The Part Timers November Gigs

Its been a little while since our last update but we’ve a busy time during October,  gigging at several locations, The Plough as usual, The Grapevine event at The Clarendon Hotel in Wolverhampton, The Music King open day and The Junction in Harborne. Here is an update of our gigs in november which we would love you to attend!

The Part Timers at The Plough 1st Oct 2009

We’re back at The Plough in Harborne next Thursday, 1st October 2009 from 8pm! Come on down and enjoy a night of musical mastery, fun, drink, food and just the best entertainment in the Midlands!! Find our event on Facebook and become a fan.

Look forward to seeing you there!

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The Part Timers at The Junction in Harborne

Well what a bank holiday, firstly we had a great time at The Music King in Halesowen, but even more so at our gig at The Junction in Harborne. I think we definitely demonstrated why we could possibly be one of the best acoustic bands in the West Midlands, nay, the world! ha ha! The Junction was packed everybody was having a good and after a chilled out first half with songs like She Is Love, Better Together and other mushy acoustic tracks we went big in the second half!

Our acoustic gig at The Music King

Today we played a half hour acoustic set at The Music King in Halesowen. The set was part of The Music King‘s Music Feast; an open day with free food and drinks and 10% discount across the store. The event was well received with loads of people turning up. We played some fun covers and just had a bit a laugh really. We didn’t want to take it too seriously, so classics like Rocky Raccoon came out the bag we got the crowd smiling. We were playing outside in a cool make shift stage, inside the doorway of The Music King warehouse. The weather was on and off but people managed to stay outside during our set even with the wind and cloud cover! My new Dovetail acoustic strings held up great, they are really nice to play with and sound awesome on songs like Wind Cries Mary and All Along the Watchtower.

The Part Timers and Dovetail Strings

The Part Timers & Dovetail Strings

Great news, we were approached by a company who make guitar strings called Dovetail Strings asking if we would be interested in endorsing their strings. Interested, I sent them an email asking to know a bit more and before I know it I have got my hands on 5 sets of strings, 2 x electric and 3 x acoustic for me to try out. I’m actually pretty excited as I’ve always used Ernie Ball Slinkys, and now I have the excuse to try something new and I have to say I am impressed. Going to test them out this weekend when we play at The Music King in Halesowen and The Junction in Harborne.

New Gigs: The Junction in Harborne and The Music King

NEW GIGS: The Music King & The Junction

Well its been a busy few weeks for The Part Timers with rehearsals, being in the studio and a couple of private gigs. Now for the last weekend of the month another two gigs! That’s right we’re pushing the boat out and doing Saturday and Sunday at The Music King in Halesowen and The Junction in Harborne.

Rocking at The Plough

Last night was our third gig at The Plough in Harborne and what a night again. We had such a good time, its was amazing. Everyone was joining into our covers and we had loads of really good comments about our own songs too, especially “Fly Away.” But waking up this morning was not something I had anticipated being so hard when I eventually fell asleep at 2am. I really didn’t want to get out of bed, you forget sometimes how tiring at 3 hour gig can be! But anyway it went really well and I can’t wait for The Part Timers to get their next set of dates in at The Plough, we will keep you posted… On another point about our gigs, you will notice on the home page our next gig is this Saturday 8th August, want to know more?

The Part Timers Next Gig

Well its that time of the week again to do a post about what we’ve been upto and what’s going on for The Part Timers band in and around Birmingham and the West Midlands. A couple of things really, we have been in the studio and have a gig tomorrow and Saturday. We now have a plan of action in place to get some more gigs booked in, and it has been worth the wait for our Demo CD.

The Part Timers at Grapevine and studio

The Part Timers at The Grapevine

We’ve just had the confirmation, that The Part Timers Acoustic Band, will be playing at 8pm on Saturday the 8th of August at the event we have been invited to play in Wolverhampton. “The Grapevine” is a get-together of local bands in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the West Midlands, comprising of 12 live acts; rock, folk and acoustic, 6 DJs an art exhibition and more, it promises to be quite a good afternoon and night! And finally we have booked some studio time too!

Bands in Birmingham

The Part Timers are on a mission to become one of the top bands in Birmingham. Having secured a regular gig at The Plough in Harborne, with our next gig there on the 6th of August, we are now looking around for new venues and getting ourselves around to book up new gigs and events.I have been busy submitting our blog to new directories and forums and working on our Facebook and Twitter accounts to build up The Part Timers following in Birmingham.