Oops, I forgot to put the notice up here about a show we had in Second Life at The Notes Shack Pub yesterday. We were test driving a new live concert visual, which worked pretty well.
See details at my real life blog <a href=”http://www.loulou.therails.ca/” target=”_blank”>Loulou Downtown Blog</a>
Thanks
xo Lolly
Hello. The Rails Band, a three person original punk(ish) rock band from Toronto, streaming live today, with a full avatar show in Second Life, at The Notes Shack
2pm slt (=5pm EST, 10pm GMT)
Thanks!
Hello 
Please consider coming to this, our first full-band show ever to be held in Second Life at a later time! We will be performing at The Notes Shack pub at 5pm slt (=8pm EST, 1am GMT).
Hope you like our wall photo!:
Location in Second Life: The Notes Shack
Listening in from anywhere? Plug this URL into your favourite media player (such as Windows Media Player, which is a free download) : http://gold.slserver.com:8026
ps: This option is like listening to the radio … we won’t know you’re there, so check it out and if you don’t like it, just turn it off!
Thanks!
Hello! Happy Wednesday. The Rails Band will be in-world today performing at The Notes Shack Pub. The show starts at 2pm Second Life time (=5pm EST, 9pm GMT). Hope you can come.
The line-up will include Lolly Gladstone on keyboards and vocals, Jeremy Barracuda on guitar and harmonies, Chops Baxton on drums.
Location in Second Life: The Notes Shack
Listening in from anywhere? Plug this URL into your favourite media player (such as Windows Media Player, which is a free download) : http://gold.slserver.com:8026
ps: This option is like listening to the radio … we won’t know you’re there, so check it out and if you don’t like it, just turn it off!
Thanks!
The 4th Anniversary Party at Fride Club was a great success. Well, that is all except for the complete crash halfway through our set which shut the show down, and shaky graphics after things got back on-line. It seems that all of Second Life went down for about 15 minutes, with no advance warning. But we were happy to get back in pretty quickly and finish up with two more songs. Usually, in our experience, when a crash of such magnitude happens it takes hours to get everything back on-line.
We were happy for party organizers and club owners, Midnattsdotter Fride and Zelator Baphomet, that the event was able to continue because a lot of effort had been put into it make it a fun time. It was planned well in advance and it would have been very unfortunate if it hadn’t been able to proceed. The set design, featuring a Super Mario Brothers Theme, was put up specifically for the party and was so cute. It really felt like we were right inside the game, particularly since Mario, Princess Peach and Luigi were there!
Zelator
Midnattsdotter
I stayed and listened to all the performers in the line-up (Hazideon Zarco, Strum Diesel, AM Quar) and thought the music was excellent. This was a high quality event all ’round and we were honoured to be invited to participate. Also, the people at Fride Club are always very friendly and very nice!
Jeremy B … see what I mean about wonky graphics after the crash? This is how Jeremy came back, wearing some weird combination of graphics. But he kind of looked like he went with the game though! And the puff of smoke that was Strum Diesel during his performance (in the first picture)? .. let’s just say it was not how he had planned to look.
Hello Jeremy and I are happy to say we will be doing a gig today at Fride Club at 12pm slt (=3pm EST, 8pm GMT)! It is their 4th year anniversary party and the place looks fantastic, decorated in a Mario Brothers theme! Hope you can come.
We will be kicking off the event and will be followed by. Here is the full schedule for this fun event:
12-1PM SLT The Rails (Toronto, Canada) – Indie Rock Band
1-2PM SLT Hazideon Zarco (Kentucky, US) – Rock / Blues
2-3PM SLT Strum Diesel (Georgia, US) – Urban Folk /
3-4PM SLT AM Quar (Montreal, Canada) – Blues Rock
It’s a day for Super Mario lovers too with a contest for the 3 Top Super Mario Characters!Or come as you are with your party spirit attached!
The show is brought to you by Midnattsdotter Fride and Zelator Baphomet.
In-world in Second Life teleport to: Fride Club
Fride Club & Lounge – Midgard, Legolas (99, 215, 1501)
Or anyone can listen in by plugging this URL into your media player (such as Windows Media Player, which is a free download) : http://gold.slserver.com:8026
Thanks!
Hello Back after after couple of weeks, Loulou and Nick of The Rails Band are ready to play! Known as Lolly Gladstone and Jeremy Barracuda in Second Life, we will perform a one hour show, with a full avatar show.
If you have an avatar come on out to : The Rails Nightclub
Or anyone can listen in by plugging this URL into your media player (such as Windows Media Player, which is a free download) : http://gold.slserver.com:8026
The show begins at 5pm EST (=2pm Second Life Time, 9pm GMT)
Thanks a lot!
Photograph by Sarah Thompson
Jeremy and I were excited to set our alarm clock and get up in the middle of the night on Tuesday, to catch one of the first shows of an ‘almost’ real life friend in Second Life. Greg Ellis is a longtime rl friend of our drummer Chops, so while we have not met him yet, I’m sure we will one day soon!
Greg first came to Second Life a few months ago, to check out what exactly his buddy Chops was up to playing with The Rails within this virtual medium. Readers of this blog will have seem many photos of him in recent posts, as he has been an appreciated visitor to our shows. Extra appreciated, in fact, because he has also brought a bunch of new friends to the shows too!
And being a musician himself he saw what a wonderful place it is for him to perform himself! So he set out to do so.
We had never heard him before so were delighted to hear him sing and play guitar. He sounded excellent and had a great turnout at the venue called The Source.
Way to go, Greg!! Welcome big time.
Check out one of his shows. You can find him in-world under the name GregEllisToronto Resident.
Lolly (me)
Jeremy Barracuda
Hello. A quick message to say that we will not be doing our usual Wednesday live-stream show today. See you next week Thanks
Hello Please join us for an hour long live stream today, with a full avatar show at The Notes Shack Pub. It’s always a good time at The Shack!
Time = 5pm EST (Toronto time), 2pm SLT (Second Life time), 9pm GMT (Europe time)
Location in Second Life: The Notes Shack
Listening in from anywhere? Plug this URL into your favourite media player (such as Windows Media Player, which is a free download) : http://gold.slserver.com:8026
ps: This option is like listening to the radio … we won’t know you’re there, so check it out and if you don’t like it, just turn it off!
Thanks!