Casa kicked off this year’s May Week festivities with a gig at Hughes on Saturday night/ Sunday morning. (Is it wrong to make a Phil Collins reference in a post?) Booked from 1AM to 3AM, that was actually pretty much the times we played. We were preceded by a pair of guys doing rock covers; both played guitar and sang, and used backing tracks to fill in for the rest of the band. They were quite good, and I felt sure that if I’d challenged them with any guitar-based number from the 50s onwards they’d have been able to play it. I bet they go down a treat at weddings. They also had the gear issue totally sorted; both used a pair of mic’ed up 1×10″ combos combined with Boss multi FX units, and the tones they got were frankly ROCKING. Size isn’t everything, kids.
The gig itself was good, though I was severely flagging towards the end of the second set. In fact of all the things that happened on Saturday, by far the most remarkable was walking out of the underpass next to Hyde Park and being passed by the of the World Naked Bike Ride. The word peloton is apparently derived from the French for ball. It was never more appropriate.
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