Best UK guitar player

Best UK guitar player
Posted by: missesnice.

Hello,
I uploaded the pictures of last Sunday gig at the Astoria. Click on Gallery and follow instructions. The key is "Astoria".
See u soon

Results of the UK final at the Astoria

Hell(o) everyone,
I guess you already know what I'm gonna write. It is a big disappointment for us all! And we can't stop thinking "Why the hell people didn't move their ass to the Astoria on Sunday?"
As the two first rounds, the votes were depending on the number of tickets we sold, the audience coming for us, etc.. Plus the fact that MN was playing at 6PM. Overall, we had no chance.
But we were there, still hopefull that the organisation would be worth it, that as they promised, important people in the music business would be there...
Meeting was set at 12.00PM. We soon found out that even the technicians chose that time to begin to set up lights, equipment, drum kit, etc... A chance to have a sound check was getting null!!
I'll skip the details for the beginning of the concert and other bands.
Our fans begin to arrive by 4PM. It was nice to see familiar faces, especially John's mum, Fred's family (Dad, sister and brother), Nico's mum and Francoise, Francois (former Belgian MN bass player), Karim (one of Nico's best friend), Olivier and Sophie (Nico's friend from Paris), Rico and friend (Our favourite Barman), Jim, Paul and John (from the Brian Wilson fans), and all our friends from the Canterbury university (I can't start to name them all...), Xi and Christian (from my work), Nico's students, etc... We had a good audience, very motivated, singing, dancing, clapping their hands, etc...Even sober!! The last bands had screaming people but only because they were drunk!!!
5.50PM: Their turn... They begin with the usual intro, then Hello, Babe, Vivaldi, Melody and finished by the Barman + very meta outro!
From Hello, I was beginning to regret they didn't have a sound check! We couldn't hear Nico's voice, John was so loud!! I went to see that F*** B*** of sound engineer. At first she was panicking, trying all sort of things, causing many feedbacks in our poor ears... Then I told her, we couldn't hear Nico and she just replied "Me neither..." doing nothing!!!! At least she adjusted everything for Babe but Hello had been F***!!!
Came Vivaldi... A bit of stress, a few missing notes, but nothing wrong. Everyone was again extremely proud to be part of it just to listen to them playing this classical piece. Perfect. Melody, the next big hit (for the 6th year...) was also perfect.
The votes were a scam as usual!! They didn't count everything, I saw none of them counting my hand, they seemed to have counted until the middle!!!
Then, we waited, we waited until 1AM having to bear the other bands!!! The results were announced and as we expected MissesNice was even not given a chance to be judged by the "specialists" because we didn't sold enough tickets!!!!
But at least they recognised the talent and gave the "BEST UK GUITAR PLAYER AWARD" to Nico!!! From 800 bands, more than a 1000 guitar players, Nico is sacred the BEST!!!
So thank you Emergenza for not being stupid 100%! You've realised that biggest audience means money, not talent!
Thank you a 1000times to all the people who came from all over UK, from Belgium and Paris, and F*** u all others who just had to take a tube and didn't bother to do it! You just missed your chance to earn a free back stage when Tickets for MissesNice will be at £60 and you'll have to queue hours, maybe days to hope getting 1...

Day D-2

Latest details:

Sunday 24th July at the Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, London
WC2 0EN

Doors open at 3PM

First band on at 4.35PM

MissesNice on at 5.50PM

Last band on at 11.15PM

Ticket is at £9. Either come to me, or send me an email by clicking on
"Contact us" or call us, if you have my, Fred's, Nico's or John's
number!!!

Or buy a ticket at the door, same price but say that you're coming for
MissesNice.

In the venue, come and see me, I'll have a pink tee shirt with
MissesNice written on it!! And I'll give you some fluorescent stuff to
glow all night!!!

People from the music industry confirmed to come are:

Pietro Moroni (booking Taubertal
Festival)

Alessia Gallo (booking Basilicando Festival)

Michael Cartin (Pulse unsigned)

Dom Fairbanks (Fairbanks Endorsement)

Dougie Bruce (Sony A&R)

Rob Dentith (Kerrang Radio)

Kevin Harding (Mass Record- Universal)

Alec Dwonie (Nemis)

Mark Beaumont (NME)

David Dollimore (A&R Ministry Of Sound)

Tony Hobden (SuperSonic)

Sally Brestin (UMTV - Universal UK)

Jane Day ( A&R Polydor)

Mark Hughes (Virgin Megastore)

Mark Flanagan ( SC & T-In The Park)

Sarah Flemings (Virgin - V-Festival)

Expose magazine

Timmy Vegas (South Central production)

+ Channel 4 cameras!!!

So, I think it's gonna be BIG. All the people who intend
to come, I want to see you screaming, singing, dancing, wearing weird
funny outfits, anything that could make us different from the other
bands!!!

See u there

MNPA/PR :)

Day D-4

Hi everyone,

Sunday will be an historic date in MissesNice history: They will be playing for the first time in their career at the Mean Fiddler-Astoria2. VERY IMPORTANT, U DONT WANT TO MISS THAT!!!

On stage between 4.30 and 6.30PM (although I reckon they will be on at 5.50PM), ticket is £9!!!!

Bring your friends, relatives, pets, etc... anything that can make some noise for MissesNice!!!!

See u there

MNPA/PR

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson
Posted by: missesnice.

Now if this cow boy hat doesn't become a lucky charm,.....
Nico, don't forget it on the 24th...
For the story... Everybody knows that Nico is a big fan of the Beach Boys and its genius former leader Brian Wilson. Nico became the "Entertainer" for all the BB/BW fans playing and singing about 60 of the BB/BW hits at each of the get together or parties after concert. On the 28th of June, Nico and the fans were travelling from Liverpool to Dublin to follow their idole on tour. They realised soon that they were going to take the plane with the legendary Brian Wilson... During their journey, Brian took Nico's hat from his head and put it on his and posed for a couple of pictures. Nico is still in shock...