tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86376722011-07-31T12:21:05.344+09:30The Negotiators are a Rock Band doing the suburban rounds in Adelaide, South Australia. This is one of our web homes. We’ve been gigging since 1999, when we were known as Requiem. We love what we do.Adelaide Gamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02052999343460635401noreply@blogger.comBlogger1251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637672.post-52625318986368578902011-07-31T12:16:00.003+09:302011-07-31T12:21:05.352+09:30

Nancy has been playing with a 'weekend warriors' outfit for the past six or so weeks. They are playing a gig this weekend (Sunday the Seventh of August, 2011) at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on Port Road. The show is from about 1pm, five 'weekend warrior' bands, $15 entry.On Friday night, apparently, the band she's is in 'clicked' into gear and started to belt it out. I think some of them were

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ACDC played in town at Adelaide Oval, a lovely cricket ground surrounded by pavilions, surrounded by expanses of public parklands and a river, overlooked by our most prominent cathedral. A cultural event. 42000 in the grounds, probably about 6000 or more scattered in mini-crowds in different convenient locations in the surrounding parklands or river bank. The cathedral was ringing its bells as

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It's been almost a year since I last posted here. Nancy hasn't sung in the duo for several months as Steve's other interests meant he wasn't interested any more. I just bumped into Garry who plays in Harvest who are the band Steve had been playing in, apparently they are still going fairly strong. In our busiest year we played 22 or 26 gigs, they are playing over 30. Good luck to them.Me and the

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Frolik are playing Sunday 3rd at the Sandy Creek Hotel from 2pm.Sandy Creek is about 15km outside of Gawler on the Lyndoch/Tanunda Road. Don't blink...

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Frolik has been quite busy since I last posted. They've played twice at the Cumberland, and also at Burra and Rynie in the country. By all accounts, enjoyable gigs.This Friday the 13th they play at the Freeling Hotel from around 8 pm. The Freeling mob like them and there's a few heading up from Adelaide so it promises to be a good night.

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Nancy and Steve played up the Burra Hotel again on Friday Night. I tagged along, managed to get a couple of videos at short notice. That's why the lighting is pretty crap. You might want to darken you room before watching the videos below.Chasing Cars (first set) In the second and third sets the pub filled up and Nancy and Steve cut loose. Four hours later and it was only the regulars left. I

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It is my pleasure to keep you up to date with where and when Nancy and Steve will be playing with their class duo act in the near future. Put the dates in your diary and check them out if you get the chance...Upcoming Folik Gigs29 February - Excelsior Hotel, Brompton 7:30 - 11:002 March - Cumberland Hotel, Glanville 4 - 86 April - Cumberland Hotel, Glanville 4 - 825 May - Cumberland Hotel,

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The Negotiators finally folded, rather than put off an inevitable slide into obscurity we took the plunge!There was a brief coda when Nancy Steve and myself joined up with Mark (drums) and Garry (bass) under the banner of The Haze to play at Greg's 50th in early December 2007. I think it was a pretty fun gig, perhaps my last.If we get together an original band, which is the eventual plan, we'll

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Nancy and Steve have, with the recent demise of The Negotiators, renamed their duo act. They are now known as 'Frolic'. I hope to keep you all updated with where and when they will be playing.I went up and watched them play at Burra on September 14. Amazingly, I wasn't the only one to make the trip up from Adelaide just for the occasion! There were a total of five of us. Not bad for a duo to have

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Hold onto your seat.The Negotiators are dissolving (have dissolved, actually, by the time this post was actually posted). Outside interests, other commitments, musical evolution, all played their role in the eventual process. Maybe we'll talk about it one day...But it's not all over. Nancy and Steve still play in the Negotiators Duo. Click here for details of their next gig at the Excelsior on

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The Negotiators Duo is playing next at The Excelsior Hotel, Hawker Street, Brompton on August 31st. They kick off at around 7:30 pm. Stumps is usually by midnight. Good Friday night out.And if you didn't know, the food there is pretty good in quantity and quality for a reasonable price (and no, I don't get anything for the plug - I've just enjoyed the couple of meals I've had there).

