I'm sure that anyone who was there would agree that Tinyfish played an amazing semi acoustic set on Sunday lunchtime. Very entertaining! I am now looking forward to the full electric set on Jan 10th and would recommend buying tickets asap. Unfortunately, the exclusive EP that was only available to people on 21st, sold out. But, fortunately, I do have a copy :lol:
Sorry I didn't introduce myself to many people at the Frost* gig as I went home early with a tummy ache :( Nice to meet those I did tho'. :D
Yes, a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable set, with an added dimension from Leon's box of percussive electronic wizzardry.
I thought the Tinyfish set worked really well between the more intense Frost* and It Bites sets.
Can't wait for the 10th :D
Nice to meet you Nellie -sorry for buying a CD from you and not realising who you were!
I'm tempted to come to the tinyfish gig but I'm supposed to be in Paris, very very tempting though.
Quote from: "LivingForever"Nice to meet you Nellie -sorry for buying a CD from you and not realising who you were!
I'm tempted to come to the tinyfish gig but I'm supposed to be in Paris, very very tempting though.
That was Nellie selling the CD's? Bloody hell! Hello Nellie :D . I'd be very tempted to come along too but I have a previous booking some place oop north!
I know I didn't have a name badge on (as it was poo-pooed ;) ), but there was a public announcement by Simon who I thought had destroyed my anonymity, obviously not!!
Hello then :lol:
Hi Nellie,
Thanks for making yourself known to us at the weekend and thanks for handling our merch requirements so professionally. :)
Love the EP - just a shame that the signatures rub-off in metallic flakes that can find their way onto the disc and make it skip :(
Happy Christmas to all the fishy folk! :D
OMG!
What a hazzard (it wasn't my idea). :oops:
Aha!
Nellie = Nellie!
If I'd known that I'd have said hello... differently :lol:
Nice to have met you. Sort-of :P
Hi Nellie it's was good to meet you on Sunday and totally agree with you about Tinyfish's set which was just perfect for a Sunday afternoon.
Quote from: "Nellie"I know I didn't have a name badge on (as it was poo-pooed ;) ), but there was a public announcement by Simon who I thought had destroyed my anonymity, obviously not!!
Hello then :lol:
I heard it so knew who you where when I came to the merch table and any chance I have of anonymity goes right out of the window I could see the thought process going on in your head; Welsh accent+big camera= "you must be Mike" :)
A couple of days have passed and I can now be sure my first thoughts are indeed my veiw and not just "bigging it up" as part of a fantastic weekend. I thought at the time and still think that while different the Tinyfish acoustic set was every bit as good and perhaps even better than the full show, now the intimacy of the surroundings might have influenced my opinion somewhat and it's been a while since I've seen the full show. Big Kudos to Tinyfish for having the balls to get between Frost* and It Bites, do something different and do it so bloody well. I am mightily impressed Gentlemen.(again).
I loved it, especially as it was so much longer than the Borderline gig. I had thought there would have been a bigger turn out for it but was very happy to have a seat. A seat at the Peel - bizarre. :D
Sine Star Project were a bit Radiohead and not my sort of thing, they did impress a lot of the audience and seemed like a nice bunch of blokes.
I was very excited to see Tinyfish do an electric set for the first time in ages. Choice of getting wound up by the crusty cocks and having a hell of a long drive and/or spending money on accommodation v seeing new stuff by Tinyfish, I was very happy with my decision.
If you like Tinyfish, the new stuff is in the same vein, no radical departures, you're going to get Tinyfish. I am getting a tad impatient for the new stuff to be released.
Highlight for me as usual was watching the highly entertaining Leon who makes Animal seem quite placid.
