green machine rehearsal
Rehearsal for the Green Machine gig at the Celtic Connections festival - taken at Berkeley Rehearsal Studios in Glasgow. This was the only opportunity to rehearse with the full band before the concert.Slightly disconcerting to have notes, rests, whole sequences of music changed at the last minute - even more disconcerting when this happened at the soundcheck on the night with half an hour left before the concert started!!
Still, in the end it went very well and seemed to have been well received. The Scotsman newspaper review of the gig talked about a tsunami of sound - now given that tsunamis are pretty destructive things, I'm not sure that was entirely complimentary!! The music is very interesting and enoyable to play though - a mixture of folk, jazz, heavy metal, sampling, dance... or as Martin Green himself describes it: "The Sound of a powerful yet beautiful hangover resulting from a night out dancing with Frank Zappa and Astor Piazzolla, each with a girl on their arm and Duke Ellington buying chasers at the bar…. "
You can check out some of it here...
green machine rehearsal
Rehearsal for the Green Machine gig at the Celtic Connections festival - taken at Berkeley Rehearsal Studios in Glasgow. This was the only opportunity to rehearse with the full band before the concert.Slightly disconcerting to have notes, rests, whole sequences of music changed at the last minute - even more disconcerting when this happened at the soundcheck on the night with half an hour left before the concert started!!
Still, in the end it went very well and seemed to have been well received. The Scotsman newspaper review of the gig talked about a tsunami of sound - now given that tsunamis are pretty destructive things, I'm not sure that was entirely complimentary!! The music is very interesting and enoyable to play though - a mixture of folk, jazz, heavy metal, sampling, dance... or as Martin Green himself describes it: "The Sound of a powerful yet beautiful hangover resulting from a night out dancing with Frank Zappa and Astor Piazzolla, each with a girl on their arm and Duke Ellington buying chasers at the bar…. "
You can check out some of it here...