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We had a rehersal session this arvo. Together about three and a half hours with two decent breaks. No new material as such (except for an impromptu 'Black is Black'(! )). Ran through Lady Bug Love for the first time in a year - very jazz.Jean Jeanie, Tear Us Apart, Time of Our Lives, Whole Lotta Love, Evie (Pt 1), R U Gonna Be My Girl, Paint it Black, It's Only Rock'n'Roll, Honky Tonk Woman, I

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The Duo played last Friday at The Excelsior Hotel (Brompton) and on Saturday at the Hamley Bridge Hotel. Both gigs sounded like they pulled off okay.I was there before the start at The Excelsior and there were about three dozen in the pub already. Sounds like it didn't drop beneath that in numbers for the whole night, some of the new songs Steve and Nancy introduced sounded like they went down

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The Duo (Nancy and Steve) play at the Excelsior Hotel, Brompton, this Friday Night. Bit of a party with some of those who were at The Finsbury Hotel last Saturday with The Negoitators.Then, on Saturday, they play at the Hamley Bridge Hotel, Hamley Bridge. It's about an hour the other side of Gawler from Adelaide. Good country pub rockin'!

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On Saturday night The Negotiators played in the Brewbar at the Finnsury Hotel. It was a private show put on to celebrate 'Craig's' fortieth birthday. If the last gig was 5/10, I would have put this one a shade over 7. No really bad stuffups, some really good music, an audience partying on and the band having fun. Mixed in with that, cameos and audience interaction, nice venue, decent hours (7:45

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I guess this is something of a milestone, like the thousandth post or something. Has taken me about three years, and the biggest batch of viewers has come over the most recent year. I seem to have shaken off the statcounter on this blog, so I actually don't have a clue at the moment about who is looking at what for how long. And you know what?I don't care.The fact that YOU are reading this is

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As I write this I'm watching the light play on the Adelaide Hills as the sun sets on Saturday 23 June. The Negotiators play at the Finsbury for someone's fortieth later this evening. Private show.I spent a couple hours this afternoon helping steve get the band's gear down to the pub. It's a pretty big job for one person so I was pleased to assist. I got to his place around 2:30, and the last of

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I've just got home after a four hour rehersal with the band. It was a good session. We worked through a bit of new material and brushed up the worst of what we did at Club 168 (for a gig report, click here). Sharon stayed for part of the afternoon, she was also of the opinion that this sounded much more like us (and much more likable generally).This is important as there was a bit of a mixed

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Steve and Nancy ('The Negotiators Duo') play at the Burra Hotel (again) from about 8pm on Friay night, 8 June.They always seem to have a great time there, and the crowd seems to be consistently large. I think the locals appreciate the fact they have an act of this performative character play at their mid-north local. I hear there's a few of our suburban friends/fans heading up for the night also

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On listening to the tape we recorded at our recent performance the ears shuddered at some times, and at others I thought “wow!”. So here’s a little summary of the tape. Hope I don’t offend anyone. Before you read it, however, you should click here to read the report of the gig itself.Set 1Major and dominating problem on the recording, as it was on stage, is the destructively distorted bass

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The Negotiators played at Club 168 in Port Adelaide last night. It was a latish starting gig, we kicked off at 10:15 pm. Played though till just after 2:30 am, four sets and none of the breaks over 20 min. Took about an hour to set up, perhaps 35 min to pack up. We didn't need to bring our lights, the venue had its own setup (though Nancy got to use her new battery powered lyric light).A good

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Nancy seriously electrocuted herself on stage the other night. Don't panic - she's okay.The Negotiators Duo were up at Hamley Bridge gigging at a friend's birthday at the local (for some photos of a previous visit, click here). End of first song, audience settling in, Steve working his gear (I think) and Nancy standing there completing a circuit with full mains power flowing through. For quite a

