Us doing Campy Things.
Yes,we totally underestimated the amount of beer needed to make it through the hottest weekend so far this summer. So Colin and I made a harrowing journey on foot to the closest beer store. It was a 1000 mile trek fraught with danger, despair and more than a little sweat, but we managed to make it back without consuming any of the four 20 packs of Lucky Lager.
Just some shots of the people. enjoy!
Celtic with a brassy twist. These guys had the crowd hopping from song one. Definitely see them if you get a chance!
The final show on Sunday night featured none other than Littlefeat, and what a show it was! One of the best rock concerts I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of em. The 20 minute version of “Dixie Chicken” was, to say the least, plump full of juicy awesomeness. Near the end they brought out Richie Hayward, founding member and long time drummer.Though suffering from liver cancer, he still managed to get on the drums and pound the skins.
update…
Sadly, Richard Hayward passed away in early August. I feel profoundly blessed that I was able to see him perform in public that one last time.
My condolences to his family and friends.
Spent the weekend at the Vancouver Island Music Fest for three days of excellent music, and I am just now editing the 1511 pictures I took.
Here is gallery number 1
The Adrian Belew Power Trio rocked the center stage so hard, they blew the power! (not really their fault, the sound systems were a little buggy all weekend.) But man did they ROCK. Considering this little shindig is considered a Folk Fest, these three musicians blew everyone away with their experimental power rock. I did not know who these folks were until they started playing. My first thought was “Need to get into the beer garden to continue to kill my brain with Lager” quickly followed buy ” Wow! This really reminds me of the style of guitar I remember from King Crimson’s album ‘Discipline’ ”
This is when someone even drunker than I was stated that Adrian Belew actually played on that album! I was flabbergasted…what ever that means. I then actually left the safety of the overcrowded and full of drunk smelly campers beer garden to take some pics.
Enjoy!
If you want to see the “full screen” slideshow click on the “view in slideshow” and run your mouse over the picture. An option bar pops up with the fullscreen button on the right….. no! your other right! (thats aimed at the people I was there with…. =8-] )
There are more pics of these folks to come so stay tuned!
Pictures from May 29th gig at the Harewood Arms featuring Littlehead and friends
I originally submitted this to helium a while back.
Okay, your band is tight, you are preforming well, nobody has thrown anything at you on stage for quite a while and you are getting rave local reviews. You’ve even got some video up on MySpace and YouTube, what now? What more can you do to get your name out there?
Why not a band website?
“Ack!” you scream “I know absolutely nothing about web design, hosting sites, or even personal hygiene!”
Well fear not my hairy half deaf friends, I’m here to show you the way. (well except the personal hygiene thing, your on your own with that)
I’ve done a few web sites over the years and contributed to more, and I found that I really hate coding with a passion , so being the lazy-ass hairless monkey that I am, I went in search of an easier way to get things done.
I found it!
Its a site called “Bandzoogle” at http://www.bandzoogle.com
This is a hosting site designed by musicians, for musicians. Its the coolest thing I’ve seen.
Here you can create your band site without having to know anything about HTML, everything is pre-coded, you just sign up, go to your personal control panel, and start setting it up the way you want. Anything you could ever need for your site is there, included a site wide mp3 player, so that people visiting your site can hear your tunes while perusing your pages.
Here are just some of the features…
Selectable page styles..
Here you can change the whole look and feel of all the pages on your site without losing any of your content, this changes the backgrounds, fonts, link styles. But leaves anything you’ve written or uploaded untouched.
Music store…
Want to sell mp3′s directly from your site? This is the tool to do it.
Merchandise store…
Sell your cd’s, hats, band logo underwear, t-shirts, jackets, sippy cups, anything
Photo albums…
Upload pictures from your latest gigs for your fans to see.
Guest book…
Let your fans give you some feedback.(without them being close enough to hit you with anything)
Coming events…
Let everyone know where and when you are playing, even links to google maps!
Forums..
Set up a discussion forum so that you and your fans can communicate with each other.
Like I said, these are just a small sampling of the features this site offers. They’ll let you try it out free for thirty days, and the pricing isn’t crazy. I took the premium package, and at 19.95/month split between the band members means a quality band site for 5 $. Well worth it.
So stomp on over to this site and check out what they have to offer. Peruse some of the sample sites that they showcase, I think you’ll be impressed. (and no, I have absolutely nothing to do with the site other than hosting my buddies band littlehead.ca there. I just think its a good thing for all you crazy musicians)
Cheers!
Keep on Rockin’
