Romsey 2010 Filipino Xmas Do

We had a lot of fun during this gig especially that the band really gel together after the two-set gig at Strawhenge Festival in King's Somborne. We had a lot of songs to choose from from Pink Floyd to The Who and Deep Purple to Dire Straits. Also we did Breakfast at Tiffany's, Walking on sunshine, A little respect, Stand by me and even Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

The only downside during this gig was Crossfield Hall where the Xmas Do was held, they got a sound meter and we were adjusting our volume time and again and we're very cautious that it trip the power and stall our gig. Apart from that the crowd loved us and really enjoyed our music.

To top it all up, the food was excellent. Not only us but our guests as well enjoyed the food. Oh, I remembered Beth took a pudding and did not realize it was a pudding until she started eating eat. I think it was Buko Pandan.

We had the same setup, Ali's Pearl drum kit, Dave's Thunderbird Bass plugged into his Beringer ultra bass amp, Mike's Ibanez electric guitar, two boss foot pedal a stereo chorus and a distortion, and he uses his Fender 12 string acoustic for rhythm and were both plugged into his 60 watt vintage amp, my Lyon black start into a 15watt Hohner Panther guitar amp using my Digitech RP55 multieffects processor and my Beringer K450FX as our monitor and we used my Shure C606 mic along side my Peavey mic bundle and we were connected to Julius' PA system. Beth was our female lead vocals as well as backing vocals on other songs.

Here's a sample video of how we look and sound like.

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