First Name Michael in it's latest state has now performed live twice. Both times have had good response and overcome some...interesting (to say the least) situations.
Jakes, Olympia Washington, March 2, 2008
The first show was Queerfest, at a bar in Olympia Washington. This was a long strange night. The beautiful Miss Kimberly and I met up with our Bass player Bill Rensmith at about 4 o'clock sunday night and rumbled up to Olympia. After loading gear onto the stage we got some drinks and waited for the opening act. And waited. And waited... and waited. About an hour and a half late , a singer songwriter came on and nervously sang about a dozen songs.
Next Up was Tin Sprocket, who played a real good energetic set. A 6 pc. group that included your standard singer, guitar player, bass player and drummer then had two ladies singing back up vox. Great set all together, as a guitar player I must say their guitar player had some serious skills. Nice work man.
Third to take stage was the amazing 3 pc. group Audrey Howard and the Hussies, I must say I was blown away by the leadership guitar and vox abilities. She had everything dialed and knew how to use her guitar and equipment as if it was the feet she walked on since she was born. The band as a whole was amazingly tight, and all together played an incredible set.
We were fourth and our set started two hours after it was supposed to. We ran through our 9 songs in just under 40 minutes. I had some volume problems here and there, most of it seems to be logistics. I need to get some different equipment and get a hold of my pedals and their settings a little better. Overall we played pretty good, especially considering it was my first stage appeance and all.
The long sunday night ended for me, strung out, at 3 am talking to my brother online about what it's like to be on stage. It's incredible. Work at 7 the next morning however... was not.
15th Street Pub, Vancouver Washington, March 8, 2008
The second gig was this past saturday. The 15th street pub is a great small venue for a band like us. They had an awesome stage set up and brought in a good crowd for a saturday night. We were supposed to go on second, but the opener had to share equipment with the last act so we ended up playing first. It worked out well as a lot of my friends who were in attendence had quite the drive back to corvallis after our set.
We played and sounded great. I had one mishap when I stepped on a cord that unplugged from one of my pedals. With so many chords running around and it being dark it was difficult to quickly fix the problem. Another example of why I need a solid pedal board of sorts as I missed the first half of the song due to this problem.
From what I can tell people who have never heard of us started to get into our music, it's encouraging for us moving forward. If we can get new comers interested in us we can start to develop a following which is kind of the first step of being an established act. We can start nailing down some cooler venues to play, overall seems things are going really well.
New songs from our last performance are now on the myspace page!! We have our third show this week, then we'll take a small week long break before hitting the town hard in April!! Full calander, as always, is available on the myspace page.
Cheers Portland!
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