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Negotiators Duo gigs review and band update

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 generate 'backing parts' over which you perform. Thus, Nancy sang, Steve played lead guitar, and the 'midi' generated drums, bass and rhythm. Usually, these two piece duos use a midi with preprogrammed cover music. That's what Nancy and Steve have been doing. With 'fucked decisions' however, Steve has started learning how to program the midi. This will be very interesting to see where it ends up in an artistic sense!

Finally, we meet for reherals as a band again tomorrow. Hopefully blow the cobwebs off another dozen or so songs, tightening ourselves up prior to remerging with the stream of consciousness and work which is live gigging.

Negotiators Duo - Burra Gig this Friday

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 at the Burra Pub this coming Friday (9/2/07), starting around 7.30. They tend to pull a bit of an audience there. If you want to be part of a classic country pub in a rockin' mood, get on up there. It's not that far from Adelaide...

Negotiators Duo - Hamley Bridge Jan 27

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!

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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 years.

Hamley Bridge, The Excelsior, and Rehersals.

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 about 7.30.

They say it's just to keep them in touch while the band kicks into gear again, but I'm sure there's a certain pleasure to the lack of complexity when you only have singer, guitarist and Midi (computer) music - not all the dramas that go with the band. On the other hand, there's a certain wild energy that you can latch onto with the bootstrap mentality that comes with playing in the band.

We've started rehersing again, a bit more methodically than before. So it shouldn't be too long now...

Thanks Jo.

Happy New Year - 2007!

Have a good one!

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