Pics at my various places - myspace, facebook and photobucket - usual snap n shoot quality.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... Id=1712250 (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=166466854&albumId=1712250)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7 ... =708751330 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=71431&l=ce44e&id=708751330)
http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s295 ... %20100109/ (http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/ashleaze/Tinyfish%20100109/)
They are the same just whichever site you prefer to use. (For strange people that aren't on facebook)
This gig was a prelim to their Poland gig which will be recorded for a DVD. There were cameras around last night so stuff may surface at some point. It was also nice to see a scattering of Frost* hoodies around. :D The turnout for a freezing cold Jan eve when the CRS awards were on was actually very good.
Quote from: "Sarah"The turnout for a freezing cold Jan eve when the CRS awards were on was actually very good.
That's brilliant that! Glad you enjoyed it. How did the new stuff sound compared to the acoustic versions we had before xmas?
Most of the way home from Wath last night we played the "Special Christmas CD only available to you lucky people at the Peel House Of Progression on the Twenty-First Day of December 2008" CD. It is rather good and I'm actually liking it a touch more than the old songs and Sue? She has fallen head over heals in love with it. :D :D
Well the drumming is different ;)
I think I prefer what style I heard first - the first album I prefer electric, the second album acoustic and the third double album electric.
Oh and Rob is sacked. Leon is getting close.
I have to agree that:
Leon is insane
Tinyfish were brilliant
Rob is sacked/lovely depending on the video edit
New t-shirts are gorge.
Thank you to Twang et al for another splendid evening and congrats again for shafting the bigyuns!
Tinyfish have to be one of the most entertaining bands on the circuit, and that is even before they start to play. There is a brilliant sense of humour running through the band which is well appreciated by their audience. This gig started with Tim on the sounddesk trying to get Simon Godfrey's guitar synth to work, and being introduced to the audience for his pains, before we hear the 'Japan tribute band' side to Tinyfish. Thankfully Rob Ramsay was able to take the stage and restore some order with the intro to a very tight Motorville. And so we were off, "We are Tinyfish. Sorry" - and here they were playing a warm up show for the gig in Poland, playing quite a few songs from "all three albums". Hands up who thought there was only one album...but Curious Thing will be released at the Poland gig, and then there will be The Big Red Spark, and we got that title track now - lots of layers, Leon Camfield using both his full drum kit and his electronic box of tricks, and its a hard, heavy number with a sublime guitar solo from Jim Sanders. Next up was Build Your Own Enemy, with Leon making the point, "haven't we monkeyed with this song and changed it ? Possibly when I wasn't listening" - do Poland know what is coming their way ? New song time, even though Leon had spent all week learning the wrong song, and Simon was debuting a new guitar (the out of tune guitar), and the sense of nervousness because this was a long song (I timed it at 10 minutes), and we got a long intro of baths, loofahs, triple word scores as Simon told us he had asked Rob for a song about something everyday that everyone could relate to, so this was a song about impotence. Wide Awake At Midnight, a song about insomnia, is a real toe-tapper, with some heavy stuff from Paul Worwood's bass over the top of some lighter work from Jim, very reminiscent of Steve Rothery's work around Season's End for me (and that's a very good thing, by the way), and some drum parts from Leon which had something of a Rush feel to them for me - and maybe more use of his electronic box of tricks than the rest of the band were expecting, because it has over 900 sounds in it, Poland want an hour and a half set, so "welcome to the test bed". I hope no-one missed the Run To The Hills moment. Eat The Ashes is a track from the Curious Thing album and tonight we heard it with the ROCK intro, before Tinyfish resident 7 year old suggested the name be changed to Eat The Asses. A mention of 50% of the loyal fanbase buggering off to Canada led to Simon saying it was 9 months since they had last played an electric gig, Leon asking if they should now set someone on fire, and the band launching into a blistering version of Nine Months On Fire, with a quite