We had an awesome night last night (17.12.11) at Edinburgh's finest - and the one opportunity this year to play Christmas songs. They really don't work too well in June!
Arriving about 7.30, we found the venue absolutely jumping - and a strict door policy obviously in place. It seemed to be, no tits, no entry! Works for us!!
For once we had the chance to have a pretty detailed set up, no pressure to throw the gear together - and by God it worked. All the equipment worked first time (apart from the monitors because, for the technical, I inadvertantly plugged the monitor send into the desk return).
Taking the basis of an "Andy Cheese" set and making it even more crowd pleasing, we ripped into set one. It's hard to pick out one highlight as the band, the playing and the sound was awesome from the start. We had a great selection of rocky stuff, indie stuff and crowd pleasers which catered for pretty much everyone. If I was to pick a highlight, it'd be "Walking On Sunshine" - a new inclusion which we'd only rehearsed once but OMG it worked and felt so good!!
Into Set 2 and a gamble for the kick off - AC/DC's Thunderstruck. Again, worked a treat! The rockers in the audience were down the front giving it laldy! About 4 songs in we got the inevitable request for a Christmas song - time for a quick rejig of the set order and bring out Slade "Merry Xmas Everybody". It's actually a shame we only do this track once a year as we really do it justice!
Storming on to the end, we actually made it on time this time - Heroes and the band intros got a full airing. I just love playing this at Finnegan's, especially with Danny's strategically lined up footage of Mr Bowie playing on the video screens!
So, in the words of the song, Finnegan's Merry Xmas Everybody! Have a great time and see you all next year!
Peace & best of luv,
Neil
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