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Sorry! Sitemeter have been using this blog, and millions of others, to distribute a cookie into viewer's machines - without permission implied or actual to do so. I believe they have now updated their user agreement, but only following a storm of protest. As far as I'm concerned the damage is done, and when I get around to it I'll be removing their stacounter from this site and (perhaps)

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The Negotiators will be gracing the public stage twice in June! This is our long awaited and much sought after return to performing.June 1 - Club 168 Poolhall - upstairs Cnr Vincent/Commercial, Port Adelaide, from 10 pmJune 28 - Finsbury Hotel - Pennington (?)The Negotiators Duo will also be playing soon, out at Hamley Bridge Hotel on May 25th from 9pm.We've been kind of in a holding pattern

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The Negotiators finally got together again on Sunday for a 'practice' (more of a jam, really) at Steve and Jackie's. Played quite a few old classics and a handful of originals from the days of Requiem. There's something that clicks when all five are together that isn't quite there when it's just the four of us. Listening to what we were doing, I could hear that we have grown into a unit. Not a

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...continues.Band waiting to get together again. Seem to have lost the flywheel at present.The Duo plays this Friday night at Excelsior Hotel, Cnr Hawker and Coglin Streets, Brompton. Start around 9. Hamley Bridge Hotel on May25th.

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I just heard on the radio today that Oz Rock Utter Legend Lobby Lloyd passed away. This bloke was the man who gave aussie rock its kick, dragged it through the front bar and gave it one hell of a working over. I'm no coneisseur of guitar, but I know what I like and I liked him.Considering that Billy Thorpe passed away earlier this year, we can see the passing of the Aztecs into legend. Sigh. And

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We had one of our regular, if not frequent, band 'practices' yesterday. Sadly, Nancy had to pull out at the last moment so it was just the guys. Last time this happened the results might have been fun, but probably not too good on the ear. This time Chris was probably the 'lead' singer, and he was pretty good considering...We warmed up with 'Wipeout' (no vocals to scare us off) and then got stuck

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Tomorrow (Easter Sunday) - Jamestown. From around 7.30 pm.April 20 - BurraMay 11 - Excelsior Hotel, Coglin / Hawker Streets, Brompton. From around 9 pm.May 25 - Hamley Bridge Hotel. Probably from around 9pm.Band still in state of semi active hibernation.Sorry about the brevity of this post and this blog in general, things will pick up as the band does.

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This WeekendThis Friday Night (23 March) the Negotiators Duo (Nancy and Steve) play their little duo thing at the Excelsior Hotel on Hawker St in Brompton, I think they start fairly early (like around 7.30). Last time they played their it was by all accounts a good gig. I hear there's a few people planning on going so it might be a relatively biggish show. The things I most recall about the pub

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'The Negotiators Duo' (Steve and Nancy) are playing at Claire, lovely little town in South Australia's Mid-North, this Saturday Night (March 10). They start at around 9.00 pm. I'm not sure which pub it will be at, but there can't be too many! Would be good to see some of you there (knowing, as I do, that you don't mind getting away from the big smoke for a weekend in the country).The band itself

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Slightly Modified Version of the flyer we presently leave with potential patrons.

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The Duo played at Excelsior last Friday, and Burra last night. Both were apparently successful gigs. I've seen some folk who were at the Excelsior and they loved it. I wasn't at Burra, but they played a long gig (1.30 stumps) so that's usually a sign everyone's enjoying themselves.The performed our song 'Fucked Decisions', with a midi track! A 'midi' is an electronic device that allows you

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Steve and Nancy by all accounts put on another ripper show lastnight at the Excelsior Hotel, Brompton. I left just before they kicked off. They played until well after time, and took a heavy loss of equipment due the audience getting too excited. Oh well.We (ie The Negotiators) reherse again tomorrow, Sunday. It's expected to get to 40'C.The Negotiators Duo (Steve and Nancy) will be playing again

