Can't sleep - ears still ringing

The Bullet Bar is a nice bar but a rubbish live venue. Not really a stage, just a corner, no lights to speak of (left half of the stage was basically in the dark, Slimelight was bright as day in comparison) and the sound system was cranked up so high that most of the speaker output was utterly distorted. Two notches lower and there wouldn't have been any distortion and everybody would still have been able to hear.

Still, the Texas Chainsaw Orchestra put on a great gig despite the cramped stage (14 people!) and the crowd went for it, too. Then there was a break, then a "dancer"/stripper and then "Vince Ray and the Bone Shakers". We only listened to two of their tracks because we couldn't stand the distorted noise anymore. Would have been good Rockabilly on a decent system, though.

A few photos tomorrow.

[Photo] TCO at Bullet Bar, Kentish Town

My ears feel like being packed in cotton wool but at least the background buzz is gone. If only I'd taken my earplugs or rather, the venue would have had a sound engineer who didn't think cranking up the system beyond distortion was a good thing and louder was better. :o/

There was basically no light, except from two or three LED spots on the right so I had to resort to flash most of the time, built-in flash at that as I'd left my flashgun at home. Oh well, some of them came out quite well.

  
 

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Even more on flickr (click any of the full size pics and then through the set).

Bloody Hell!

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