Another Video - 'Jimma's Pop'

We've uploaded another video from our Oppo Gig. This one is 'Jimma's Pop.' Once again, listen with headphones or decent speakers if you can to get the best sound.



Still more to come - keep coming back.

Gig Video

We've got a few videos of our debut gig to upload in the next few days - here is the first. It's an extract from '3over4' - the show openner. I beseech you to use earphones or decent speakers to watch and listen as the sound quality isn't great (recorded through handycam mic) and will sound awful on tinny computer speakers. Alas, Ali's drums, Ben's bass, and my guitar are barely audible in this clip - but you may get the idea.



A huge thanks to Jody for bringing his camera along and shooting it.

More to come very soon.

Oppo Gig - Photos and Lowdown

As first gigs go that was a pretty decent one. We shared a bill with punk-band Seven State (also their first gig as a band) and nu-metallers Merrick - I think this was due to the fact that Ben described our music as satanic rock on our myspace page... a joke that backfired when we ended being billed as "Yanu (satanic rock)."

The other acts were all very polished and set the bar quite high, but we managed not to drop the ball and pulled off our headline slot playing and sounding pretty good to our ears at least.



WAGS and friends and members of the other bands added numbers to the audience, not to mention goodwill. We rattled through our set in just over half an hour.






With two songs left to go we were told that the council were complaining that we were making too much noise - naturally we turned up for the finale - suitably a song called 'Noisy' (also trades under the name 'Fuck You).'





People seemed to genuinely like our brand of satanic rock - one drunk man tried to join the band.

We're trying to sort out some more gigs and have irons in some pretty healthy fires.

Gig went good

Just a quick one to say that the gig went well - thanks to friends for coming down and to strangers for listening. Photos and and even video footage will be be posted here soon, so you can relive the magic that was Yanu's first gig. In the meantime, here is the sweetest sight - Yanu at the top of a bill:

G-Day

The day has come - the 10th of October 2007 will not just go down in history as the day Radiohead hammerred another nail to into the coffin of the record industry - in just over twelve hours Yanu will be taking to the stage for its inaugural gig.

We had one last, frantic, practice last night and sort of settled on a set list which has now been lost. With new amps, we played loud and hard - so much so that as Simon summoned a wall of feedback for the intro to what will be our set closer, I was forced to say "you just can't do that to people." He promises to be good tonight - but it may just have been me feeling grouchy and stuffy with a hideous cold. I'm going to have a box of man-size Kleenex at the end of my pedal-board this evening.

It turns out that our set may be a little shorter than the allocated 45 mins - but size isn't everything. Not only do we have fewer tunes, that the world is ready for, than we thought but we played them rather fast, such is our pre-gig excitement.

Whether it lasts 15 minutes or half an hour, it should be a lot of fun, so see you later!

Gig Time Announced / New Amps

The details of our gig have now been made public and we can tell you that we will be going on stage at 2300. The place is Oppo on Park St and the day is tomorrow, Weds 10th Oct 2007 (but you already knew that last bit).

Simon and Ben have been busy buying amps and bass cabs, both of which will be on display at the show. Simon settled for a Laney LC30 MKII combi amp to replace his Marshall half stack:



While Ben opted for the Hartke 115 cab for extra bass weight:

Pratices Going Well / New Pedal

Last night we had our penultimate session in rehearsal rooms before our gig next week. It went pretty well - we're not perfect yet but are sounding better than we ever have done.



Simon, Ali, and Ben rehearse 'No Reply'

I resolved my pedal deilema and have ended up buying a Danelectro 'DanEcho.' It sounds really nice and analoguey - very warm, rich tone not found on digital models. It works really well with some of the YANU tunes like 'threeoverfour' and 'Iceberg Girl.'



DanEcho