Lollys Lounge

So, Fattyboombasstic’s first gig at the Louisiana. How did it go?

Good…. let me tell you all about it.

Marty Mcfly and me turned up at 6.45 to soundcheck (the contract had said that the first supporting band were to get there at 6.30 on the dot) Only to be told by Duncan, the sound engineer that we wouldn’t be needed until 7.30 (The Blunders’ drummer hadn’t turned up yet - tsk) Still it was nice to have a chance to have a swift shandy while sitting in the late afternoon sunshine waiting for Pete and JD to show.

The soundcheck itself went well - they have got a really good sound on stage - I could hear myself clearly through the monitors for a change! And when I scooted round the front while JD was in mid solo - the sound from the front was nice and phat!

After the soundcheck we really only had an hour to kill until we were on - unlike the 4 hours we had at Moles last week. Which was nice. Met Chris the agent(?) from Label records who had been so keen to come and see us after just hearing our Myspace tracks (?!). I agreed to put him and his scout-in-training, Luke, on the guest list. The young guy on the door was very kind and displayed our lovely box of FBB cds on the entrance desk and offered to sell them for us. It did mean that everytime I walked past I would ask “Have you sold any yet?”

There were a handful of people in there by the time we started playing - funnily the only people who turned up specially to see us (apart from the Label records peeps) were Pete’s ex-flatmates - and we’d given him a hard time earlier as he said he hadn’t got anyone coming along to see him!

I think we played well - I was really enjoying the sound on stage. Favourite songs were “Are you thinking” and “Dynamo”. Something weird happened in “Haircut” at the end - something odd that Marty was playing, but I chided him on the way home, so he won’t do it again.

Only problem was I was so paranoid that we would run over our alloted half hour slot I saw it was 9.15 on my watch and called for the last song. Then Marty said he thought we were playing till 9.20. Aaah! We had ended up only playing 6 songs! Oops…

We stuck around for the next band, The Loaders. Marty & I were struck by the lead singer’s resemblance to the Other One in Tenacious D. Acoustic punky rock covers. Very enthusiastically executed. But maybe they should have been supporting us, not the other way round…?

The headlining band were The Blunders, a Clash-esque 3 piece - with crunching squealing guitars and spiky black hair (and the bassist had one of those earrings that looked like a piece of tubing in his ear - and all you can thing about when you look at him is how much that must have hurt putting it in…)

Felt more inclined to watch them but babysitters aren’t cheap so we headed back to Bath after one of their songs.

The guy on the door stopped as as we were leaving “Four people paid to get in to see you so that means you earned… £4.00″

Woo hoo - a whole pound each :>