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Steve and Nancy at the Hamley Bridge Hotel on Saturday night. Many thanks to all those who came up to support them. Looked to me like everyone had a great time!... Reflective moment...Steve and Nancy play the Excelsior Hotel (Corner Coglin and Hawker Streets, Brompton) this Friday (2/2/07) from about 7.30 pm. They play with a fair bit more guts than any other of the duo acts I've seen over recent

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Nancy and Steve are playing their duo thingy reasonably often at the moment. This Saturday night at the Hamley Bridge Hotel from around 7.30 should be a fun expedition from Adelaide (Hamley Bridge lies a ways out the other side of Gawler). They've played at Burra a couple of times since christmas. Next Friday they play at the Excelsior Hotel, Corner Coglin and Hawker Streets, Brompton, from

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Have a good one!

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To see what I think about Big Brother on Blogger, click here.

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We had another practice session today, albeit without Nancy as she wasn't too well. We've been having 40'C plus for the last couple days, so at 33'C and humid was a day to get your health back.Anyway, it was good fun. Jammed away for a few new songs, Zeppelin, Floyd, Beatles and John Foggerty covers = did pretty good. Should fit a few in the repertoire by next time we play. The foggerty song was

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At rehersal on Sunday we all played together again as a band for the first time in three months. Really, more of a structured jam than a rehersal, it was nice to actually be doing it again. Even at our worst, we weren't that bad. There's a lot of derusting required, but that won't take longer than another session (or, at the most, two). And what we pulled off was more than sufficient for

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Nancy and Steve played their duo number last Friday night at Rosewater FC, where The Negotiators played a cool gig earlier in the year. It was a fundraiser for one of the locals (who was there when the band played) who had a nasty accident. The raised a fair bit of cash and Nancy's vocal chords held up. And it sounds like all enjoyed the evening for what it was.The Negotiators have a full band

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Great News! Nancy has got the provisional all clear from the doc, she can sing again! This is fantastic news, as we can soon get the show on the road again. This will be like a 'reborn' experience I think, hopefully totally refreshed and artistically recharged, The Negotiators will be able to hit the stage with a bang through summer.Hope we didn't lose too many of you in the meantime...

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Readers, fans and band members will all know that The Negotiators have had a bit of break recently. This has been necessary as our singer, Nancy, has had a bit of a sore throat. Which means that we've cancelled quite a few gigs (pissing off a few publicans no doubt) and had almost a total break from rehersing. In my case this has gone one step further, and I've hardly even picked up a guitar for

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We're still waiting for a final opinion from Nancy's doctor as to whether she's fit to sing again. Should know in about three more weeks. Until then, there's not a lot to say.Steve and Nancy went up and played in Burra pub with a friend of Steves doing a lot of the vocals. Although not under the Blondie and Dagwood label they've used before, it's another of those lite MIDI based shows with a guy,

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I have just moved this blog over to the new 'beta' blogger. Hopefully that will allow me to organise the site a bit easier for your convenience, as well as contain a few more features in the interface. So, expect things to change a bit in near future. For now, I'm just glad that nothing crashed.I guess it will give me something to do while we await our return to the stage...

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The Bad News: we can't play at the Cumberland on October 1 as previously advertised. Again, due to Nancy's malady.The Good News: In a month or so it looks like she'll be upto singing again - provided that she doesn't sing until then. So we should have a summer of fun and give this band a real workout.For interest sake: we had a singerless rehersal on Sunday, just nutting out a few issues with

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For several months now I have used the web-based (free) sitemeter to count and measure visits to this blog. Don't worry, it doesn't identify individual computers or people, nor does it give me addresses. It counts site visits and page visits, country and domain, time and date. From all of this I know the following:Nearly 500 visits so far, with an average visit length of just over two and a half

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Is a question some of our friends and fans might be asking, and with due reason. You see, The Negotiators didn't play Friday night, and with only a few hours notice of this there was no way to let you all know. Our most sincere apologies to The Sqluatters Arms also, for leaving them in a bit of a tight spot no doubt.Why did we cancel the gig? Nancy has laryngitis, she is our singer and she and

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Click here for details.

