Veni, Vidi, Vici

TEMOS live. It happened. Last weekend. And it was awesome. First up, a huge thank you to every single person who showed up - we truly appreciate you coming out, and if you had even half as much fun as we did then it was well worth it. Thank you! Next we must extend our thanks to Raw Sugar for hosting us. We owe you a huge debt. Merci.

So how was it? Well! At seven o'clock we'd moved some tables around and started setting up. For those of you who haven't performed in a rock and roll outfit, 95% of "setting up" involves messing with the vocal mics. Louder. Louder. Feedback. Woops. Quieter. Louder. Repeat for as much time as you have available for setting up. While doing this Andy and Matt decided to "test" the mics by yelling and throat singing into them as loudly as possible. It was at this exact moment that two very nice, middle aged ladies wandered in, looking lost.

"Oh, we heard about your cafe in the newspaper..." confusion. Fear of catching a disease.
Me: "ahhh, yes, it's an excellent cafe, the best in town. But tonight there's a rock show, do you ladies want to rock out with us?"
"Hmm. Maybe not today." they leave. Nadia, I'm sorry. I told them to come back on Sunday afternoon and I guaranteed them that there would be no rocking whatsoever. Don't have made a liar of me.

So we tried a song out, and discovered that one of the speakers was shorting out pretty consistently. Nice. We attempted to fix it, but failed miserably. This would haunt us later.

So people congregated, and before we knew it there were WAY more than the thirteen people we'd been expecting.

First off Shane Whitbread got things started with an ambient guitar set. It was excellent, and a mighty fine way to start things off. Some people stared, enchanted. Others went on with their business - negotiating multi-million dollar deals and such. This is as it should be, for you see ambient music is meant to be just that. Shane did it up proper.

Visit Shane here.

Next up was Male Nurse. He whipped up a floor stomping fury and entertained to no end. He was so into the thing, so caught up in the life that is rock and roll that he SHATTERED a guitar string. These things are made of coiled steel; it takes great strength to destroy them. Unfortunately I panicked and handed him my guitar as a replacement, forgetting that my guitar is set up rather insanely. Woops. Nonetheless, he also did a fantastic job, and pleased the crowd. He also let the feline out of its sack, in that he revealed the true origin of TEMOS's name. That anyone even knew is astounding! Well done, sir.

Visit Male Nurse here. And check out his highly ambitious song-a-day project here.

A huuuuuge thanks to both Shane and Davey for playing - you both made the night a success, and on little notice, with no thought of politcal gain. Yes!

I enjoyed both openers a whole lot, but when they were through the moment of truth arrived... there was no escaping the inescapable fact of being on. Next.