The Tudor Hotel – Review

Posted by TTBoom on Feb 23, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments

Our first return to Castle Donington’s Tudor Hotel since we discovered our gig was cancelled when we arrived at the venue shortly before last Christmas, anyone remember last Christmas….thought not. The Tudor Hotel is a friendly family run business owned by Mick & Carol Oakey and we were offered the chance to set up in the large restaurant room, at last… a decent size stage area to enjoy.

This was our first gig using our new ‘wireless in ear monitors’ and we were all agreed this technology helped us a lot. The ‘stage area’ can be an awesomely noisy place, not only do the band have the PA system to deal with but a back line of guitar & bass amplifiers blasting out, not to mention a drum kit and all of this fed back to the guys via floor monitors, like I say, noisy man. In Ear Monitors are just like the headphones you get with iPods and the like, only much more advanced and better quality. The idea of using ‘in ears’ is that you can do away with floor monitors and set the in ears up so we can clearly hear what each of us is playing and have the vocals coming through loud and clear, important when we backing singers are harmonising with our frontman Mick. All pro bands and artistes use this system and a lot of semi-pro bands are starting to switch over to them, so if you see wires sticking our of our tabs, at least you’ll know what they are.

The gig went well as usual, it was a big room so we could have done with a few more bodies, though it did get busier later on, a big thanks to our travelling army, you know who you are.

Venue Owner Mick Oakey was kind enough to say the band was ‘awesome’ and he promptly booked us to return on 13th June to play for the expected large crowd on the eve of the Donington Download Festival which opens the next day, we are looking forward to that, thanks Mick.