Friday 17 August 2012

Gig report: The British IBM @ BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Band: The British IBM
Venues: BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
Date: 17/08/12
Audience: No idea, my parents tuned in though for sure
Set: Animal, God's Front Porch plus lengthy interview and pre-recorded airplay of The British IBM and Sugar Water
Notes: I really enjoyed this one - we were guests on Tom Simkins' show (he was stepping in for Kerry Devine, who I was about to be on the bill with a couple hours later), Tom really has been championing our music for a while now and it's so nice when the host knows your stuff. Spoke briefly to the always lovely Sue Marchant beforehand (her show was on afterwards) and she pointed out that I'm always at the station with a band/project and might as well just live there - it's true, I've been in that studio a lot lately, and after a while you just don't get phased by these things and it's all very comfortable. We rehearsed acoustically last night, it was the first time we'd all met up since the tour, and it was genuinely nice to be back, and it also feels good to be acoustic again, we just seem to have more control somehow. Tom's interview with us was slick, and our performance tonight was as tight as we have ever been, a really decent session.

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