Post Gig Review

As you saw from the previous post, the boys had their school concert last week where the audience witnessed the debut public performance from Netic. The boys had been practising for weeks but as they took their positions I was probably more nervous than them.

The school have their own drum kit so we only had to lug the guitar and two amps up. The boys were second on the bill after a group of recorder players, so not your typical support act. Luke got things going with his drum intro and Jake and Daniel both came in perfectly. Just as we were breathing a sigh of relief, disaster; Luke's drum pedal slipped on the wooden floor and everything ground to a halt. We had told them previously just to keep on playing through any mistakes but this was definitely a song stopper and I felt so sorry for them. One of the teachers jumped in and volunteered to hold the pedal in place, the headmaster explained the technical hitch and re-introduced them for a second attempt. And all credit to them, they played right through faultlessly. As you can hear on the video, everyone loved it.

They should have been the headliners in my unbiased, objective, impartial and balanced opinion. Seriously though, whilst I would have to concede that some of the other perfomers were technically better, the boys performance was by far, the most entertaining and original. As the other kids who had been watching filed out of the hall at the end, I heard one of them say "Luke, Jake and Daniel really rock" to which several others  agreed, which wasn't surprising because they really did ROCK.