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I think the boot is a great look. I need to get one myself. Perhaps two.

Well, Git is a general purpose insult for somebody ( usually male, I think ) that you don't like. Tight just means mean, miserly, parsimonious, very unwilling to spend money or use resources.

Yeah, I'd do it if I was really keen to get the gig and it was genuinely important to look a certain way to get it ( and keep it ) . I wouldn't do anything permanent, like a tattoo or a facelift, but fllers, make-up , hair cut and dye, yes. Don't want to open can of worms, but I assume the OP is male ? How differently would a female think ? My guess is they wouldn't think twice.

Played at a private party at a friend of our singer/guitarist, who has a house with a garden that runs down to the Thames and it's own private island. Every year, he has a mini festival over a summer weekend, inviting friends and neighbours , of which he has lots ( inviting the neighbours gets around the noise problems, but the pub next door complains if they play after 11pm, ironically ) "Stage" is on a patio, that normally has a sail cover over it, but as it was a beautiful evening, and we were on first, it hadn't been rigged. Amp was basically in the flowerbed to give me room to stand. Played a hour plus set, split in half by some great homemade curry being served. Lots of dancing and good feedback from the small but lively crowd. Mrs B enjoyed being pampered. I think there are about 6 more bands over 3 nights in total. Lovely, generous people.

We're similar. About 2m x 1m, with metal rings in each corner. We bring a lot of bits of string ( reasonably thick and decent quality, I think it's old tent guy ropes ). Never failed to find something to hang it from, usually try and loop the string over something and tie it lower down for a quicker removal.

I was in Corsica last week, and as we walked back from the beach, there were 2 accordianists playing typical French music in the town square, with loads of people sitting ouside the bars under the shade of the trees listening to them, some of whom were drinking pastis, and the rest of the square was taken up with people playing boules. So staggeringly French, it almost felt like a theme park. Adored the place, and sad to be home.

This looks useful, but I've yet to use it in anger... https://www.looptube.xyz/

I used an image generator to help create our last album cover. I asked for 4 men facing a setting sun in the style of Claude Monet. Chose this one from 16 options, some of which had 5 people. Our singer sometimes wears a hat like this. Had to remove a hat from one of the other 3, changed the colours completely by converting to b&w then recolouring the sun, and did some other tweaks. Added the text myself ( used Gimp for all the manipulation )

That's exactly what I started with about 15 years ago. ( OK, mine was red ,and the Rumble only a 10 ) Not got far from that really. Learned enough in the first few weeks to bluff my way through a gig or two, probably done about 50 more since, sometimes where the band has outnumbered the audience and sometimes to several hundred. Replaced the Squier with a Fender MIJ P-bass and bought an Ashdown combo for gigs. Still use the Rumble for practice ( which I don't do much now ) Good luck with everything...

....and , they've gone again...

They are back. Very tempted... https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_mv_4msb_seafoam_green.htm

We use BandHelper . Been using it for years , and it does everything we need. Does lyrics, set lists and autoscroll. Available on Apple & Android.

No, Solaris ran ( runs ) on x86 as well. Common code base for vast majority of it, and a pretty similar release cycle. Still some supported versions, I believe, although it's all owned by Oracle now, who have other fish to fry. ( I was a Sun / Oracle for nearly 20 years. Sun was the best company I ever worked for. Oracle definitely weren't )

Happy to be corrected here. My requirement for this has gone away, so I haven't kept up to date with what's available now.