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Tonight, the four of us went to Agua Ardiente to play a charity show for both Children of Persia and the International Club of DC.
I had been to Agua once before, to catch some friends of mine playing there. It's an interesting club, with a heavy Mediterranean/Spanish feel to the establishment. Lots of people wearing black there, for some reason. The layout of the club is very similar to a large "U", with the band being set up in the lower left-hand corner of the shape.
We were only on the hook for a single short set. Unfortunately, we had no real sound check -- actually, that's pretty much par for the course anymore. The configuration of the club does not particularly lend itself well to live music; the walls have lots of flat surfaces, and you're basically playing to two thin halls. But we tweaked the sound as best we can, mostly trying to not have a repeat of the feedback issues we had at the last show.
We breezed through our sets pretty well. We had some time issues, along with the usual blocking concerns. As with our last show, we each had difficultly in hearing what the other was playing. When that is the case, having a consistent blocking of song segments is critical.
The other issue with the set was the time in between songs. We would get up some good energy, but then lose it with several minutes of dead air between each tune (either that, or having a guitarist noodle around for a few minutes). IN any case, it hurt the overall performance.
Still, for as short a period of time that we have been playing together, we did a pretty good job. The crowd (and it was a pretty good size crowd) seemed to enjoy what we were doing. After loadout, I worked the crowd for a bit, chatting with various people. They were pretty supportive and appreciative of the music we had played. A few even inquired as to our availability for future shows.
Posted by Casper at March 25, 2004 10:46 PM