you know youve had a good weekend gigging when...

[Dmoney]

...you get home and count how many bruised and swollen knuckles you have, and it add up to ten or more.

ouch.


also... being a northerner and living in london, i sometimes miss the northern charm of places like nottingham, where people in bars shout "TALIBAN!" at a passer by of differing ethnicity. a person i know from london there to see the bands was really shook up by that. apparently the bar staff dig that s*%T.

[ailean]

and it add up to ten or more.

You play with your toes? Or do northerners have more fingers?  :P  :D

[hamfist]

i sometimes miss the northern charm of places like nottingham, where people in bars shout "TALIBAN!" at a passer by of differing ethnicity.

Have a you ever considered a job in marketing and tourism. You're really making Nottingham out to be a superb place !

Anyway, enough of that nonsense, tell us about the Avenger's real debut !

[Dmoney]

well, im counting bruises on my knuckles and half way along my fingers. my wrist in also knackered and my little finger on my fretting hand and my thumb on my pick hand no longer function 100%

still, our singer managed to grate his knuckle off one hand on the ceiling of one venue, leaving 4 trails of blood across the roof, and some nice blood spatters on the floor.

stupid. it was all accidently. i dont want to make it sound like you know, we try to be wild. cos we dont.


the Avenger is awesome!
This weekend i used it with my LP Custom with Rebel Yell set. Turbo Tuner, Dime Crybaby Wah and DD-3 Delay.
I played throught some BAD cabs though, a harley benton (YUCK! a 4x12 with a 2ohm input? usefull!)

Avenger is solid. that + my rebel yells hold back feedback SO well, i don't have any need for a noise suppressor. and if i want to do an extended pause with no feedback at all, i can just dip with volume knob a bit and its totally gone. so good. the EL34 power rather than 6L6 is awesome. It sounds a bit more british than the one that broke down. I'm still not quite used to dialing it in at real volumes, but its a total joy to use and ive never been happier with an amp.

[ailean]

Cool :)

I'm gald it went well after your trials and tribulations getting it!

[Dmoney]

ive done 3 shows with it now.
solid. It has Ruby EL34's in though, which i dunno, im not sure how good they are. my mesa has JJ EL34's

[WezV]

dont be telling these bloody londoners that nottingham is north!!! 

[Dmoney]

to me its the midlands. but north of birmingham, which is my border. although manchester is northern as far im concerned. Im from near southport in the north west. I must admit, nottingham has a similar attitude to a few places in the north east.

[WezV]

I am in Burton.  What these londoners struggle with is the idea of people from the midlands who are not brummies! ;)

I used to live in Bolton and then Chester so am familiar with the north west, which is just not northern at all compared to the North east

[Dmoney]

i wouldnt say chester was really that northern feeling, its a stones throw from being welsh. haha. i spent a lot of time around liverpool, preston, leyland, wigan, manchester. those places have their grim nothern-ness.
but yeah, leeds, and sheffield aren't too different. i've never been to newcastle or middlesboro. which can be tough.
oh...Hull, i went there once. CRAZY

[WezV]

your right, chester can be quite different to the average northern town.  I liked living there.  Bolton has typical Northern grimness about it and i swear it rained every day for the 3 years i was there.

[Dmoney]

man........ Bolton.... eww
i went to uni in Salford. thats grim.

[ailean]

The North begins at Oxford :) (Isn't Winchester in the Midlands?)

[Johnny Mac]

Your gigs went well then. Glad to hear your happy with your amp after all the cr@p you were put through and you like it.
You must of been playing with plenty of Ommpfff to bruise your hands like that!

I really want to visit some more places in the UK. I've explored other countrys more than this one. When I was in NZ a lot the Kiwis from the south Island hadn't been to the north island and vice versa.

[horsehead]

Hull, i went there once. CRAZY

It's not that mad a place... Ilive there so it can't be that bad