Last week on Thursday, Good Weather Girl played a set at the fairly new venue of Nambucca on Holloway Road in London’s East end.
The show was only booked two weeks before we played it, so i wasn’t sure we would have enough time to promote it properly and tell everyone we were playing, but we were pleasantly surprised by the number of people who turned out to support us, if you are one of those people, a massive-huge thankyou for coming!!
We played with some great bands that night as well, The Gentle Italian, She Hit Me First , and The Palace of Justice all played great sets and are well worth a look!
The really lovely thing about this show is the atmosphere created in and around the venue by not only the people who came to see the bands play but the bands themselves, there were lots of genuinely nice people present and i havent’ had a night like this for a long time, where i’ve had so many lovely conversation with complete strangers, you could also see the bleed over between friends of the bands and the bands themselves all integrating and meeting each other and introducing themselves. One of my favourite things about live music and playing in a band is the fact i am constantly meeting new (often wonderful) people, something that makes any amount of difficulty totally worth it, and to see other people i know make new friends is just awesome.
We were really happy with our set that night, even though Bea’s Bass pedal somehow managed to explode halfway through a song, The Palace of Justice came to our rescue and let us borrow theres, i think it’s okay now, i think everything had just been shaken a bit loose and wasn’t ready for the brutal assault it endured!
On the Saturday after the show i filmed a short video of me talking about various subjects to do with the guitar and my playing of it within Good Weather Girl, talking about influences to my style of play, early days of learning how to play and so on, it’s up on our Youtube channel here, so please feel free to check it out and let me know what you think! Any feedbac at all would be much appreciated! I will probably be doing more Videos in the future and refining my technique a little bit! But i had a great time putting it together and i’m really glad that people have liked it (and even found it useful!) so far!
We are currently booking more shows, so keep an eye out and watch this Space, you’ll be hearing a lot more from us soon..
So what is life without dancing in the street? Self awareness is a cruel sickness and from time to time I suffer from it quite terribly, but only when in the company of certain people. I have been asked before when about to go on stage at a show “Are you nervous?” to which I always reply “When I’m on stage is the only time that I’m not nervous”, I don’t really understand why that is how it is, I just feel absolute joy when performing, like Michael Jackson once said “On stage, I’m safe. I’d sleep on stage if I could”.
