Last weekend we drove over 400 miles to play our biggest gig in Stee’s town of birth, good old Blackpool. Dear Acetate supporting the Proclaimers to me felt an odd match up as they are very acoustic and quite pleasant on the ears while we are very heavy live and recommend ear plugs to anyone watching us at the front of the crowd! After checking out the crowd before we went on stage it was clear we would be playing to an older audience and I tried to persuade Shane to tone down his drumming but he is a stubborn sod and said no. In hind sight I’m glad we went on stage and played an energetic, and frantic gig that was very much what Dear Acetate are about.
It was great to see an older crowd rocking out to our tunes even if a couple of people had their fingers in their ears! I’m pretty sure it had a lot to do with how loud we are rather than them not liking the songs lol
We will be uploading videos of the gig shortly and you can get check out pics of the gig right here.
Cheers
Marc
