So much to do these days it’s hard to find time to post stuff…
Last Saturday Swamp Train played at the Vully Blues Festival, our first “serious” gig, starting at 19h00, 4 sets, over three hours of playing. The above video of use playing Willie Dixon’s “Spoonful” is from the beginning of the first set and if the crowd seems a tad scarce it’s because folks were still arriving, by the second the place was packed.
I was pretty stressed with this concert because we have been working on a lot of new material and arrangements and the chances of a major screw up was pretty high. And there were a few, a false start with each half of the band going in separate directions for instance. But all in all it I believe we put on a passable act ending the last three sets to loud demands of “play another one” from the crowd – which we were happy to do in the last set; the 15 minute breaks between the others were a bit too short to shorten even more.
As you can see in the above, “Cut Finger” the band’s new lead guitarist, has added a lot of energy to the band + the joys of wireless systems. And our three original tunes (of which I sing two because I wrote them) received good response. That said we definitively need to work more on the starting and finishing of most of the tunes we play.