First Show - a Post Mortem

Last night, I played my first show with my band, Belleville Tweed, which consists of myself on guitar and vocals, and Sarah on bass. We didn't play with a drummer, but rather backing tracks controlled by a laptop using a program I made! We played 6 songs, 4 being songs written by the band, and the final 2 being songs I wrote as a solo artist.

Setlist

1. Planthead
2. 200 Days (unreleased)
3. Drop The Knife (unreleased)
4. Nosebleed (unreleased)
5. Carry On (unreleased)
6. Love Stinks (released on my Demo collection)

If you want some more details you can check out the blog entry I made last night before the show, >here<

What went right

• The drum tool worked flawlessly
• The crowd reacted well to the music

What went wrong

• Pedal control is very difficult when singing into a microphone
• More vocal warmups were needed, I struggled to really get into the performance vocally until the 2nd or 3rd song.
• Various performance mistakes
• We couldn't hear the drums very well so timing issues happened during a few tracks

We're looking for a drummer to join the band to solve the issues of drum timing, and hopefully with more practice we can play our instruments with higher confidence, and sing better. It was a good start and I look forward to the future.