Covers bands "openers" what do you start with?

[LeftyBiskit]

Our current opener is "Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldnt have" by the Buzzcocks!!
It works for us.

[uncle psychosis]

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Our current opener is "Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldnt have" by the Buzzcocks!!
It works for us.
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Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuune

[LeftyBiskit]

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Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuune
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It certainly makes people take notice

[The Dark Lord]

Disco 2000 by Pulp.

[uncle psychosis]

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Disco 2000 by Pulp.
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...and another tuuuuuuuuuuuuuune

None of the covers bands I've seen recently ever play anything decent

[Hobbayne]

Thin Lizzy's version of Rosalie.

[witterth]

some good ideas keep 'em coming chaps! (nothing in the stand out "well rip that idea off" yet though )

[JTUK]

If we need to start slowly, we will use the first number as a feeler/soundcheck-check with something like 'Come together'
We might up it a bit with an Elbow number, 'Grounds for divorce' or if it is more of a show that we need to jump right into,
'Chain gang' or something of that pace.

[dudewheresmybass]

One band- breaking the law and segue into Cochise, and war pigs for set 2 (possibly to be replaced with stand up and shout by dio) all with intro tapes!
Next- crazy little thing called love, and baggy trousers
Another - everybody needs somebody, and beat it

[gafbass02]

Depends if I'm stalling for more folks to arrive
If its a bit dead I'll chuck away a few spare songs 'The Look' by roxette springs to mind.
I try to never play the same set twice but our most prolific set opener is 'Wherever Whenever' by shakira, into 'Holding out for a hero' into 'hungry like the wolf'.
then again our set is a little different to most

[pnefc42]

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If it's just a full on rock kinda gig, we start with Queen's fast rock version of We Will Rock You
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Used to play this very version as an opener with one of my old bands - quite possibly the best show starter ever devised. The only problem being, where do you go from there?!

[Deep Thought]

Fortunate Son by Creedence/John Fogerty.

[gazhowe]

Enter Sandman - Metallica

[lazzer]

Our show starts like this...... House lights & music down, roadie fires up the smoke machine, turns up the FOH sliders & plays our intro (haunting celtic music/ ww2 air raid siren) during which we take our places. Drummer counts 4 then we hit the first chord of Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak as the lights go on flood!

[Muzz]

We open with Copperhead Road, and the other week at a posh wedding at the Lowry Hotel in Salford, as the first notes of the pipes intro echoed around the room, a bloke in a kilt wandered across the deserted dance floor, oblivious to us falling about laughing as the singer intoned "If you play it, they will come..."

[Raslee]

I'm playing with a soul/funk outfit at the mo and i'm loving opening with Average White Band's 'Pick up the pieces'...then the vocalist comes on, or often we may open with Sam & Daves 'Hold on i'm coming'...depending on the venue really.

[bassintheface]

depends............if it's a wedding or a corporate, it'll be something like 'swee disposition', 'last night or similar.

If it's a 'for fun' pub gig, it'll be something like the band's 'don't do it' or Free's 'I'm a Mover'........

[jaydentaku]

There is an unwritten law. Alan Parsons Project: Sirius.

[ben604]

We open with The Chain (all of it!) for our more "classic rock" audiences, and Under the Bridge for the 2nd set or Cochise/Slither for our "heavier" sets, with Watching You by Kiss (although we play the Monkey3 version) for the 2nd set.

[monkeynuts]

1st set is 'hard to Handle' to ease us in then the 2nd starts with some Foo's 'Bridge Burning'. Love the intro to that song.

[Paul S]

Another U2 'Vertigo' opener for our pop/rock band. Heavy rock band opens with 'We Belong To The Night' UFO.

[GRAHAM SG1]

We used to do `get back` but now its `keep on rocking in the free world` by neil Young

[PURPOLARIS]

Acoustic Band we start with Coldplay - The Scientist and follow that up with Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man.

Electric band we start with Stereophonics - Bartender and The Thief.

[BottomE]

Depends on the gig -

Move on Up - Curtis Mayfield or I Wish - Stevie Wonder if its a gig where we want to make a big start.

Cissy Strut - The Meters or Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin for a more considered introduction.

[LiamPodmore]

Jet - Are You Gonna be My Girl? or The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop.

We've also used AC/DC's Highway to Hell and Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard.

Liam