SHADOWS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Near Gloucester)

[noelford]

My guitarist colleague Eric Isaac and myself are hosting an afternoon of Shadows music on SUNDAY JUNE 3rd. Whether you play or just like to listen, please join us for an informal and relaxed afternoon playing some of our favourite music.

Equipment is provided and, if you want to play, you only need bring your guitar. If you do want to bring any of your own amps/effects gear etc., we will try to accommodate, but it just depends on what we can fit in. Time and space mean that we can only have individual players and not full bands.

We will have lots of Shadows backing tracks but you can plug your own BT player (CD, Mini-Disk, iPads, laptops etc.) into our system if you wish. A laptop should also be available for CDs and memory-sticks.

Refreshments will be provided and admission is FREE (though we will have a donation box if you would like to make a small contribution towards our costs).

This is a one-off event for the moment, though we would love to be able to hold more like it in the future - it all depends on the support we get.

So do, please, come along if you can. We have the hall from 12.30 until 16.30, so that should give us a good three hours of actual playing time.

The venue is:

Whitminster Village Hall
School Lane
Whitminster
Gloucester
GL2 7NT

School Lane is directly off the A38 with the hall immediately on your right as you enter School Lane, and is about half a mile from J13 off the M5. There is plenty of free parking space.

Please note, we welcome players of all abilities, and the idea is just to have a fun and relaxed afternoon.

If you think you can come (and we hope you can), it would be helpful if you could let us know by posting here (though if you are a member of the other forums I am posting this message on, just one reply will do!)

[noelford]

Just a reminder, folks, our gathering is just over a week away, on Sunday 3rd June. At the moment we have a small number of people who have told us they will be coming - enough to ensure we have a good afternoon of music to look forward to, but there is still room for more of you if you fancy coming along to play or, if you wish, just to listen and eat cake!

One point. If you want to use your own amps, that's fine, but the hall we are using on this occasion has a very strict policy about electrical equipment and we have had to sign a contract agreeing that any such equipment used will be PAT tested. If your gear isn't tested, though, you can plug into our own equipment, which complies, and is available for all to use. All you need is your guitar (and you can even borrow one of those, if you want!)

My rig is a Bose L1 compact, which is used in conjunction with various amp modellers via both my iPad and also using pedals, which include a Joyo AC Tone and a Stanley eTap 2HW for great Shadows' multi-tap echoes. We will also have at least one conventional amp available, too.

Hope to see more of you there.

Noel

[noelford]

Well, as it turned out it was Shadows on A Sunny Sunday Afternoon! Despite, the temptation of the glorious weather, we enjoyed an excellent turnout and a great afternoon of music was had by all. Many thanks to those of you who came and played (and listened) and made our event such a success. So much so that we will be repeating it - probably in a couple of months' time.

At one point I noticed a group of people, standing at the open double doors to the hall (it was very warm), talking to co-organiser, Eric. My first thought was, Oops! A delegation of neighbours asking us to turn the volume down. However, it turned out to be some passers-by who had been attracted over by the music. Same old story, wherever I go - the public loves Shadows' music, even if, for some of them, it's the first time they have heard it.

For news of the next one, watch this space.

[fingersandthumbs]

Hi Noel and Eric, thanks for a great afternoon its been a while since I've picked up a guitar and the first time I've ever played in public. As you may have noticed I attended the Eric Morecombe school of music - all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.

All the best.

Phil.