24/10/2024
Some words from IVUR about his first live gig at GLAMOUR TOUJOURS **Festival 2024** and the process leading there....
We are super happy we were part of this! ❤️ Their gig was freaking fantastic and we highly recommend these two talented individuals for future live shows!! 🔥🔥🔥
TLDR: It was super fun, will coninue playing live.
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Hey, folks! I wanted to write down some of my impressions of our first live show and the process towards our live setup.
When I released my first EP "ALPHA" I was quite surprised about the amount of positive feedback I got and how many people were showing interest in this little project.
Quite soon I got the first booking enquiries. As I had planned for this to be a studio project, I politely turned them down at first.
After some time I thought: Why not write some more songs an do this live as well?
This lead to the first problem: my voice. Will it hold out for a whoe live gig? I went through some really funky medical examination, found out what's wrong and how to work around it. So... voice: Check!
With this issue out of the way I came across the next issue: I'm a really lousy keyboard player and, well, I didn't want to be on stage alone. That's where FKV came into play. He liked my idea to team up for live shows and had lot's of drive to do this. As he has experience in playing live, that I lack, the technical side of our live concept is completely based on his knowledge.
We then thoroughly prepared the songs for a live experience show and for the gear we planned to use. We especially wanted to incorporate FKVs Juno 106.
Loads of rehearsals and a vinyl release on Young & Cold Records later, we headed out to our first gig, which turned out not to be the typical "support a band in your hometown and nobody cares about you" thing, but a full-blown festival abroad in the form of Glamour Toujours
And there were loads of people that came especially for our debut show - wow, no pressure!
At this point I was still holding off booking enquiries, because I wasn't sure if I will like the whole stage experience thing and If I want to continue playing live.
In Munich, a great festival crew of friends awaited us and it was a dream line-up for us, as we got to open for my friend Jack Duckworth and his wonderful solo act SOFT RIOT
When I was about to hit the stage, I thought: Soon the big black abyss of nervousness and stage-fright will come and swallow me at any moment. But it never came.
The whole gig went really well (from my point of view) and I had tons of fun on stage and the energy from the crowd was fantastic.
So, yeah, long story short. We will continue down this road and we are open for bookings!
Next stop: Waveteef Festival - Friday, April 18th 2025. How crazy is that?!?!?
And there's some additional news.... but more about that later.
