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Blue makes a good point but if they don't know the songs on their own set list that's me testing them as much as them testing me.

That's what I intend to do, just wondered what other people's thoughts were. I'm also going to wear my Bootsy costume and bring my pedal collection. It'll take a while to connect them all up and I may have to troubleshoot some dodgy patch cables but I know they'll be impressed.

yes, they've told me the keys, all are the same as the original recording and all the same as I play them in.

I have an audition with a band arranged for next week and they've sent me their set list and asked me to pick five songs from it. There are five songs on the list that I know very well because I play them in my present band but I'm thinking of learning five songs that are new to me and keeping the songs I know in reserve. Just wondering what other people would do, would you play it safe and audition with the songs you already knew or learn five new songs just for the challenge?

Our guitarist changed gender last year and I was expecting some negative comments at gigs, but do you know what? no-one's bothered. The only punters who have mentioned anything have been genuinely supportive, and that's with us playing to a mainly older audience. My personal view is that society has become far more tolerant that it was twenty or thirty years ago.

I still end up doing all the adjustments to give them time to send their essential text messages and check their Facebook accounts

We all use our own cars and our two female singers transport and set up the PA between them.

Looks to me that he's become tired of being messed around by timewasters and unfortunately he's letting it show. I would never write an ad like that but I can sympathise a little bit.

The problem I have with Bandmix is when I search for bands looking for bass players, half the results that come back the bands are looking for every single category of musician on the site. I also find it more difficult to use since they updated the site a couple years ago.

Speakers and amp in the airing cupboard, two basses under the bed and one bass on a stand in the living room.

34 this year, down from 50 or so in the previous couple years. This was a band decision because we all felt it was getting a bit much.

My band's setup time is nearly always five minutes longer than needed for a 9pm start. So if we arrive at 7.30 pm we'll be ready at 9.05, if we arrive at 8pm we'll be ready at 9.05, some band members just use whatever time we have to faff around instead of getting the job done.

[color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Looking forward to playing tonight after a month's break and it gets cancelled with three hours notice because the new management have decided not to have live music. Not happy.[/font][/color]

Completely agree with you

For pub gigs we normally finish setting up and soundchecking around 30 seconds before we're due to start, so we look at our watches, say " right, let's start ", drummer counts in the first song, at which point one or both of our singers will decide they need to go to the loo/get a drink/sort out their lyrics/send an urgent text message, so the rest of us just stand there looking stupid until they've sorted themselves out, drummer counts us in again and off we go! Completely amateurish but no-one in the band apart from me and the drummer seems that bothered about it.

can't believe it's only just gone nine and I'm back from my gig already. We were the opening band at a soul music festival in Dunstable, played for an hour from 6.30 to 7.30, got paid more than we usually get for a standard pub gig plus free food too.

If several band members need to come in in the right place, do they need to queue for a cue?

Does your singer understand beats and bars?

[quote name='King Tut' timestamp='1495829807' post='3306980'] The Kings Arms in Houghton Regis. Played a couple of years ago on the saturday b4 christmas. Had a tiny set up area in front of the entrance to the loos. A lot of the people were paralytic, several fights were on the verge of erupting and it was all just very intimidating. Some of my mates have had good gigs there but I vowed not to go back. Felt very uncomfortable. [/quote] My band has a regular gig there, the first time we played there was pretty much as you described but since then it's got better and we usually have a good gig. The idea is that the punters use the loos in the other bar once the band has set up but you always get some moron trying to use them even though all the amps and drums are in the way.

I've had tinnitus in my left ear for around five years now but either it's not constant or I don't notice it all the time. One thing guaranteed to start it up is reading a thread about it on Basschat.

Our band is called 360 because the cost of hiring a rehearsal room came to £3.60 each.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1487789178' post='3242963'] It's the whole misappropriation of genres titles. To me, R'n'B is late 40s/50s stuff, like Ray Charles, Bo Diddley and to an extent the white British derivation in bands like The Who and early Rolling Stones. The stuff my parents listened to. TLC and Rhianna are not R'n'B. And don't get me started on Garage. [/quote] I think the difference is that in America R'n'B kept evolving, with the Rihanna stuff being one of the results, whereas white British R'n'B evolved into Dr.Feelgood and then stopped

Female fronted pop covers veering towards soul & disco. Great fun

My band usually does around 50 gigs a year , so far we have 33 booked for this year plus we've played three already. We should pick up more gigs as we go along so I'm expecting to end up doing around 50 again.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1484742003' post='3217949'] I had that problem, then realised it was at the top of the original ticket page, not on the payment page where I expected it! [/quote] Found it!