What are you up to tonight?

I’m fairly bored

You’ve got a a Monkehh!

Sweeney Todd on 4, McGuigan Merlot and ironing. I’m so rock’n’roll. 🙄

so bored I’m thinking of going to bed.

just finished watching the last episode of an idiot abroad. Bed soon as I’m off early to gisburn in morning. Just gotta finish this bottle of red.

You’ve got a a Monkehh!

special edition boxes, best trip to Morrisons ever

my parents got Monkey with their pg tips, gave it to the **** dog!

Necking San Miguel and sort of watching In Bruges and dithering about what bike jacket to buy online, for some reason I have to read every single review…

More worryingly, you set that photo up before getting the contents of that bottle down you. Sober.

Unless you have empties stashed in the cistern.

watching repeats of the wire, rubbing a girls fun bits, eating blueberry muffins, drinking coffee, editing a music video and writing this

Wife is on laptop, I’m on my phone, bored as buggery. 2012 is on tv in the background but it is utter shite. I’d go to bed myself if I hasn’t been asleep half the afternoon..

rubbing a girls fun bits, eating blueberry muffins

Dont get crumbs up there

The current Monkehs aren’t a patch on the ones they gave away a few years ago. Much lower quality.

More worryingly, you set that photo up before getting the contents of that bottle down you. Sober.

Unless you have empties stashed in the cistern.

Ha ha, good point, forgot I had the Jura, bought as a leaving present from work about 6 months ago, put it in the drinks cabinet and that was that. Freshly opened tonight and god damn is it nice.

Been out of drinking practice but i’m making a stout effort now

Shes not fussy

Been out of drinking practice but i’m making a stout effort now

As long as it doesn’t knock you off your road to fitness 😉

Failing to learn Smiths songs.

I think what monkehh has in its gob would be more worrying

Failing to learn Smiths songs.

“oh shut your mouth
how can you say I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does”

not much to it 😉

contemplating whether I should change my pedals to flats for tomorrows ride. The spd’s will be getting clogged up with snow nae doot.

Quiet night as SWMBO is out at some church thing. Currently I’m spinning some Tracy Chapman on the LP12 and drinking, of all thing, orange juice!

Pondering my next move…

Listening to some songs that I need to learn for a new years gig with a house covers band i’m stepping in for while they are between drummers. not my usual fair i might add.

Mustang Sally, Born to be wild, Knock on wood, I think you can guess the way this set list is going, Still its helping out a mate.

Radio 6 on ceiling speakers, kids yelling at me to turn it down, house shaking apparently, too old to care…..

yeah, I can live with that – helping out a mate for NYE. How many songs to learn?

John Drummer, I can sing them, it’s Johnny marrs effing tunings and chord changes that are a fricking nightmare.

Only have acoostick now, anyway, no compressors and drum machines you need to cut the sound like the original on How soon is now

ah yes, I can see that would be a problem. JM a fine guitarist but very difficult to reproduce, or so I’m told by my guitar-playing bandmates

Magic fingers…fo shure

Ive got 30 songs to learn, So far no real shockers most of the songs I’ve heard before but now need to listen to them First practive tomorrow.

tell you what. All these guitar hero threads on here, and Johnny Marr rarely gets a mention*, but talk to any guitarist and he’s right up there with Hendrix & the rest

* probably because he was in The Smiths, rather than a “look at me how good can I play” rawk band

@punk_drummer:
30 songs? How long are the band expecting to be playing for?

johnny marr is ace, it’s what makes the smiths The Smiths. Morrisey is just a moaning git without him.

hmmm, they’re technically very good some of those guitarists on that thread, but the music they play is generally little more than lift music designed to show off their skills…IMO obviously 😉

leaves me cold

30 songs? blimey that’s going to be a long night

First of 3 night shifts lookin after the motoring public! 😯

but the music they play is generally little more than lift music designed to show off their skills.

indeed. Fretboard w**kery, I think someone once said 😉 But what do I know, I just hit things 😈

But yeah, 30 songs & they’re expecting you to learn them all by NYE? unreasonable IMO. 30 songs is a good 90 minute set, so I’d ask them to trim it down to 15 songs if they want anything more than bum-chick bum-chick

not 100% how long were playing for i’m guessing 2 sets about 45 mins – 1 hour each I think the list i’ve been given is their full set list ATM. mind you with some of the songs on there reckon I could up the tempo a touch and get an hour set down to 20 mins and then have a beer or two

kevevs he just sings in a different Key. Marr sometimes Capos on as high as the 4th fret, Morrisey has quite a deep voice and sings off beat.

Sounds deadpan. Hard to do, as well as they do it. The Smiths were quite technically gifted, often overlooked

Stopped buying PG Tips after learning that they’re chopping animals up whilst they’re still alive, disembowelling them and examining their intestines.

All so they can sell the idea that tea keeps you healthy 🙁

Had a nice carvery,and several pints.ready for sleep

Just finished a lovely curry in the veeraswamy off regent street. Apparently britains oldest curry house. Wife loved it too.

Back from Bath Xmas market, round friends playing Ticket to Ride (Germany) and Ghost for Sale. I won both!!!

Home now, camomile tea and bed.

we do original material with 1 cover thrown in; 8 songs = 30 mins, so I reckon 45 mins = 10 songs plus a bit of banter; if they’re wanting 2x 45 mins* you probably need no more than 20-22 songs. Make it the simplest songs & you might be able to do it. I wouldn’t want to at that short notice.

I really would recommend slimming the setlist(s) if you can if you only have 4 weeks to practice them all – unless of course you can spend 8 hours every day between now & then…

* apparently, when Sid Vicious went solo, he’d do 2x 45 minute sets… the same 45 minutes of the same songs, played twice…

That sounds like a plan to me John Thanks. what i might suggest is a run through of the lot tomorrow and go from there ID The easy ,Difficult and ones that need a little work. there are 4 songs I have played before all be it a smidge faster and louder I think it’ll be good for me as I’ll need to reign it in a fair bit.
My normal set is 2 x 45 mins ish that with 10 – 15 songs in each. we used to do a set of our own stuff and a set of covers when we first started then mixed it up.

Our ex guitaristin a band he was in years ago used to do one set then go off and have some errrr shall we say “medication” then play the same set backwards and faster.