You Are Not Us! http://youarenotus.posterous.com Bristol based math rock four piece posterous.com Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:42:00 -0700 Croft Gig http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/03/last-night-was-fun.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/03/last-night-was-fun.html

Last night was fun. We had the biggest audience we've ever had, fumbled our way through the new material, raced through the rest, and redeemed ourselves with a fine rendition of Iceberg Girl at the end. We'll post up some pictures soon. Thanks to Jeff AKA Manic F for recommending us to Light of Words, and thanks to Light of Words for having us. Both the other bands were great, but Jeff, AKA Manic F, despite skipping CD, was awesome.

Manic F

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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:16:00 -0800 Yanu is Broke / Gig Looming / New Song / Guitar Trivia http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/12/yanu-is-broke-gig-looming-new-song.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/12/yanu-is-broke-gig-looming-new-song.html Sadly the £50 that Yanu has so far earned in its vainglorious career has run out. We spent the last tenner yesterday at our regular practice room The Muse Rooms. We had an excellent practice in which we sounded tight, and ready for the Louisiana gig on Thursday. As mentioned before we will be supporting EMI-signed The Corrections.

It should be a good gig - we've always wanted to play the Louie as a band. The other band Ali drums in, Kabuki Mono, played there a week or two ago and he said that the sound-desk did a wonderful job - so we should be sounding good - for those of you who were dissapointed at the aural soup on offer at the Fleece gig.

We also worked up a new song yesterday, working title: "Ben's Pop." It's based around an arpeggiated A Minor with a traditional verse chorus structure and Yanu's trademark dynamic build. It then breaks down to an unexpected A Minor/F Major 'chill out room' before vamping out on an equally surprising A Minor / D7/11 curve-ball. As yet, no lyrics.

In other news, I've reinstated a my blonde Telecaster as my guitar of choice, having replaced the unwieldy 11-gauge strings with some 10s.

Blonde Tele

I'm now putting the whole guitar and pedal board through my ART Tube pre-amp, which is giving it warmth, tonal fullness, and a little overdrive. It was sounding really good.

ART Tube Pre-Amp

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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:31:00 -0700 Debut Gig - 10th Oct 2007 - Oppo http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/09/debut-gig-10th-oct-2007-oppo.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/09/debut-gig-10th-oct-2007-oppo.html The YANUs have been booked to play Oppo. This will be our first gig. Oppo doubles as a poetry venue and coffee shop, but apparently we can be as loud as we want.

Having spent the summer doing everything apart from jamming and practising we are making last minute efforts to get match fit. We got together for the first time in months last night at Muse Rooms and found that a summer of slacking had matured our sound and lent a certain tightness. Hopefully this will last until the 10th.

We are due to go on stage at 2300Hrs.

We are very excited.

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