The Gig - The Lead Up (Part 1)
The Paddy's Day Bash
Building our Church with God Alone
We serendipitously found ourselves a gig in 2025, the Annual Paddy's Day Bash with DeadCult Promotions. After a year of hard work preparing and recording our single, designing and curating a setlist and perfecting the timings, tones and vibe for the set; we are ready. I am writing this a few days out from the actual gig, butterflies abounding and excitement at fever pitch. We have worked tirelessly to get ourselves ready for this gig. Every member of this band has long-standing experience of performing, not just locally either. However, this gig means more. It certainly does to me and that's because of the group and the concerted effort. We cannot wait to join Uragh and God Alone on the stage.
Set Design and Curation
How do you build a set? Well, firstly get your timings right. If you have 30 minutes, you can't go over 30 minutes. Build in time for crowd killing (A John Lennon Trademark), technical mishaps, tuning and water breaks for pacing. We aim to keep our set tight and high energy with a rush of our thrashiest, heaviest air movers; Tomorrows, Converge and Aperture. These are followed by a slight tonal shift with our songs Cascade and Diviner which harken back to a more chiptune eras of inspiration. Diviner was also entered into a competition to form part of the CyberPunk 2077 universe. We close with Retcon, an atmospheric synthwave, post-rock chord fest that ends the set on a high.
Practice and Preparation
The old adage says that practice makes perfect. This cannot be understated when performances are concerned. We have been practicing our set continually and even micro-analysing areas for tightness and performance improvement. Our advice; get in a room where you can play loud and thrash about for a bit. The space to create and work out tones and set pace will be invaluable to all bands starting out.
The Set
- Tomorrows
- Converge
- Aperture
- Cascade
- Diviner
- Retcon
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