February, Birthday, Holiday Camps and Slush Puppies

Here we are at the end of February! This month has felt like one massive blur to be honest. Never knowing which way is up, this month has been busy, hectic and productive!

I started the month with a covers gig in Bulith Wells in Mid Wales with Tom Stott, and Ollie and Martyn Harding. This gig was a lot of fun and well worth the 3 hour car journey from Wigan that morning! In this month, I also turned 20! On the 4th of February I officially stopped being a teenager! And what better way is there to do that than singing karaoke in our local pub and falling over? I can't think of one.

Anyway, to business! This month I enjoyed my first holiday camp gig! This was with Spinoffs at Holiday Resort Unity Brean, which is at Burnham on Sea. The gig was a lot of fun, everyone had a great time and we were well received by customers, and members of staff! A fantastic gig, another hell of a drive in the van, and I'm looking forward to returning later this year! Oh yeah, and I relived memories of being about 10 by drinking slush puppies all day. I am going to consider this a quarter life crisis?

Enjoying a Slush Puppy at HRU Brean

Another gig for Spinoffs took place at Barnsley Central Working Men's Club! Another appreciative audience, and another absolutely electric gig. Again, I'm looking forward to returning to Barnsley later on this year for another show.

In other news, I went down to Loughborough earlier this month to purchase some in ear monitors! This is a very exciting part new part of my gear as this should help my live backing vocal singing and overall musicianship! For anyone wondering, the company who are making them are Minerva Hearing Protection and 3/5ths of Spinoffs now support them! Fantastic gear, and I'm really looking forward to using them!

And finally, it is with great joy that I announce that I am going to be playing bass in the next RNCM Session Orchestra project! I'm very excited for our upcoming gig, which I'll post more info about a little bit closer to the time! Needless to say, attendance is mandatory.

I'd better go just now as I am gigging in Glasgow tomorrow and I need to be up bright and early! But until then, that was February. See you in March.

Alasdair