Author Topic: Big Tuna (Read 449 times)

jacko · « **on:** March 01, 2010, 04:18:45 AM »

After a two month 'rest' following the birth of our drummer's daughter, we'll be back on the bandstand this friday at the Brighton's Inn in Polmont. I guess only Georgie boy will be close enough to maybe pop in but you never know ;-) The show starts at 10pm.
No gig pics so here's one of my wife and I with a 2 week old Stella langlands Shaw...

Graeme

jazzyvee · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2010, 03:21:05 PM »

I see you are trying to catch me up with the grey hairs in that beard but you are currently losing the race. hahaha.

I hope Sella grows up safe and healthy.

Jazyvee

serialnumber12 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2010, 05:36:38 PM »

damn......i wish i was a Baby again!!!

jacko · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2010, 01:00:52 AM »

After holding Stella for a while, Sandra was wishing she was ours! After having three of our own I'm just glad we can hand her back ;-)

Graeme

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2010, 07:29:46 AM »

Congratulations to your drummer and his expanded family, she's a beautiful girl. Play well and make moving music on Friday.
Mike

jacko · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2010, 04:12:29 AM »

2 private gigs this weekend, a wedding on saturday and a corporate do on sunday. Even though they're well paid, I'd much rather be playing pubs and clubs where the band are the focal point - I always feel like I have to hold back when it's a private party.

Graeme

wylie_j · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2010, 05:00:08 AM »

Hey Graeme/Jacko Congrats with the new baby girl make sure u take lots of pictures coz they grow up very fast from ur new d.o.g. friend downunder Wylie J.

jacko · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2010, 06:51:00 AM »

Hey Wylie. She's our drummer's girl, we just had to hold her for a while. My kids are pretty much all grown now - 17, 19 and 22.

Graeme

jacko · « **Reply #8 on:** April 09, 2010, 03:32:42 AM »

Friday 16th we'll be back at PJ Molloy's in Dunfermline. This is a great rock venue - decent PA, stage, lights etc and it'll be great playing to an audience who've come to see the band, not the bride ;-)

Graeme

jacko · « **Reply #9 on:** May 05, 2010, 04:03:56 AM »

Well, we've played several more weddings since the last update (with many more wedding bookings to come). The most unusual (and also the most recent) took place near Ayr where we were surprised when finishing the first set (with the rather apt 'pump it up') to be unexpectedly joined on the bandstand by the local pipe band led by the bride's father...

I think it's safe to say that they were much louder than us!!

More weddings to come but we've not forgotten our roots so we'll be playing more pub gigs throughout the summer including a return trip to the Isle of Skye where we had a great weekend last august. One gig I'm looking forward to is my youngest daughter's 18th this june - it'll give me loads of opportunities to embarass her in front of her friends ;-)

Graeme

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 05, 2010, 12:00:44 PM »

Very Cool! That must have been fun. I love musical variety...

There's nothing quite as satisfying as embarrassing the offsprings...

(That could be a Monty Python line)

Mike

jacko · « **Reply #11 on:** May 25, 2010, 04:34:13 AM »

In amongst the weddings, we're also playing a few corporate events. These pics are from a Marketing society awards ceremony we played at Edinburgh's Corn exchange..

We played a single 90 minute set to close the night - this caused havoc with my developing Carpal Tunnel. graeme

jacko · « **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2010, 04:51:05 AM »

We played my youngest daughter Heather's 18th birthday party this past saturday. I got to play both my Signature deluxe and my fretless rogue....

Back to paying gigs in a week or so - 3rd July we'll be at Behind the Wall in Falkirk 9th July is a wedding near Glasgow 17th July is a wedding in Alloa 20th August behind the wall falkirk 27th & 28th August - the Portree Hotel, Isle of Skye. graeme

David Houck · « **Reply #13 on:** June 22, 2010, 07:30:21 AM »

Great pics!

lbpesq · « **Reply #14 on:** June 22, 2010, 08:50:12 AM »

Graeme:

Lucky you! My 15 year old wouldn't be caught dead having my old fart band play our music from the olden days at one of his parties! He did recently tell me he had heard a couple of bands from my time that were better than the stuff I listen to, (Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Band, etc.), and the asked me if I'd ever heard of Metallica or AC/DC! I think I blew him away when I told him that Metallica used to practice in a garage in El Cerrito just a few houses down from where my band, Norman Carburetor used to practice.

Bill, tgo