The Red Desperado Approach

That's the name of my band. We've been together for over a year, and we've only played 3 gigs. Come to that we've only got 8 songs. But you better believe they're fuckin good songs.
We played a show last night at Rumours. It was badly publicized. I, for instance, forgot to tell anyone (Blake or Nora), half assuming that they would somehow know. Through magic, I guess...
We played with 3 other bands, who I'm not going to embarass by trying to remember the names of. However, they were still pretty good.
The opener was a guy I'd seen around Stratford before. He plays the guitar like a god and is backed up by his fucking PLAYSTATION (yes, for all you kiddies out there who think when someone says Halo they mean Halo2, that's a playstation 1). The sound was best decribed by Alex as "Epic" and there really isn't anthing I can add to that. It's like video game music with hard fast synth beats and bass, but with ridiculously shredded guitar pouring all over it. When talking onstage the guy refers to the playstation as if it were a member of the group, with plenty of "us's" and "we's".
The second group was described to me by Julian before the show as "Like the Foo-Fighters, but bad". I'm not really gonna pretend I cn elaborate on that. They were definately pop, but I'm sure I would have liked their music if a) I hadn't been busy thinking about my own show (we were next) and b)I didn't have my head on a table with earplugs in. Bottom line is that the only thing I can say is the guy's snare drum was way too loud for 3 reasons. 1, It was a picollo, which while kicking much ass, does so at a higher frequency than a normal snaredrum. 2, The guy hit it with a rimshot every single time. The third reason became apparent as soon as I took the stage. I'm not used to having my drums miced, but when it happens there's usually more than 2 mics being used. Not in this case. There was a bass mic and a snare mic. Oh boy. Not to mention that there were no monitors, and all three of us were behind the big-ass mains, me by 10 feet. Did we see trouble coming? Of course not. Julian and Alex kept asking people how the mix was. the person who ever responded was Luke, who assured us it was great. Wait, this is Luke Robertson. Luke "no matter where the dial on my amp is, I'm still at 11" Robertson. Oh well. Keep playing. I was sloppy for the first few songs, not being used to the kit, but I really got it together by the end. We all thought it was good. Turns out the guitar and bass were terrifyingly loud, and (this is a first for me) they comletely drowned out the drums. how this could happen remains a mystery to me.
We didn't hear most of the last band's set, as we loaded out right when they began. But we got back in time to hear their last 3 songs. the show eneded when the bass player stepped on his cord for like the 5th time (since we'd got there) and his input broke. The rest of the band tried to carry on, but with the high decibell static coming from the bass player's attempts to keep playing, they gave up.
As I said, the show was not well publicized. there were maybe 60 people from 9:30-1:30. The cover was $6. We decided to ask for money anyway. and I'm proud to say that I got $7 and a Tootsie Roll Pop for my trouble. Oh and by "we" I mean "Julian" and by "Decided" I mean "was forced by me and Alex". he didn't actually ask either, he just talked to the guy running the show (God knows about what) until he offered Julian money (presumeably to make him go away so he could pack up his shit). Anyway, it was all good. I got home(stratford) around 2:30, slept until 7 when the fayther got me up and drove me home(waterloo). When I got into my room I was greeted with a notification that m hard-drive was critically low on space. Great. This is what happens when DC++ runs for 24 hours straight. 2.4 gigs of free space turns into...39.1 Megs? Oh shit. I tried to deal with it by burning a bunch of movies to DVD, but the burn was taking too long and windows was giving me warnings every time another megabyte of space was taken up by DC++ (still DLing of course), so I had to run add/remove and get rid of my BF2 burned copy (didn't work anyway, but I hoped to upgrade my system someday). The damn thing was taking up 2 gigs on its own. I then realize It's 8:20 and I need to get to Physics. I'm proud to say I only fell asleep once, and it was only for like 1 minute after he'd finished the lecture and was demonstrating something. Luckily I woke up or I might have been in that lecture hall for a while.
Then I bought a chocolate muffin for brekkers and came back. DVD has burned, delete the movies from hard drive, I now have 6 free gigs. Whew. Eat Muffin, listen to Cardigans. Fuck you.