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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
"Nobody is really researching robot jokes"
Must admit never had that one !
Get there, he goes to be sick again, then we go on and they tell us we can have a double-length set because the guy playing after us didn't show up.
But yeah, I think monquixote wins the prize for resilience in the face of adversity...
I wouldn't really recommend it.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The one where at the end of the night they said they would only pay half. Shitty little venue, although gig had gone well. Our singer/ mild mannered school teacher was pissed ( in both senses) and threatened to start smashing the place up. Amazingly they paid up.
Then there was, IIRC, The Swan.I'll have to come back to that one but...shudders...
That legal substance which makes us uninhibited and dance a lot also makes us into violent knobbers. Such is our lot.
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We did a free festival gig in our first year (when we weren't so choosy). It rained horizontally onto the stage and I was playing an amp I'd built myself. The only time I've been more frightened was when someone literally swung an axe over my head - I was playing the guitar but it wasn't at a gig so it doesn't count.
In my first gigging band we had an alcoholic drummer who got to the venue 3 hours early. One time he thought it would be a good idea to stand on the tables and do a "tambourine solo". I was stood in front of the door with a -5 wind blowing through every time someone walked in. We played so fast that our normal first 45 was done in 30ish.. we didn't have enough material. This was the first time my missus (now Mrs Mudslide) came to see us...
Big pub, really,really busy. No where to park ( the pub had no car park, it had a loading bay but that was blocked and it was by a main road so no on street parking)we had to circle around waiting for spaces on the pay and display outside the Co op next door.
Had to carry everything about 100 yards and then through the pub. Two electrical sockets to power everything. They hadn't advertised the gig so no one very interested in us, although lots of punters.
Gents loo was equal numbers people going to the loo and people snorting cocaine off the surfaces around the sinks. Our female band member refused to go in the Ladies.
There was a bloke going round the pub most of the evening stealing to order from the Co op.
Various falling over drunk old men and a few times we had to physically remove them as they fell over the monitors.
Lots of arguments and minor scuffles around the place. At one point someone got glassed in the face and an ambulance came. Whilst we were concerned the locals hardly seem to notice.
Halfway through the gig the PA went out. Quickly traced back to a young woman unplugging it to use the socket for her phone charger.
At the end of the gig having to carry everything back through a packed and rather scarey pub and the 100 yards back to the cars.
We did get paid and we didn't get hurt but we didn't accept the invitation to go play there again.
takes coke does she?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
^^ Which district is that Eric? incredible stuff... my co guitarist would love to play there.. he calls it "proper gigging".
We played The Royal Oak in Cheadle (Staffs not Manc) - the landlord said "When it kicks off, just keep playing"... not "if" but "when" and he was right.. glasses aots. Not as bad as yours though..
Google says it was refurbished 18 months ago. Wether the people of Yardley have also had a lick of paint I don't know... :-S