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The Negotiators played the Cumberland Hotel (Glanville) on Sunday, August 20th. It was a good gig, albeit of a different character to most of our recent shows (with the possible exception of that at the Hackney Hotel). Audience was appreciative, publican was happy, we had fun. What more could you ask for?For me, the whole thing was a bit different from normal. Perhaps a narrative of the evening

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We will be playing this Sunday at the Cumberland Hotel, Glaville (near the Port, opposite Glanville railway station). We always play a good gig here (click here, here and here for some recent Cumberland gigs).Playing next at The Squatter's Arms Hotel, Corner Port Road and George St Thebarton, on Friday August 25.To read of our most recent gigs, click here and here.

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This will be our first gig at the Squatters Arms. It would be nice to see a few familiar faces. We usually do pretty good when we first play a venue (for example, Rosewater F.C. and the Hackney Hotel gigs of this year). Would be great to see you there!Corner of George St and Port Road, Thebarton. Near the Coke factory.

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For a full report of our great evening at Rosewater Footy Club, click here.Having Sharon be responsible for the sound, and act as a bit of a shepherd of eagre punters at the front of the dance floor was a great bonus. It allows the band confidence to keep focused even when all around is getting pretty chaotically crazy.Only issues of sound (all corrected) were that the drums sounded muffled (

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The Negotiators played the Rosewater Footy Club last night. It was a great gig. We debuted about 10 songs and the new lighting set up, playing four strong sets to a loud and woolly crowd. There were numerous highlights, of which I'll try and record a few here. Of course, you had to be there.The day started with Steve and I moving the bulk of the gear in during the final quarter of the footy game,

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The Negotiators play at Rosewater Footy Club this Saturday, August 12, from 7.30 (click here for more details) Awsome BeatlesJust a wee note to say that I think the Beatles were pretty awesome. When you look at the volume of music they produced, how well much of it is produced, how good so much of it is, and how they held it together for so long, it's just boggling.Why do I say this?At rehersal

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It's been four years since we played at a football club, so we are looking forward to this. After bludgeoning our way through what could have been a hard gig at the Gaslight in July, we will be hoping to do our bit towards making this one of those magic gigs which make playing in a band addictive.Dates after that include (at this stage):Aug 20 Cumberland HotelAug 25 Squatter's Arms HotelOct 1

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The Negotiators played at the Gaslight Tavern last night. It was a cold wet winter night and audience numbers reflected this. I don't think the show was a 'bad' one, but we have certainly done better.Numbers were way down from the last time we played a full gig at the Gaslight. There were 13 people in the audience when we started. This peaked at around 20, and there were 8 still there when we

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The Negotiators play the Gaslight Tavern this Saturday from 9.00 pm. Click here for detailsAs we often do not long before a gig, The Negotiators rocked up as a band at the Gaslight Tavern last night for the regular Thursday Jam. We were first band of jammers onto stage after the 'house band', Overdrive, had played an opening set. I think there were around forty people there, and a vox pop

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The Negotiators are playing the Gaslight Tavern, Brompton, on 15 July. Click here for details.Blondie and Dagwood (aka Nancy and Steve) debuted at The Port Admiral Hotel, Port Adelaide, today - Sunday 1 July 2006. It was a gig Steve had previously booked as part of his 'Brothers in Arms' duo project with Barry (not our bass player, but

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July 15, Gaslight Hotel, Brompton.For a report on our most recent gig, click here.To read about the last time we played at the Gaslight, click here.We start playing at 9:00 pm.

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As promised ... See you at the Gaslight Tavern, Chief Street, Brompton from 9pm on July 15!

