Wedding Gig Scrapbook (Summer 2015)
Apologies [once more] for sporadic posting, events are [yet again] beyond one’s control.
Photos from various weddings featuring Callanish, Rear View Band, and a fish in a glass box.
Ghost of Bongo @TheMooringsBar Aberdeen Friday 7th November
Ghost of Bongo are playing @TheMooringsBar, Aberdeen
Friday 7th November
@CallanishMusic Play Dundas Castle
Dave Mackay Band
Too much fun can be had with 3 naughty boys and some wood ;-p
Engineering @ The Moorings Bar (Aberdeen)
A dream comes true, engineering at my favourite venue of my whole music career.
An actual win 🙂
Movin’ Melvin Brown @edfringe
Movin’ Melvin Brown (@movinmelvin) is in Edinburgh for the Festival.
Playing bass on the following dates for his 2 shows
The Ray Charles Experience – August 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th
The Tap Dancing Preacher – August 12th, 14th, 16th, 28th
@CallanishMusic Play Selwyn College Cambridge
Apologies for sporadic posting, events are beyond one’s control.
@CallanishMusic Play St. Andrews (New Golf Club)
Lovely Venue, many thanks to staff at The New Golf Club Hotel, 1st class professionals throughout.
International guests for an evening of ceilidh, traditional, and contemporary Scottish music.
Goings-on as Bassist for Fisso Musica
A productive weekend for the Fisso Musica outfit, with acoustic recordings of Emily Atkinson, our new singing talent, on Saturday using the ever-skilful services of Guitarist and engineer Gavin Wiltshire. Followed by a full-band recording the very next day! Well done friends, great work and the results so far make for exciting listening.
Gavin and I had discussed previously and at length that we should aim to achieve both a much fuller sound and polished performance than the hundreds of performances we have seen and indeed been part of over the last few years.
So my thanks to Scott Galbraith, Emily Atkinson and Brian Macleod for your recent efforts; for the first time in a while I can feel a real sense of achievement in this corner of my musical activities, and I’m very happy to have had a good feeling grow into a good vibe, cheers folks.
Gav, well done bud, as ever.
Also playing trumpet for Rear View Music Scotland now
Please give a like to these fine folks if you can, a hard working bunch I have recently joined as a trumpet player.
http://www.edinburghfunctionband.co.uk/
Wedding Bells @CallanishMusic Play The Debating Hall – Teviot
@CallanishMusic Play Merchant’s Hall, Edinburgh
@CallanishMusic Play Cottier Theatre
Another Night with @CallanishMusic
EMG For the win :)
Today’s project 🙂
Peavey Grind 6 Customising and EMG Upgrade ptII
Work is pretty much complete on my Peavey Grind 6.
2 EMG Pickups (a 45CS and a 45DC) fitted with surprisingly little effort, and for the nerds I went with an 18v supply, and modified wiring to maintain the original tone/volume control pair.
Peavey Grind 6 Customising & EMG Upgrade
OK so these images document the bulk of the pickup upgrade work done to my Peavey Grind 6.
I purchased the Bass from Red Dog Music store in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, it’s my second one, on purpose, because I love them; my friend and fellow Bassist Duncan Roscoe now owns my original one.
I also purchased some EMG pickups a 45CS and a 45DC, as did he, and then we set about our instruments.
@ Callanish in Ayr – Ceilidh!
IN MIRRORS LIVE @THE CAVES: LIVE ALBUM RECORDING with TITUS PULLO
These guys are some of my favourites to come out of Edinburgh recently.
I’m very excited to see this gig 🙂
Plus I’m being a Roadie!!!
Alley Piano
The Garden this morning
Lilly by Luke & James
A work in progress by my 8yr old guitar pupils, they like to write tunes then add their guitar / keyboard parts over them – amazing guys!!
Toys for the Ghost of Bongo Boys
So Saturday sees the eagerly anticipated (by myself and at least one other person I know of) reanimation of the Ghost of Bongo, if only in the form of a weekend jam session in Edinburgh.
Fat Hands (Colin Austin) our esteemed keyboardist has shown his hand and it looks very exciting 🙂
Here then is (most of) what I shall be bringing to the rehearsal rooms of Bainbridge Music this Saturday:
looking forward to posting the results of our efforts this weekend, see you soon!
