stage it's getting a but late in the day to ask for "a loan (yeah right) of a 9V battery". Incidentally I don't begrudge a battery EVERY FUCKING WEEK but I would rather hear about it beforehand!