Friday photos

Just a quickie to let you know the photos are now on our facebook page, simply log in and search for "rio 5" if you aren't already a fan (tut tut) I'll get them on the main website as soon as possible

Thanks for your support
Rio Five

Last night saw us take a big step toward the dream, we played the auditorium at The Winding Wheel, not as a support act but as the main event. The gig was to celebrate 20 years of Enable Housing, a local charity.

As you can see from the photos the Winding Wheel Auditorium is a nice large venue, in fact we've now played in each of the 3 rooms the veneu hires out, and this time we didn't need to use the ridiculously small and slow lift, so we rolled out the big guns, the 12k PA rig the drum riser, all the banners and roped in a local photographer to come and do his thing, check out http://www.artisanimage.co.uk/ for examples of his work, it's just a pity we couldn't use all the lights, lasers and smoke machine but there's always next time, just imagine it. We have some photos and videos coming so keep tuned into the website for them.

This really is what Rio Five are all about, the big band playing big songs on a big stage to a big audience and we loved every minute of it.

Thanks for your continued support and we hope to see you soon at another big event!

cars cars cars

2 very different phone calls today, one from our lead singer telling me we're using the uber-big rig on friday so we've all got to take our own gear in our own cars, so no drinking... and one to the car doctors to find out when i get mine back as it should've been back today... turns out it might not even be this week. not a happy bunny but hey ho.. one more day at work before the big gig! really can't wait for it

this year

so lets bring you up to date with our year ahead, we're playing in front of 300 people in the winding wheel, 500 folk at hathersage gala and 300 folk at birchover carnival in the summer and that's gonna be great

twitter and facebook

hello... we've neglected the blog a bit recently, twitter and facebook have taken over but now i have my shiny new phone and plenty of data we can put photos n stuff up here straightaway whilst at the gigs! love it