Hey and welcome back to another KT Tuesdays.
I feel this one could be a little late as i'm writing it on the fly. I have been a little busy this week.
Well this I think is our 9th gig in a row, all at different venues and you may have seen something on our face-book called [War of the Wilds]
What is War of the Wilds?
Well it was a concept drawn up by Grace, after announcing the following statement.
The War of the Wilds!
2 Shows, 2 Neighbouring Counties, 2 Weeks!
Our mission: To find out which county is the Wildest!
As Staffordshire residents but West Midlands patrons; we haven't really picked a side but we'll take any excuse to get people a little riled up and ready to party!
First battle of the September Showdown begins on the 15th at the Redrum in Stafford! Tickets available on our website or at the venue!
The finale will be on the 27th, for our return to the Actress and Bishop in Birmingham!
Neither event is to be missed and both are going to go down in history!
We'll see you there! And remember...
Keep it Wild, Strays!
This was also our very first home town Début here in Stafford and what better place then at the Redrum venue.
So this was setting up to be a cracking two gig showdown.
The day started quite relaxed to be honest. Jake arrived here at the house along with some friends and we all met Spice down at the venue. The load in time was 5.30pm and because we were taking friends with us as well. We decided to take two cars down.
Jake was riding shotgun with me and honestly, getting to the front of the Redrum was not easy.
In fact the one way street was blocked and I said sod this, and we ended up driving down it the wrong way just so I could get the car right next to the venue door.
No dramas, no police and no worries, and we started to unload.
The Redrum venue was under some developments and the downstairs was like a builders yard. We all had flashbacks our our rehearsal time at Stafford music Studios a few weeks back. But it was fine and continued to lift all the gear up the stairs which lead directly onto the stage. Juniper Wolf were sound checking when we arrived and we were expecting to be second on the bill after a band called Third Angle projection were opening the night..
There was no sign of them, so we spoke to Tom the sound engineer and asked him if it was possible to set our gear up on the stage and get a cheeky sound check ourselves while waiting for the other band.
Which is what we did, the fun checking mics and guitars and we did our sound check with a old song of ours. The sound levels were great, the volume was great and I think we were all happy.
We all started breaking down our pedal boards and was then told the other band couldn’t make it. So it was just us, The Wild Strays and Juniper Wolf playing tonight.
We figured we are now first on and so re-set up our gear and put Bruce our banner at the front of the stage. So all we had to do was step on stage to play.
We got talking and since there was only us and Juniper Wolf, we figured we would talk to them about extending our set list to compensate for the missing band.
We decided to bring back a old song of ours and for the first time in a long time, and put a cover back in the set list. If you were there, then you know which one it was.
So, the stage was set.
All we needed was our intro and we are good to go.
The sound of rain, Spice on the drums, and the show begins.
I must admit we were all hungry for this gig and it didn’t disappoint.
We came out with the thunder of Spices drums and belted straight into a new song of ours called Broken Glass.. Then into The Beast Inside followed by our début single 9 Lives.
There was a great crowd especially in the song Own Personal Hell.
This is one of our songs where we get everyone singing along. Just four words is needed. Both Grace and Jake when into the crowd to get Stafford fighting to be the loudest of this little war.
And boy they didn’t disappoint.
A few run practice runs, we were set to go. Just four words is needed “This Time its Personal”
Birmingham, I gotta say, this is all on you to beat Stafford.
The whole room was screaming those words and on a clap track for our final song for The Wild Strays all of the room had they’re hands in the air.
A belting huge note form me to finish the set and we wrapped up a great show..
Great night, great crowd, great venue and Stafford.. You did us proud.
We had great support at this gig from friends both new and old.
But a little special mention to Aline who is heading back to Brazil in a few days.
She asked for a pic with the band which of course did and had great fun chatting to her and trying to take a some pictures. Please excuse the quality and also minus Spice. He had to catch a train. Safe travels back home Aline. Hope to see you and Steve again soon x
That's it for this week.
See you for Part Two of the War of the Wilds,
Thursday 27th September at The Actress and Bishop in Birmingham ,
Trust me, you do not want to miss this.
Until then, keep it Wild
KT x