Well, the gig went a lot better than the last. We weren't exactly note-perfect but that's not really the point. We sounded better thanks in no small part to the engineer at The Louisiana who did a great job, and we performed pretty well I think. We had a decent audience and loads of people I'd never seen before (who I imagine were there for the headliner). The other bands (The Exhibition, and The Corrections) were both really good and well worth staying for.
This time we can offer no photos, or video - WAG and official photographer Chloe was off sick and I forgot my video camera. However, at some stage we should be getting a recording of the gig and will no doubt post the results here and update our woeful Myspace.
This is most likely it for 2007. Plans for the new year include studio time, a charity gig (plus as many other gigs as we can get), and a video (I have a killer idea for a cheap pop-promo). Yanu has been great fun this year and incredibly rewarding to get on stage - thanks to everyone who's encouraged us to persevere and for letting us know that they think our music is good.
Have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year.
Love, Yanu
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Doors and set time tonight
We go on stage at 8.45. Doors at 8.30 but the bar below is cheap and open all day/evening, so come and join us for pre-rock drink.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Yanu is Broke / Gig Looming / New Song / Guitar Trivia
Sadly the £50 that Yanu has so far earned in its vainglorious career has run out. We spent the last tenner yesterday at our regular practice room The Muse Rooms. We had an excellent practice in which we sounded tight, and ready for the Louisiana gig on Thursday. As mentioned before we will be supporting EMI-signed The Corrections.
It should be a good gig - we've always wanted to play the Louie as a band. The other band Ali drums in, Kabuki Mono, played there a week or two ago and he said that the sound-desk did a wonderful job - so we should be sounding good - for those of you who were dissapointed at the aural soup on offer at the Fleece gig.
We also worked up a new song yesterday, working title: "Ben's Pop." It's based around an arpeggiated A Minor with a traditional verse chorus structure and Yanu's trademark dynamic build. It then breaks down to an unexpected A Minor/F Major 'chill out room' before vamping out on an equally surprising A Minor / D7/11 curve-ball. As yet, no lyrics.
In other news, I've reinstated a my blonde Telecaster as my guitar of choice, having replaced the unwieldy 11-gauge strings with some 10s.
Blonde Tele
I'm now putting the whole guitar and pedal board through my ART Tube pre-amp, which is giving it warmth, tonal fullness, and a little overdrive. It was sounding really good.
ART Tube Pre-Amp
It should be a good gig - we've always wanted to play the Louie as a band. The other band Ali drums in, Kabuki Mono, played there a week or two ago and he said that the sound-desk did a wonderful job - so we should be sounding good - for those of you who were dissapointed at the aural soup on offer at the Fleece gig.
We also worked up a new song yesterday, working title: "Ben's Pop." It's based around an arpeggiated A Minor with a traditional verse chorus structure and Yanu's trademark dynamic build. It then breaks down to an unexpected A Minor/F Major 'chill out room' before vamping out on an equally surprising A Minor / D7/11 curve-ball. As yet, no lyrics.
In other news, I've reinstated a my blonde Telecaster as my guitar of choice, having replaced the unwieldy 11-gauge strings with some 10s.
Blonde Tele
I'm now putting the whole guitar and pedal board through my ART Tube pre-amp, which is giving it warmth, tonal fullness, and a little overdrive. It was sounding really good.
ART Tube Pre-Amp
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Video - Fleece Gig
Well, here is a little bit of video footage from our fleece gig. Hopefully we will pu the propper sound over it soon. In the meantime enjoy this:
3over4
3over4
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Oh
As ever, thanks to friends for coming along - there was a lot of supoort for us (or morbid curiosity) and I'm sorry we didn't reward it with a better set. We started off pretty well but it went downhill from there... our least good performance too date. Ben gave it a generous 6/10, while I gave it 4. Simon declared it 'awful,' but Ali, no doubt deafened by years of drum abuse, seemed to think it was okay.
We're not really sure what went wrong. The mix coming out of the monitors was just weird. I couldn't hear my guitar at all at some moments and then at others just heard drums and loads of me. Rather confusing.
I think we need to learn how to set up our pedals properly and trust that the house sound is better than the monitors. If you come to the Louisiana gig on the 20th I promise we will be much better. We may even have some new material.
No doubt photos and any salvageable video will follow soon.
We're not really sure what went wrong. The mix coming out of the monitors was just weird. I couldn't hear my guitar at all at some moments and then at others just heard drums and loads of me. Rather confusing.
I think we need to learn how to set up our pedals properly and trust that the house sound is better than the monitors. If you come to the Louisiana gig on the 20th I promise we will be much better. We may even have some new material.
