Funeral Gig!!

Flanging_Fred

At short notice my band have been asked to play at a wake. We're covers band and they must want to have a bit of a knees-up as they wouldn't book us in the first place. However it feels a little... uncomfortable.

Mrs Fred gave me an icy stare when I suggested that I dress as the grim reaper. I've worn various costumes playing at that venue and it's becoming a bit of s 'thing' for me now.

Suggestions on band etiquette and possible songs to cover please!

Trotter

Going underground - The Jam?....

fields5069

If there's been a cremation: Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

fields5069

Or Disco Inferno

vasselmeyer

Ghostbusters

Majorscale

Party like its 1999?

FreddieVanHalen

The Specials, Ghost Town
Cutting Crew, Died in Your Arms
Blue Oyster Cult, Don't Fear the Reaper

builttospill

this!

Legionreturns

Alive... Pearl Jam

Teetonetal

I'll sleep when I'm dead - Bon Jovi
Anything by Funeral for a friend.

Flanging_Fred

We do a couple of Jam songs so 'going Underground' is a good shout and 'Ghost town' is a song that keeps popping up on our 'to do' list so maybe we should just get on with it 

Fretwired

Knockin' on heavens door ... Alice Cooper's I love the dead ..

shuikit

Every breath you take

tone1

You could just play an entire album....Queen-Sheer Heart Attack...or drop dead gorgeous by Elastica 

bluechargeboy

Highway to Hell

djspecialist

Life'll Kill Ya - Warren Zevon

DiscoStu

Down Down - Quo

Flanging_Fred

DiscoStu said:

Down Down - Quo

Haha,  we do that one on occasion!

ICBM

Stairway To Heaven.

Probably the only time you'll ever get to play it outside a Zep tribute band…

Or anything by HIM.

Rocker

Goodbye Norma Jean. [Elton John]

Start me up [Rolling Stones]

Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]

EricTheWeary

Flanging_Fred said:

We do a couple of Jam songs so 'going Underground' is a good shout and 'Ghost town' is a song that keeps popping up on our 'to do' list so maybe we should just get on with it 

We do Ghost Town, clears a dance floor like you wouldn't believe.
If you can find the Dead Sixties version ( ooh, another band to cover for this gig...) on YouTube that's more guitar oriented and a bit more uptempo. They do however miss out a section and repeat the first verse for the second. Other than that probably the one to go for.