So folks, it's been a while since I've been on here. (Hopefully!) planning on a move to London before or after Christmas. I'm in Ireland at the moment, in a town/small city of roughly 100,000.
It's easy to get to gigs. I stick the gear in the back of the car and away I go. There aren't any congestion charges and it's easy enough to pull up outside a venue to load in and load out.
I would imagine, without a car, it's darn near impossible to carry a guitar, a pedal board and a combo around on public transport!
I played a gig in Brixton a few years back, and the gear was hired and delivered to the location. It was a unique situation though, a showcase type of gig.
How do folk manage on a week to week basis gigging? Do you confine your travels to an area in or around where you are living to make it easier? Or is it a case that venues will have backlines and you just turn up with your guitar and pedals and so on?
If/when I make the move getting into the music scene is something I'd like to do from the off, but I won't be bringing the chariot with me.
I take it rehearsals in London would mainly be in rehearsal spaces unless you're living in a semi D well into the burbs?
Yes, I will be one of those pesky immigrants.
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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I'd recommend getting a Kemper and just using that.