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The Negotiators played a short sharp kick arse gig at the Hackney Hotel last night. Asked along by the Mature Students Association of Adelaide University to play for their fundraiser, we leapt at the opportunity to play at this classic Adelaide pub. Three sets in three hours, in front of around forty appreciative audience members.The 'new' lineup made its official debut and rocked right through

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The Negotiators play the Hackney this Friday. It's in a show being put on by a friend of ours. Should be fun. What will make it extra special is that it will be the debut of Chris as a permanent member of the band, after Sox's forced retirement. I am really looking forward to the coming period, starting this Friday. Both Chris and Barry have proved their worth in the busy first half of this year,

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Life takes strange twists. Sox has now had to leave the band permanently. Good on him for giving it a go after his injury, good on him for not flogging a dead horse. Sad for him that he has to make the choice, good on him for doing it in a civilised fashion. So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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I've started another blog which has a photos I've taken around the place (not band related). To check it out, click here.

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This Friday night we are playing at the Hackney Hotel. It's on Hackney Road. We've not played there before. A friend of ours has organised the hire of a room and gear and food for a night out for her and our uni friends, amongst others. We were asked if we wanted to play to them. It's been years since we played for a uni club. So we said yes. Should be fun. If you want to know how to get through

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The Negotiators played the Cumby (Glanville) on Sunday evening. The show kicked off at 3:30 pm, and we were finished at around 7:40. Played 4 sets, no encores as we had already gone over time. Audience was pretty good, in terms of both numbers and appreciation. This was the second show with the new lineup (Sox on drums, Barry on Bass), and again Terry provided his technical wizardry to the sound

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The Negotiators rocked the Glynde last night before a relatively small but appreciative audience. Started at 9.00 pm, finished the encore around 1.15 am. Over fifty songs spread over four sets with three 15 minute breaks. The new line up finally got it together, and it worked well!As foreshadowed in my last post, the new Negotiators line up debuted publicly last night. Sox made it through without

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We are playing at The Glynde Hotel this Saturday, 13 May.Click here for details.It's been an interesting five months. Sox put himself out of action in January, Terry left the band in March. Chris has been playing drums with us while Sox recovered, Barry has been playing bass since Terry departed. Terry helped out with sound and lights at our most recent gig.This weekend we finally get it together

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For details on our next gig, at the Glynde Hotel, click here.The Negotiators just played a 60th at The Lockleys Hotel for a long time follower of the band, Loretta. She had a ball through the evening, was nice to be able to give her back something for the loyalty she has given us. She had something like 120 people there, aged from (say) five to somewhere in the seventies - the bulk being in the

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Our next gig is at The Glynde hotel on May 13.Click here for details. For a report on our most recent gig, click here.

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Today, I went back to Guitarworks and purchased my newest musical companion. She is a blue Gort G210 electric guitar and cost $379 (set up by Brian in store, 3 year warranty). I went to six other music stores and looked at all of their guitars. I tried several to get the feel of them.I did a crash course (internet) last night, after looking around a few music stores in town, on guitar makes,

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My Yamaha G228 classical (nylon string acoustic) is my oldest musical companion. I got it in around December 1, 1994. I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'll get a guitar today and start learning to play'. I was a student at the time, and it is therefore some kind of a miracle that I had around $120 to my name. So I went into town to the smallest guitarshop I could find (Guitarworks, then on

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My backup guitar is a black Squire Strat Affinity (with white tap plate), made in China. I bought it second hand for $120, I've seen new versions for price between $300 - $500, with mine in the lower third of range.I've never really had much of a go on it. In it's younger days it tended to saw through strings a lot and have very high action which was quite difficult after the low action Fernandez

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As regular readers of this blog will know, I have had lots of problems with my guitars over the past year and a half. For the record, I have a black Fernandez (borrowed from someone called Allan six years ago, haven't seen him for years, am still waiting to return his instrument) and a backup Squire Strat ('Affinity series). Both of these instruments have done me fairly well, particularly the

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To see some previous Glynde photos, click here and here.To see a report of our most recent gig, click here.To see a report of our most recent gig at The Glynde, click here.The Glynde Hotel is on the corner of Payneham and Glynburne Roads.

