It was only a small event last night, but I am honestly so happy with it - it gave me the opportunity to try out some bits I haven't risked on tour yet, it works, I'm now quietly confident about what can be achieved.
Long day today. Up annoyingly early, off to Manchester for a slot on stage 2 at a rainy, but quite important, festival. House kit was terrible - seriously, one leg on the bass drum?? It slid all over the stage, I spent half the gig dragging the bloody thing back. And then the chain on my bass pedal broke. Yet we still played well because that's the FH way - we're just such a well oiled machine, so even when one of the cogs (the drummer) has a few technical issues, the audience are pretty much oblivious.
Then off to Market Harborough for a longer show - this was 'our' show, not on a mixed billing, so a 2 hour gig with nice meal in the interval. I just love that venue, we play there roughly every six months and, without wishing to sound arrogant, our status suggests that we may have outgrown it. But we haven't, really, because we keep going back - we just enjoy ourselves so much there. The audience are brilliant, it's really busy, we tend to have a bit of a party on stage. We were so tight tonight, long show but the energy never dipped at all.
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