Hey and welcome to another KT Tuesday.
Can you believe I'm three gigs behind on my blogs. Well two after this one.
This particular gig seen us back at the venue Redrum in Stafford.
Stafford has always held a special place in the bands heart due to it being the birth place of The Wild Strays.
The first chords of "Guilty of my Innocence" "The Wild Strays" and "9Lives" were also born there.
In fact I may do in time..a blog with backstorys to the songs.
Speaking to Grace and getting her view and inspiration behind the songs she wrote and as we go on the other members too.
That could be a cool thing to do.
Anyway back to the plot.
We have played Redrum a couple of times and it's always been a good venue.
This gig came out the blue really, as I seen a post on Facebook by the promoter, asking for any bands that could jump in and play at short notice.. as a band had pulled out.
So I messaged the rest of the strays and within a hour or two, I messaged Shaun the promotor back and confirmed we could fill the spot.
To be honest I didn't really know who we were supporting and I did a cheeky search on the bands.
Both bands were a similar fan count to ourselves and it was penned to be a great night..
I got talking to the guitarist out of Electus and then the singer later on in the evening.
They were great guys and I think we could see ourselves on the same bill again one day.
Both bands soundchecked and then it was our turn.
We have a cool device now which enables us to do some cool intros.
If you haven't heard it yet, then get your fine asses down to a Wild Strays show and come and see for yourself.
We finished soundcheck and it was ok, the drum kit backline was interesting and I was told to turn my amp down so quiet that I could barely hear it.
Sadly new monitors had only been installed on the morning and the sound guy was still getting the best out of them.
And I got to be honest.
I couldn't hear a thing through our set, apart from the drums.
But we plowed on and put on a wild show with a united front.
Afterwards we had a great chat with Shaun the promoter and we have some interesting things in the pipeline with him next year.
It wasn't particularly busy at the gig and we stuck around to support the other bands and left towards the end of the night.
Then... out the blue, Grace received a message from another promotor asking if we could do another gig the next day.
This time in Dudley at Ye Old Foundry.
We all looked at one another and said, hell yeah let's do it.
Little did we know it would turn out to be a truly amazing gig full of so much energy and support from the other bands and crowd. Grace even ran around the back of the pub with her guitar mid-set.
But more on that next Tuesday.
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