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The Negotiators played the Cumberland, at Glanville, earlier today. We played from 3.30 to 7.30 pm. We had four days notice for the show. We had little opportunity for publicity. The audience was pretty good never-the-less. It was Barry's first show with us as bass player. Chris is still playing drums with us. Stage layout was the new improved version. We used the 'new' PA and all the equipment

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To read a report of The Negotiators' most recent gig, click here.The Negotiators met up with their new bass guitarist, Barry, earlier this evening. We met for a rehersal at Steve's music room. Steve, Mark and Nancy also met up with Terry prior to rehersal to formalise his departure and sort out a few logisitical loose ends. Although there was sadness throughout, there was also the pleasure and

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For a report on The Negotiators' most recent gig, click here. The following blurb was recently published in the E-zine put out at the place I work. I've tried to respect their anonymity. Even though ......they all recognised me!"Throughout this [time with this employer], Mark has continued to progress his musical interests. He is the rhythm guitarist and occasional songwriter for his band of six

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LATE NEWS FOLLOWS.If you’d prefer to read the review of our most recent gig, click here. Last night Terry gave notice. One of the reasons for this is because he wants to play more country music. Artistic integrity. As he said, the music we have is right for the gigs we are playing (and they’re good shows), but it’s not right for him. The deluge of ‘new’ songs we’ve been picking up recently, with

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The Negotiators played the Gaslight Tavern in Brompton last night. It was a pretty good gig. We played well, and the audience was both of a good number and disposition. Publican was happy, punters were happy, band was happy. All was well. We didn't make a hundred, but did bloody well to make half that considering what else was on!The show kicked off at 9pm sharp. First set went 50 min, even

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For The Negotiators, drawing a crowd was always going to be a tough task for March 11, there was a lot on in Adelaide. Therefore, last night's gig at the Gaslight Tavern showed something about the relative worth of promotion media in drawing audience. We were up against the Saturday Night drawing power of the city's biannual Fringe and Festival proper, the (Greek) Glendi Festival, big shows on at

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Gaslight flyer, produced for local distributionThat's us! We played the Gaslight Tavern at its regular Thursday night jam on March 9. We were the first of the jammers to get on stage. There were between 60 and 70 people there at the time we played our four songs. Lot's of fun. We did a couple of Divinyls' numbers, Green Day and Janis Joplin. How's that for ecletic? Also, pretty high energy. It

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It would be nice to play to a hundred people at The Gaslight Tavern (Brompton) on March 11 because this is one of our favorite venues. The place rocks! Hope to see you there...To see how it went, click here.

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The Negotiators played the Cumberland Hotel (Glanville) on a lovely Sunday afternoon from 4 pm to a bit after 8 pm. In that time we played around 55 songs in four sets. It’s been many months since we last played here, it was nice to return.Of special interest was the fact that area we set up had had a concrete floor added since our last visit. The acoustic effect of this was quite marked, no

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The Negotiators' bass player, Terry, is also our maestro of the technical effects which are such a fun part of rock'n'roll game. Anything to do with light and sound, he seems to sort out if it can be, and knows if it can't. Whether it's mixing live or studio, he's the man. He also has a nifty ability with the bass.What I didn't know for quite a while is how much he is into graphic design. His

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The Negotiators played again at the Blackdiamond Hotel in Port Adelaide this afternoon. I've called it Buff's Bar for earlier gigs, but I don't know if that's still the case 'cause I don't think Buff is there anymore. I gather there are other people involved in the running of the pub, as it was business as usual today.We are still soxless, not sure how long he's out of action for as I haven't

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The Glynde – 110206The Negotiators played The Glynde Hotel on Saturday night. Four sets, each of 12 or 13 songs, and an encore (of four songs) made for a fairly busy night. Publican was happy, rebooked us for two months’ time by the end of the third set. This was our third gig at The Glynde. As always, we started at 9 sharp (that is, those times we are supposed to start at 9!).Numbers were never

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If you're wondering, this is me during a rehersal in 2002. The only picture I really have at present, though the fact you're reading this means I've learnt how to post pictures! I will post suitable photos as I go. We've just got broadband, so let me know if a photo adds too much to your waiting time if you use dial-up.