No doubt photos and any salvageable video will follow soon.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Mean but funny
I found this today. Well it made me laugh.
Just in case the people at wikipedia get wind of it, here is a copy of the text:
"Conor McNicholas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conor McNicholas is a revolting, spoilt, middle-class dullard, who is editor of IPC-run music magazine The New Musical Express, better known as the NME. He sold the magazine down the river in the early 2000s by focusing on inconsequential tabloid rubbish and loads of boring identikit, indie-schmindley, pseudo-rebellious bands. He also bears an uncanny resemblance to a rodent, but has never let this get in the way of his magazine's worship of groundbreaking artists such as Dominic Masters.
His first professional post on a magazine was on a fledgling Manchester publication called Sub where he wrote a spoof horoscope under the pen name of Snufkin, which was not all funny. McNicholas went on to write for the dance press holding senior positions at both Ministry and Mixmag magazines before going on to edit Muzik.
In recent years he has turned the NME into a mainstream pop-magazine, with Lily Allen and The Mighty Boosh appearing on the front cover.
During his editorship Conor has won several industry awards including Consumer Magazine Editor of the Year (Periodical Publishers Association Editorial and Publishing Excellence Awards, May 2005), Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors, November 2005), Tour of the Year for the NME Awards Tour 2006 (Vodafone Live Music Awards, October 2006), Editor of the Year and Music Magazine of the Year (Record of the Day Music Journalism and PR Awards, November 2006 ) and Brand Building Initiative of the Year for Club NME (British Society of Magazine Editors, November 2006). In October 2007 Conor was listed as one of the 1000 most influential people in London by the Evening Standard.
In 2007 Conor was one of the judges for the Mercury Music Prize. The winning album was Myths Of The Near Future by Klaxons.
However, there has been some criticism over McNicholas's reign as editor, especially over claims that the quality of writing had slipped, the genres of music covered have become less broad and that the magazine now contains less content than in previous years. He's a cunt.
If destroyed still true."
Just in case the people at wikipedia get wind of it, here is a copy of the text:
"Conor McNicholas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conor McNicholas is a revolting, spoilt, middle-class dullard, who is editor of IPC-run music magazine The New Musical Express, better known as the NME. He sold the magazine down the river in the early 2000s by focusing on inconsequential tabloid rubbish and loads of boring identikit, indie-schmindley, pseudo-rebellious bands. He also bears an uncanny resemblance to a rodent, but has never let this get in the way of his magazine's worship of groundbreaking artists such as Dominic Masters.
His first professional post on a magazine was on a fledgling Manchester publication called Sub where he wrote a spoof horoscope under the pen name of Snufkin, which was not all funny. McNicholas went on to write for the dance press holding senior positions at both Ministry and Mixmag magazines before going on to edit Muzik.
In recent years he has turned the NME into a mainstream pop-magazine, with Lily Allen and The Mighty Boosh appearing on the front cover.
During his editorship Conor has won several industry awards including Consumer Magazine Editor of the Year (Periodical Publishers Association Editorial and Publishing Excellence Awards, May 2005), Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors, November 2005), Tour of the Year for the NME Awards Tour 2006 (Vodafone Live Music Awards, October 2006), Editor of the Year and Music Magazine of the Year (Record of the Day Music Journalism and PR Awards, November 2006 ) and Brand Building Initiative of the Year for Club NME (British Society of Magazine Editors, November 2006). In October 2007 Conor was listed as one of the 1000 most influential people in London by the Evening Standard.
In 2007 Conor was one of the judges for the Mercury Music Prize. The winning album was Myths Of The Near Future by Klaxons.
However, there has been some criticism over McNicholas's reign as editor, especially over claims that the quality of writing had slipped, the genres of music covered have become less broad and that the magazine now contains less content than in previous years. He's a cunt.
If destroyed still true."
Monday, December 03, 2007
Another Video
There's another video on our youtube account - YanuRock
Broken Clocks Video
This one is 'Broken Clocks' (WT) - again taken from our inaugural gig at Oppo. Don't forget to rate it if you like it.
All out videos will also appear int he navigation bar of this blog.
Hopefully we'll sort out some video at the Fleece gig tomorrow as well as decent recording of the music itself. All will be posted here so stay in touch.
Broken Clocks Video
This one is 'Broken Clocks' (WT) - again taken from our inaugural gig at Oppo. Don't forget to rate it if you like it.
All out videos will also appear int he navigation bar of this blog.
Hopefully we'll sort out some video at the Fleece gig tomorrow as well as decent recording of the music itself. All will be posted here so stay in touch.
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