FREEBASS Warm-Up Gig YORK Mon 31st

Bank Hol Mon @ Fibbers (now called Dutchess...ticketweb...Top gen ere boys n girls, amazing what you find when your trawling the net. Yes for ten £ They are playing a warm up gig for London 100 club. Suppose its officially the 1st gig. Obviously im in sorted already, afternoon on lash n last train back up to Darlo. Any one coming out to play.. Go on :\party:

I did get it wrong my mistake nevermind the spelling -Freebass at York get it on

El Jarvo wrote: It's not Freebass, it's Freebase.

John Cimmerman said so here.

..and it's the Dutchess not the Duchess, Andy said so. Smoke and a Pancake?

Sorry, birdwatching.

oh well done john for spotting earlier, JT you need to reduce the amount of tits you observe my boy

Was up in your neck of the woods yesterday after some Blackcock.

Andrew Sayer wrote: Bank Hol Mon @ Fibbers (now called Dutchess...ticketweb...Top gen ere boys n girls, amazing what you find when your trawling the net. Yes for ten £ They are playing a warm up gig for London 100 club. Suppose its officially the 1st gig. Obviously im in sorted already, afternoon on lash n last train back up to Darlo. Any one coming out to play.. Go on :\party:

just to confirm the gig is at the duchess in york which is a seperate venue to fibbers (which is still open and is actually near enough next door). Bit confusing as the duchess (a converted snooker hall) is ran by the guy that used to run fibbers and also the duchess in leeds (which is now closed).

anyway should be good :)

Andrew Sayer wrote: Bank Hol Mon @ Fibbers (now called Dutchess...ticketweb...Top gen ere boys n girls, amazing what you find when your trawling the net. Yes for ten £ They are playing a warm up gig for London 100 club. Suppose its officially the 1st gig. Obviously im in sorted already, afternoon on lash n last train back up to Darlo. Any one coming out to play.. Go on :\party:

Fuckern right aye Andrew. Daft tenner,just down the road.I'm there,sorted.

Me and Alex will be at this

anyone want to meet pre gig?

• The Stone Roses Bar.

http://stonerosesbaryork.com/STONE%20ROSES/WEBSITE%20SR/contact.html

4 of us Darlo training down for a swill, & will be catching up with Jem n Alex so will be around. I dont think i've ever met you 'Chipie' or 'John Cimmerman'

P.S See You Boaty Boro Boy

chipie wrote:

Bit confusing as the duchess (a converted snooker hall) is ran by the guy that used to run fibbers and also the duchess in leeds (which is now closed).

So the "Duchess of York" is now actually in York, as opposed to Leeds? Anyway, looking forward to reports from this gig!

Got my ticket last minute - haven't heard the album yet so going in a bit blind but should be good

Just rang the Venue and they said Freebass will hit the stage around 9.30pm - any chance of a JD or NO cover tonight do you reckon?

Well a good night at the Duchess, a cracking little venue! Here is the info I have on the gig with my limited knowledge!

The band lineup was: Hooky, Mani, Gary Briggs (singer), Drummer (is that Lead Foot?) + another guitarist.

No Andy Rourke, apparently stuck in New York which Hooky found quite funny as they were playing in York!

A nice t-shirt was for sale £20 - Freebass it's a beautiful life on the front with UK Tour dates on the back - a couple of people got these signed by Hooky and Mani. I was hoping they would be selling the CD but no....

Came on about 10pm and played for an hour - no encore. Played 11 tracks.

Gary was pretty good, a couple of tracks reminded me of Ian, the way he draped over the microphone.

Set List - Sorry haven't got the album so don't know the track names apart from some obvious ones, I'm sure someone will be able to complete.

1 - ????? 2 - Not too late 3 - The Only Ones Alone 4 - Lost Myself???? 5 - Standing???? 6 - I've Become??? 7 - World Won't Wait 8 - Secret & Lies 9 - Good Times / Need to Know???? 10 - See the light anymore???? 11 - She Said

In summary, well worth seeing, minor disappointment that there wasn't any JD or NO tracks i.e. BL style of gig, however this is a new band and not just Hooky's so fair enough. I will buy the album but still holding out for the CD!!!!

I suppose without Andy Rourke - they were technically Twobass!!!

Good gig, I thought the singer gary has a really good voice live, hooky and mani's looked well into it. Not too much banter inbetween songs although someone shouted LWTUA to which hooky said Cant you read what it say on the f**king door or something to that effect. Shame no andy rourke though, could get them done under trade description act ;)

Hello plebs, us four saddos got down early (4pm) good pre-swill in the aft, bumped into Mani n Gary in that tacky Stone Roses bar earlier, very friendly. Well i reckon no more than 200 there, but nice to see a couple of faces. Somehow ended up next to Alex by the speaker rig so had to insert the old tampon in the ear lark. Hooky played that red 6 string bass all night. He wears more finger jewellery than a pikey. Band were rather jovial n 'up for it'. Played most of the album only louder n less jingly-jangly that than on mp3. Cannot remember that reggae tune but finished with Dark Star. Glad they didnt resort to covers. Still not bad for a £13 all in, fcuking train was more than that. Suppose i'll go to Boro' on Sun as its free.

Great show sound better live than the cd

Send me your name and address and i will copy my Freebass cd for you and send a copy

Like No Other wrote: Drummer (is that Lead Foot?)

er.....NO his name is Bo Walsh, plays with Gabs Wish the othe guitarist is Nat Wason, haven/strays, TOP guitarist

ally wrote: Spose we'll find out more after folk get back from the 100 Club tonight

bag o shite... Was a good night til we entered the venue. Was alright afterwards. Was good seeing 79 order.

what was so bad about it?

[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote: what was so bad about it?

the music

wow.. how insightful.

It wasn't shite, but it wasn't particularly memorable either, but then I hadn't heard any of the songs before the show at the 100 Club the other night, its always going to be difficult playing totally new stuff to a crowd, particularly when the reason most people had paid money to see the show were bassists, not vocalists or guitarists. Don't know if I'd bother getting the CD of the album when its supposed to come out later in the year, but what I heard was certainly no worse than Bad Lieutenants own new stuff.

My main concern was Mani, he looked totally knackered two tunes in, I hope he's in a better state for the Screamadelica gigs at the end of the year...

Thanks to John, I've filled in some of the gaps on the set list:

1 - Plan B 2 - Not too late 3 - The Only Ones Alone 4 - Lady Violence 5 - Standing???? 6 - Kill Switch pt. 141 7 - World Won't Wait 8 - Secret & Lies 9 - Good Times / Need to Know???? 10 - The God Machine 11 - She Said

Just two tracks need completing - I presume one was Sister Surrender and the other? Anyone know anything about Sister Surrender?

Like No Other wrote: Thanks to John, I've filled in some of the gaps on the set list:

1 - Plan B 2 - Not too late 3 - The Only Ones Alone 4 - Lady Violence 5 - Standing???? 6 - Kill Switch pt. 141 7 - World Won't Wait 8 - Secret & Lies 9 - Good Times / Need to Know???? 10 - The God Machine 11 - She Said

Just two tracks need completing - I presume one was Sister Surrender and the other? Anyone know anything about Sister Surrender?

As i've already said, they finished with Dark Starr (off of the EP)