Gig log, Footbal Club Aberystwyth 23rd Feb 2008, 18th

0:00 Fantastic, see you in a minute

All right folks, Jonathan here. I'm on the way to the football club in Aberystwyth to do a 21st birthday party. As usual all you know is that you're going to have loads of people wanting to enjoy themselves, a wide variety in age group and also there is going to be a band playing tonight so that should be quite interesting. Anyway, on the way there it's getting dark And the nights are getting shorter and the days are getting longer. Fantastic, see you in a minute. Alright, where are you from then folks? Homeslice. What's your name sir, where are you from? What's your name and where did you come from? My name is Edward. Yes. And I live in... Okay, how about you? I'm Chris and I'm from Amherst. My name's Mickey Mouse and I'm from Disneyland. I'm Bill and I'm from Palo. I'm Andy and I'm from London. I'm Tori and I'm from Dorset! So, you come here like sort of for the evening for a couple of days or just to generally come here for like a couple of hours and go at the peer pressure? Typical. You're hungry, alright. Tom's always hungry. So Anzap, who's in the band here? Alright, what do you play in the band? Guitar.

How about you? Bass guitar. And? I sing. Alright, if you need a drummer, I play drums as well actually. What's the band called? My favourite runner-up. And what sort of music do you play? Jazz. Jazz? No, you play sort of a punk, indie, jazz, soulful hip-hop style with an element of grunge. Just jazz. No, we're death metal. Hardcore death metal. You know why they're called death metal? It's because after playing it so loud, you end up being bloody deaf. Oh, never mind. Well, here we go. We're in Aberystwyth. And we're in the football club with lots of balloons on the floor. Right, let's stick around. Pink balloons! Yeah, it's a bloke's birthday. I've got one of those there. Another laser and that lovely little laser. Brian's got one and I got one now mate. Now I do like that. I put that on earlier on and everyone went, ooh, that's good.

2:36 Inch compression, compression drivers, these

Now these guys here, I don't know if you can see, but check that out, Cam Vortex. Now I have already opened the bass cab up and I'm going to do that in another video later on. And there was this speaker in there that was about the size of a dinner plate, with a magnet that is. And that just says, I wouldn't say quality to me, it just means at least a big magnet means a lot of heat can be dispersed which of course In turn means a relatively good speaker and quality wise these aren't bad actually, I like them. Here's the back so what you do is you go in, input you can see and out and then you shake the cable all about and you can go then into the mid top cabs. These are 15 and horn one inch compression drivers, I think they're one inch compression drivers, I'll have a look. 8 ohms 250 watts continual 1000 watt peak.

8:56 Just gotta stop the camera for a second

So we'll give them a run for their money later on. That is a good microphone, the Shure SM58. That is the industry standard. If anyone disagrees with me, I suggest you're not really a musician. Zildjian, good mate. Marshall. And Zibooz. Pictures. And I'm right next to the bass mums. First impressions of those is they've got potential. That's all I'm going to say at the moment. They've got potential. And that is quite a slick looking 15 inch bass comb. Very slick. Folks, that was funny. I've just been stopped by the police and they did say that I had one brake light out on the back which I didn't know about. But anyway, got stopped and it was like, hello my name is Jonathan Lewis, I'm from so-and-so, I explained all the details, gave them exactly what they want to know, and they end up looking at me as always a complete nutter, which is quite correct, and they let me go. Just gotta stop the camera for a second. I just had to pause the camera for a second. Oh shit, right, it's going all over the place. As you can see, I just stick that and I don't... Nine times out of ten I don't touch that thing. But anyway, as you can see, tonight I used some new kit. The actual PA...

He also covers bass cabs and cabs. They're known as Vortex speakers. Now, my honest opinion so far, because at the end of the day I've only used them once, so I can't go out and say, oh they're the best thing since sliced bread, because I'd be stupid to say that, because you never know, three weeks later they could fall apart for all I know. I doubt if they will, but you never know. We're in the, by the way it was an 18th, I might have said a 21st, but it's an 18th birthday party. Not many people, but as usual, how it should be, if you've only got a small group of, theoretically, you've got to, when I say work harder, but you've got to make sure that they enjoy themselves. Two or three hundred people and you can have 50 people enjoying themselves and the other 250 will just go along with the flow because it's so busy.

When you've got not many people, you have to work harder to make sure those people enjoy themselves. And if you can make them enjoy themselves, they will look at you and think, yeah, you did a good job. Alright, thanks for watching, practice and enjoy!

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