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I am playing in pubs. Will everyone please stop projecting their own experiences onto everyone like there's an effing rule book about this or something?

I take exception to that. Don't tar everyone with the same brush because you had a bad experience. We play for 3 hours with a break because that's what we've been booked to do. I find it pretty annoying for you to sit there and call it indulgence when it's bloody hard work, not only in the execution but also the preparation and thought put into set lists which flow and create momentum. And if the audience is getting weary, then we're not doing our jobs correctly. I'll have you know that we have people up on their feet at the very end of most of our shows. Your experience is your own, and you're entitled to your opinion, but don't go calling out other bands, especially since your criticism does not apply universally. That's not cool. Don't do that.

Yup, I just finished with it - had it most of last week. Get well soon, y'all.

Last night Nine Lives played for the first time at The Tolbooth in Ellon. It was an interesting setup in the conservatory needing some creative ways of getting electricity to the left hand side of the "stage" (ie. area of floor we occupy). Nevertheless, we got set up and got going and after a bit of level tweaking had a great night. Decent crowd, had some dancers up for a fair few songs - held them there for three with Shut Up And Dance -> Bad Moon Rising -> then an impromptu set list change to Waterloo. Was pleased with the band doing that on the fly, especially as it wasn't me making the suggestion. We heard afterwards from the staff that even the shy folk up at the bar were singing along and enjoying it too - couldn't really see them as we were downstairs a bit. Got some great feedback, most importantly from the lady who paid us, so hopefully this will lead to repeat bookings at this venue. Very happy with how it went. Gear used - my G4M rat bass followed by the Sire D5 into the usual Markbass modular shenanigans.

So basically, you minus the bass then?

Just effin lock this thread already. What a burlap sack full of bile it is. I think I said something about picking scabs.

I'd be on board with this, in the interests of fairness if nothing else.

TBF we do take a break of 10-15 mins. We usually make the first half slightly shorter than the second as a result, so it's more like 75-80mins then 90. Of course, this is cover band land. With the originals band we're typically on a three band bill and play a single 45. On the rare occasions we get to spread it out (like last Saturday when the support act bailed) we do something like 2x45.

That's nice, but in general we do what the venue asks us (and indeed pays us) to do. Up our way, that's 3 hours. The night often ends up being a game of two halves and we (well, I) talior the set accordingly - somewhat lighter stuff in the first half, getting heavier in the second.

Hard veto here also.

3 hours with maybe a 15 min break. Second set longer than the first, generally.

Eh? Is this real? And if it is, why?

And being named after one's rear end instead helps in this regard, how?

There's your mistake - expecting rational, reasoned discussion on FB.

I came into this thread expecting to read about some dumbass thing the OP had done to one of their basses.

My entries on the cheese pile are generally because "every other covers band plays that one, and it isn't even that good". I think that's a perfectly reasonable reason to veto a song. To try to swim a little against the tide. Fk Dakota, Fk Sex on Fire on that basis. There will be others and I'll veto them too when they come up.

80% of The Inevitable Teaspoons played at Drummonds in Aberdeen last night. Our sax player guffed up his dates and realised he had a wedding to attend (not his own, I must stress!). So to be honest I wasn't feeling it going into the gig. Isn't it funny how sometimes the gigs you're not looking forward to end up being great fun - maybe because there's nothing to lose and it takes pressure off oneself. So when we arrived for soundcheck, we learned that the support act had cancelled, so the whole night was ours to play with. We ended up playing for 2 hours (with a 15 min break) which is rather unusual for a no-name originals band such as ourselves, but we had enough material to cover it, and threw in some covers to break up the relentless cycle of "tunes nobody knows". It wasn't super busy, but we had folk up dancing nonetheless, so I guess we were doing something right! I expected it to be a bust, but it ended up being a really fun night! I played the G&L Tribute LB-100 into the house amp which was some sort of Ashdown ABM head into some sort of Trace cab. Sounded good, but it was just for monitoring, FOH was handled by the venue's sound engineer (who did an amazing job - I had a wander out front cos wireless and it was sounding great).

Nice, was my go-to OD for many years until I got my Monomyth. Also well done for powering through - the show must go on!

The washers work fine here. I move around - especially now that I'm wireless. The only time I've had a bass attempt to make friends with the floor was when I wasn't using the washers.

Sounds like I'm in the minority in finding agreeable people to play music with

Not so! You can finalise a transaction begun the previous year. It's when the deposit goes down that counts. "If you have put down a deposit on something before committing to this, which then requires a final payment within <year of abstinence thread>, that single payment permitted."

Hence why I said "anything within our collective technical capabilities"...

Hard disagree on this point! That's maybe how your band works, but it's not universal. Everyone gets an equal say in our band, and everyone has a veto, they're just not d!cks about using it. We're an open minded four piece and are happy to give anything within our collective technical capabilities a go, and let the audience reaction be our ultimate arbiter.

We do a rocked up version of The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" and it always goes down great. I prefer it to the original, honestly! Whenever you're trying to genre shift something, you know it has worked when you get that look on punters' faces that roughly translates into "oh damn, I wasn't expecting you to do that song!" followed by them singing/dancing along.

I would add a side to this - we usually play a (slightly) slower number second to last - it's usually Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved", but we do rock it up a bit. Lighters out moment, then play a rocker to finish. One time we got asked to play Someone You Loved again and ended up playing it three times (!)