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Will Play For Food: A tale of two gigs
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Thursday, 22 July 2010. A tale of two gigs. It's been a relatively quiet time for us recently, but we did have a burst of uncharacteristic energy at the beginning of this month when we played Elysian Nights, at Dirty Dick's on Bishopsgate, and then the Water Rats the very next night. And the two gigs could not have been more different. Sadly the reality is all too often like the gig we played the next night. In case you're wondering, yes I did see...
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Will Play For Food: June 2010
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Thursday, 10 June 2010. Must the show go on? Every went pitch black. (I was playing a fretless bass in those days, and I discovered that it is impossible to play in the dark by touch alone…). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Furbelows on Facebook. The Furbelows on Myspace. Cirque de Crème Anglaise. The Institute for Alcoholic Experimentation. Must the show go on? London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile.
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Will Play For Food: August 2010
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Tuesday, 31 August 2010. Ancestral home of The Furbelows' own night, the Cirque de Crème Anglaise, suddenly closed down last month, leaving me scrabbling to find a new venue for the two shows I had already booked—not easy when you’re asking for a specific Friday night in the not-too-distant future. I was extremely lucky to have recently fallen in with Ed Saperia, who runs the Salon d’Été. From the beginning the idea was to create a much classier e...
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Will Play For Food: Great origin myths of rock and roll
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Friday, 21 May 2010. Great origin myths of rock and roll. Following hotly on from yesterday's post (thanks to those who sent me their contributions), the same friend has just emailed with another task. This one I confess I'm struggling with. He wants album titles (exclusively British ones at that) that are seemingly incomprehensible but have an interesting story behind them. Examples he gives are Disraeli Gears. Allegedly slang for sex). A brief s...
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Will Play For Food: February 2010
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Saturday, 27 February 2010. Once again, a road death works in our favour. However, we still managed to make it through to the next round. The system was that seven bands play on the night and the highest-scoring four go through to the next round. But on this occasion three of the bands pulled out at the last moment, so we all went through anyway, making for a very gentlemanly atmosphere at the sparsely occupied venue. Bizarrely, we have been here ...
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Will Play For Food: Circus vs Cabaret?
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Tuesday, 31 August 2010. Ancestral home of The Furbelows' own night, the Cirque de Crème Anglaise, suddenly closed down last month, leaving me scrabbling to find a new venue for the two shows I had already booked—not easy when you’re asking for a specific Friday night in the not-too-distant future. I was extremely lucky to have recently fallen in with Ed Saperia, who runs the Salon d’Été. From the beginning the idea was to create a much classier e...
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Will Play For Food: September 2010
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Wednesday, 15 September 2010. Don't Bring on the Dancing Girls. Vicki Butterfly: actually rather good. So it's important to pay the strippers but inconceivable that one might pay anything to a band of four or five musicians? Admittedly there is no burlesque equivalent to MP3 downloads (well, apart from videos, I guess), so live performance is de rigeur. Monday, 13 September 2010. A whole new instrument? Afterwards I asked him what the instrument w...
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Will Play For Food: May 2010
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Friday, 21 May 2010. Great origin myths of rock and roll. Following hotly on from yesterday's post (thanks to those who sent me their contributions), the same friend has just emailed with another task. This one I confess I'm struggling with. He wants album titles (exclusively British ones at that) that are seemingly incomprehensible but have an interesting story behind them. Examples he gives are Disraeli Gears. Allegedly slang for sex). A brief s...
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Will Play For Food: Give us a break
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Will Play For Food. Down and out with the Great Unsigned. Monday, 8 November 2010. Give us a break. A hi-hat clutch. Breakable, apparently. But it’s interesting how these trends seem to affect even the most mundane aspects of gigging in the world of the Great Unsigned. At the time it never occurred to me to wonder if it would have been the end of the world if they had simply all used the same equipment. 169; michael s marks. The Furbelows on stage this Halloween. Mark was not. I don’t know who firs...
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