stunning breaks before the softer sections - seriously a wow moment. Ride is another new song, and as Simon usually dedicates new songs when they are played he asked Rob who this should be dedicated to, and Rob said Bill Hicks, because that is who it is about. But Simon had decided to dedicate this one to Rob, and said so...just as Rob had left the main room. So, Rob, you cock, you're fired. Simon then started off in the wrong key...karma. This is a softer track into a soaring guitar solo, and featured the ELC tambourine. For me, this had been a 'noisy' gig, with a lot of chatter among the audience both through the tracks as well as inbetween songs, and part way through Driving All Night I have to admit I cracked and had my shut up moment, turning to those behind me and telling them in no uncertain terms to shut up so I could hear the band - I think what particularly annoys me is that there is another room within the venue where you could go and chat and still hear the band. Or you could just go and join the strippers. Too High For Low Company served to welcome us to the Tinyfish open rehearsal, before we were told that Rob ("he's not a tramp...yet") would be coming back on during the next track, and Leon wondered if Simon was going to tell us this was the last song of the set. Simon admitted that as a band they are not very good at handling the concept of encores, Leon perhaps voicing a more succint point that for the gap before an encore they could either stay on stage or go back into the area with Ramsey - and they finished with an excellent Fly Like A Bird. Sadly, the encore was not Iron Maiden's Can I Play With Madness, but instead was Sine Star Rocks, "Baby, you don't have to. Baby, Sine Star rocks." and All Hands Lost finished with You are the weakest link, goodbye, and an exceptional gig was brought to a close. The band sound in excellent form and have a quality setlist as they prepare to take Poland.
Wow! Thanks for that excellent write up. :)
If I hadn't been in Wath watching the other sibling I would have been there like a shot.
I think it's pretty clear that if the planned CRS Tinyfish and Touchstone gig had happened in November, the awards list would probbaly have been a little different. ;)
I hope it's not too long until I get to see these great guys again.
Quote from: "Pedro"Wow! Thanks for that excellent write up. :)
If I hadn't been in Wath watching the other sibling I would have been there like a shot.
I think it's pretty clear that if the planned CRS Tinyfish and Touchstone gig had happened in November, the awards list would probbaly have been a little different. ;)
I hope it's not too long until I get to see these great guys again.
What Pedders said, 100%. It really is a shame these two gigs had to clash.
Quote from: "johninblack"It really is a shame these two gigs had to clash.
Tell me about it...and for me it also clashed with a Pineapple Thief gig in Leicester.
It does confirm my belief that from my musical interest point of view 2008 was excellent, but 2009 will be even better.
Quote from: "JamesA"but 2009 will be even better.
I do hope so.
wow! giant wall of text!
nice writeup, though! 8-)
Quote from: "rogerg"wow! giant wall of text!
I blame MySpace formatting...and my pure laziness when it then comes to cut and paste ;)
Someone tell me please - is it tinyfish or Tinyfish? Their website uses both, but Classic Rock and iTunes use the lower case version, with other people using the capitolised one.
Yes, I am the sad sort of person who would obsess over getting such a thing right... ;)
You could go to the forum and ask http://www.tinyfish.org/forums/index.php (http://www.tinyfish.org/forums/index.php)
I reckon it is a small t but due to people knowing that a name starts with a capital it is just habit to type a T. But my avatar t-shirt has a big T so maybe not.. :)
Nellie has done the deed - cos you all want to know...
http://www.tinyfish.org/forums/index.php?topic=226.0 (http://www.tinyfish.org/forums/index.php?topic=226.0)
So, capital "T" but we still wait news on the H (the one at the end that is). :D
Quote from: "Sarah"Nellie has done the deed - cos you all want to know...
http://www.tinyfish.org/forums/index.php?topic=226.0 (http://www.tinyfish.org/forums/index.php?topic=226.0)
Ta Nellie! And now commence hating me for wasting valuable time with my obsession for accuracy when concerning trivial matters. ;)
You're welcome! Hate is a very strong word. It wouldn't have been so bad if they would give a straight answer in the first place, bunch of nutters! :roll:
Paul being the least helpful of course :lol:
Well, I'll just have to remind him where his pain threshold is. Chinese burns are always effective. :twisted: