Recording!!

Its been a great year. Never thought getting a band together after so many years out of it all would be so satisfying. The rewards haven’t all been emotional though, we have made a small amount of money which has mostly gone into buying gear (and beer).

We need to get our new mixing desk up and running in the new year, so we can balance the sound through the PA, so lats week we had a practice in the rehhearsal room. We miked everything up and played around with the knobs. Its surprising how different the ambient sound in the room is different to what was picked up through the desk. After playing a few songs with what seemed like a horrendous balance, we laid down 7 tracks live!! Some of them turned out pretty good, others had glaring tuning or bum note errors, but they have been committed to CD for posterity as our first recording, notionally labeled, “A Shot In The Dark” (See what we’ve done there?)

It would have been in the shops for Xmas if my old mate Roger had agreed to the marketing deal I offered his company. Ageists.

Some of the tracks might appear on the website for downloads, or at least in playable form, and I’m sure there’ll be many more appearing over the coming months.

Hope to see as many of our fans at The Sportsman on Saturday for the Xmas gig.

Merry Christmas to you all!!

Gig News.

Amazing how a simple messgae to give someone a call turns out to be really interesting! Mr Rock Steady Alan “Woody” Wood, Skins Master, said he’d had a call from Jackie at one of our favourite pubs, The New Inn at Hemsworth. “Hooray!” I thought, “Another booking.”

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FOUR new dates running through the whole of next year!!!

We must be doing something right. Could it be the sexy Dick Nee’s animal attraction? Is it that we are actually listenable and talented musicians? Thanks for your vote of confidence to Jackie and Andy at the New Inn. Flattering in itself as Andy is a highly skilled and experienced guitarist himself.

Anyway, the first date is Friday the 28th March and we’ll post the rest up on the website as soon as I can remember them.

The Messengers roll on to our second year together. What a great bunch of mates!!

Band Blog

 

Hi to all music lovers! It’s time we had a blog  for those dedicated  enough to actually find our website  and use it. (www.dontshootmusic.co.uk)   I should start by introducing us – Don’t Shoot The Messenger – a band based in Sheffield. Check out the profiles on the website if you really want to know who we are and what we do, because this blog is intended for more day to day logging of what’s going on in Messengerland.

 It’s been a whole year since our first foray into publand – A wet November Sunday afternoon at a jam session in the Woodseats Hotel, where we did three numbers. We got a very positive response, enough to make us want more. Meanwhile, Mad Ali Lowe was arranging his wedding and honeymoon, which meant our first full gig would have to wait until January, when we hit the Sportsman on Barnsley Road and blitzed the place!! What a buzz! You can see reports of the rest of the year’s gigs on the website.

Wednesday night is usually rehearsal night down on Carlisle Street. It gets me through the week. I’m going to make sure the rest of the guys know about this blog so we can keep it running. Don’t think we’ll post any of the naughty stuff that bands get up to though………