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The Negotiators played at Buff’s Bar again last night, Friday the 13th. Just after a full moon. With a drummer who we’ve never played with before as a band. On the same night as the Schutzenfest (a big Adelaide german culture, sporting (shooting) and drinking festival, very popular). Not a big crowd. Not a big pub. Great show.Played with Chris on drums, filling in for Sox who is

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Happy New Year!The Negotiators trotted off down the Gaslight last night, Soxless (see previous post), and played in the Jam that is still going strong every Thursday night. House Band has changed from when I was last there, to the more in your face and more laid back 'Overdrive'. Besides liking their hard pub rock, I really like the fact that they don't get up as a band after the first eight to

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For a wee while The Negotiators are going to have make do without our erstwhile drummer, sox of the infinite beat. This has come about due personal reasons for Sox. Should be back on stage in a couple months. Till then we have two gigs lined up, and another just to have the date confirmed. So, we will either not play, play without a drummer, or, play with a different drummer.Nancy's off at

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On Sunday afternoon The Negotiators played a return gig at Buff’s Bar in Port Adelaide. In case you’ve looked but can’t find, it’s in the fantastic old wreck of a building on the main corner just before you get to the Port Markets. Apparently there’s restrictions on what the publican can put up for publicity (ie nothing). It’s also just up the road from Cash Converters (plenty of ugly signage

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Last week’s recording session produced 17 tracks, of which 15 are good enough that I would willingly put my hand up for them, warts and all. It’s a fairly neutral mix, perhaps a bit heavy on the drums. Makes me think of Nesta setting up the drum mikes while saying how he’d been “getting into” drums a fair bit in the recent past, having just “discovered” them (after 20 years in the business).

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Last Saturday The Negotiators recorded a demo CD at the Fish Shop R & R Studios in Port Adelaide. Neat little set up, with Nesta, a most pleasant techie, running the show. We were there for eight hours, and managed to get down 16 tracks plus ‘Mercedes Benz’ (with Nancy singing solo). At least, that’s what I hope happened as I had to leave over an hour early for parental duties. I left when we

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Last night The Negotiators played at Bush’s Bar from 7-11 pm. Bush’s Bar has only recently opened up in the site of one of Port Adelaide’s landmarks, Black Diamond Corner. It is a vast rambling ornate two story edifice, mainly run down, of which the present bar is only a small part of the structure. The publican is working on renevating the rest. The locals are right behind him. Good luck to

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Last night we played the Glynde Hotel for the second time. Again, good gig. Relatively large audience greatly enjoyed performance. The Negotiators played within their limits, extending themselves twice over periods of four or five songs into what we appear to have the potential of becoming. No major falling downs (except for one in the audience).We’d met to set up by 7.30 pm. We learnt from our

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Gig at The Lockleys – 4 Nov ‘05The Negotiators played at the Lockleys Hotel for the first time on Saturday night. ‘Twas one of our ‘private’ shows, this time for Steve’s friend Phil on his 50th. Over a hundred people when we started, probably 60 still there 5 sets, 56 songs and 4 ½ hours later. They were rocking from the start of the second set until the end of the last.We set up by 6 pm,

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The Negotiators played at the Marleston Leageball Centre on the night of 7 October. The Combined Australian Netball Associations had just concluded their annual weeklong carnival, attended by over 700 netballers aged 7-21 and a large number of family and supporters from around Australia. Despite inclement weather towards the end of the week, around 400 were present for closing ceremony and the

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This was our first gig at the Glynde. Sox did the organising with the venue, I think he used a form letter we have to kick off negotiations on behalf of The Negotiators. Set up was pretty straightforward, we being at ground level in a corner in the main bar, in front of the bingo and shooting game machines. The room was fairly large and open, making a pleasant change from the Glandville ‘play

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