[GPP] Rotersand & Revolution By Night
Now, it must be said that shooting gigs at Slimelight/Electrowerkz is probably a hobby for a masochist. The light is f-ing awful; three people in the venue make it look crowded and the whole place is covered with a layer of grime that would make the inside of my car engine look like a sterile environment
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Secondly, given our usual tardy work-rate, and rare busy-ness live this year, I was a bit confused as to how we "move on" in one year! Two new songs since our last UK gig not enough? Greedy!
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The "moving on comment" was based on my impressions of having seen you three times in 2006 (making you one of the bands I've seen most this year!). While I enjoyed what you did and of course Steve had an immediate connection with the Slimelight crowd (but also some nerves?) I didn't feel that there was a noticeable "improvement" compared to earlier gigs.
Obviously I can't speak for before this year (as I'd never seen RBN before 2006) whereas I've seen some bands come on in leaps and bounds I felt you've kinda plateaued. This seems to happen to many artists and they need to "break" out of this to get to the next level - that could probably be crudely categorised as the leap from "support" to "headline". It's not trivial and to be blunt there's a huge number of acts who never make it.
At least that's my impression! I expect you'd find others that will disagree - but I just hope that makes some sense. And of course best of luck for 2007!!!
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Yep, there's always that "where do we go from here" worry, and I said to someone afterwards that we weren't a headline band yet, altho we could, as support, make the difference between a good gig and a better one... That said, in the UK there's not a great deal of choice of appropriate bands.
We're still getting into our stride I think; the Covenant date in May were our first for 2 years, and we only played once in 2004. As constructive criticism is no bad thing, was it songs or general performance that gave you that impression?
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It was a general impression - next time I'll try and think more constructively at the time! (if you let me in that is!!!). It is probably fair to say I see so many gigs, large and small, that I'm quite hard to impress.
Also, it probably must be said that having your "best known song" being a remix doesn't do you any favours. You need the next floorpacker to be the "album version" so to speak.
Finally I didn't realise you'd gigged so little - I assumed I was a latecomer to your music. If I was looking at you as "a new band in 2006" (which sounds like a reasonably fair interpretation) I'd be more impressed and less critical about "not being a headline yet".
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The vast majority of the current live set has been written this year too.
The thing we need to do is get the album tracks finished, recorded, produced, and released - until then we have no chance of replacing (or at least complementing) the Ronan Harris Remix of Faithless as our most well known track.
I think our songs City Lights, Machine Code and Someone Else all have the potential to do that.
I think you saw gig 1, 4 and 7. My personal opinion is that the London Covenant support was the best gig for us: biggest crowd and best reaction (due to the audience size).
As for the Slimelight show, during our set I'm pretty sure that I said I was nervous to be on stage at Slimelight rather than behind the DJ box! It was quite an odd feeling!
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And yes, I remember you mentioning your nerves, as well as how you couldn't see anything on stage!
I'll be staying in touch :-)
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At the Levellers last week Mark Chadwick made some comment along the lines of "Oh come on Mark - remember which bloody song you're singing" and he had no excuses!
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