Strawhenge gig in King's Somborne

After the Hamper Ball 09 gig and the Romsey xmas do 2009 gig, we were invited to participate in a mini-woodstock of England which was held in King's Somborne Hampshire and they called the event as Strawhenge. The participants wore a hippie costume and they put up tent, campfire, a trailer truck stage where the bands performed. It was such a fun night.

There were a lot of bands who listed but during the event there was only two bands who showed up, it was us "The Hampered Ball" and another band which was a Ska Band that I can't remember the name of the group. Then a solo singer called "Dan the Man" and then group of girls who performed a dance medley.

With this gig we had additional bandmates, Lofel was pregnant so she couldn't do the backing vocals and Beth joined the group. Then, Ali's friend Marcus joined us and played the keyboards. He was using a Casio portable electric piano. The band's setup initially during sound check were, Mike's Ibanez plugged into his 60watt amp and he was using two boss stompbox, a distortion and stereo chorus. I was using Lyon strat by Washburn into Digitech RP55 plugged into Hohner's 15watt Panther practise amp, Dave's bass into his Behringer ultrabass amp 30watt and Marcus's Casio electric piano was plugged into Mike's guitar amp channel 1. Ali was using his Pearl drumkit with nice set of Zildjan cymbals and Gibraltar hardware. All vocals was plugged into my Behringer K450FX as our portable PA system.

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