A Gig’s a Gig, Right?

ScreamingDave

So my new band get to play our second gig next weekend - at the village fete who’s village hall we rehearse in!  As I say, a gig’s a gig, right?  We’ve had a bit if a hiatus since our first gig nearly a year ago, partly due to busy lives, and partly due to the keyboard player undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery. I sh!t you not!

anyway, the quandry is, do we play it straight, or do I rise to the occasion and scream, “HELLO, GLASONBURY!!!!!” As we take to the stage?

mrkb

Surely it’s “ Hello Village People!”

fastonebaz

Play like there's 20000 people screaming your name. 

Roland

The advice I was given in business is “dress for the job you want, not the job you’ve got”. That’s what you have to do, even when you could count the audience on your fingers.

Stratavarious

Entertain. Impress….  take the pretty women home.

A gig’s a gig, Give ‘em your best. 

ScreamingDave

mrkb said:

Surely it’s “ Hello Village People!”

With my previous band we played a gig where we opened with YMCA dressed as the Village People, and we started with an announcement over the PA saying that the band couldn’t make it  tonight so some people from the village would be stepping in!

ScreamingDave

Roland said:

The advice I was given in business is “dress for the job you want, not the job you’ve got”. That’s what you have to do, even when you could count the audience on your fingers.

Oh, I agree. I always dress up for a gig. Not like fancy dress, or anything, but make an effort.  I figure the audience have made an effort to turn up, even if it just means they’ve paused their game long enough to come and see us, so they deserve for us to do the same. It’s just a personal thing,  but I hate seeing bands shamble on in the same jeans and cargo shorts they loaded in wearing 

ScreamingDave

!fastonebaz said:

Play like there's 20000 people screaming your name. 

I’ve got a recording of that! 

HAL9000

ScreamingDave said:

…or do I rise to the occasion and scream, “HELLO, GLASONBURY!!!!!”…

Surely it should be ‘Hello Cleveland!’

flying_pie

HAL9000 said:

ScreamingDave said:

…or do I rise to the occasion and scream, “HELLO, GLASONBURY!!!!!”…

Surely it should be ‘Hello Cleveland!’

You can just write the name of the place of a piece of paper, stick it to the back of your guitar and shout "Hello..." (awkward pause while you blatantly look at the back of your guitar....)

Jalapeno

I take anything these days as gigs are so infrequent post Covid

EricTheWeary

flying_pie said:

HAL9000 said:

ScreamingDave said:

…or do I rise to the occasion and scream, “HELLO, GLASONBURY!!!!!”…

Surely it should be ‘Hello Cleveland!’

You can just write the name of the place of a piece of paper, stick it to the back of your guitar and shout "Hello..." (awkward pause while you blatantly look at the back of your guitar....)

My son works for the company that runs two big venues in Birmingham and backstage on the walls in six foot high letters is the word BIRMINGHAM so it's the last thing the artist sees before hitting the stage. Yours is funnier though. 

EricTheWeary

Roland said:

The advice I was given in business is “dress for the job you want, not the job you’ve got”. 

...and yet when I went for that interview at Dudley council being dressed as Batman did me no favours. 

hollywoodrox

ScreamingDave said:

Roland said:

The advice I was given in business is “dress for the job you want, not the job you’ve got”. That’s what you have to do, even when you could count the audience on your fingers.

Oh, I agree. I always dress up for a gig. Not like fancy dress, or anything, but make an effort.  I figure the audience have made an effort to turn up, even if it just means they’ve paused their game long enough to come and see us, so they deserve for us to do the same. It’s just a personal thing,  but I hate seeing bands shamble on in the same jeans and cargo shorts they loaded in wearing 

I abhor seeing people gig in cargo shorts especially paired with crocs or those flip flop type shoes 
Anything , just anything is better than that .

flying_pie

EricTheWeary said:

flying_pie said:

HAL9000 said:

ScreamingDave said:

…or do I rise to the occasion and scream, “HELLO, GLASONBURY!!!!!”…

Surely it should be ‘Hello Cleveland!’

You can just write the name of the place of a piece of paper, stick it to the back of your guitar and shout "Hello..." (awkward pause while you blatantly look at the back of your guitar....)

My son works for the company that runs two big venues in Birmingham and backstage on the walls in six foot high letters is the word BIRMINGHAM so it's the last thing the artist sees before hitting the stage. Yours is funnier though. 

I wish I could take full credit but it's actually from the Spinal Tap episode of The Simpsons

Jalapeno

hollywoodrox said:

ScreamingDave said:

Roland said:

The advice I was given in business is “dress for the job you want, not the job you’ve got”. That’s what you have to do, even when you could count the audience on your fingers.

Oh, I agree. I always dress up for a gig. Not like fancy dress, or anything, but make an effort.  I figure the audience have made an effort to turn up, even if it just means they’ve paused their game long enough to come and see us, so they deserve for us to do the same. It’s just a personal thing,  but I hate seeing bands shamble on in the same jeans and cargo shorts they loaded in wearing 

I abhor seeing people gig in cargo shorts especially paired with crocs or those flip flop type shoes 
Anything , just anything is better than that .

Don't tell @Clarky

khaotic

flying_pie said:

HAL9000 said:

ScreamingDave said:

…or do I rise to the occasion and scream, “HELLO, GLASONBURY!!!!!”…

Surely it should be ‘Hello Cleveland!’

You can just write the name of the place of a piece of paper, stick it to the back of your guitar and shout "Hello..." (awkward pause while you blatantly look at the back of your guitar....)

"Hello...um... Madeinkorea!"