Drummer needed tonight - Jolly Farmers, Purley

[Graham]

Hello everyone, I know this is the wrong forum but as time is of the essence I thought I'd put it in here where more people will see it.

I'm supposed to be playing a paid dep gig tonight at The Jolly Farmers in Purley with a rock covers outfit called Carbon Skyline, but the drummer's just dropped out, if anyone knows of someone suitable and available let me know ASAP.

This was supposed to be my first time depping with these guys so pretty disapointed it's turned out like this, set list is below:

Set 1
American Idiot - Green Day
Beautiful Day - U2
Vertigo - U2
Pick A Part That's New - Stereophonics
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Going Underground - The Jam
All The Small Things - Blink 182
Place Your Hands - Reef
Under The Bridge - RHCP
Message In A Bottle - The Police
Hard To Handle - Black Crows
Wishing Well - Free
Saturday Night - Elton John
Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen + Paul Rogers

Set 2
Basket case - Green Day
Your Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Mustang Sally - Commitments
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Play Thay Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Back In Black - AC/DC
All Right Now - Free
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mr Brightside - The Killers
I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
Sweet Child O' Mine - GnR
Tush - ZZ Top
Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi

All standard stuff, a lot of us could play all that, so I'm hoping someone knows a drummer who could too.

[Graham]

Not to worry, sorted now, cheers.

[ezbass]

Glad you got that sorted so quick. The JF is one of the venues I play, they get a good crowd, not too rowdy, decent load in and a half decent (if smallish) stage. Enjoy.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1365775340' post='2044352']
Not to worry, sorted now, cheers.
[/quote]

Good news; well done. Phew..! I didn't really fancy a quick dash across the Channel this evening, anyhow..! Have a great time.

[danthevan]

Ive played at the JF too a few years back, and playing at the other JF next friday

[danthevan]

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1365776841' post='2044379']
Glad you got that sorted so quick. The JF is one of the venues I play, they get a good crowd, not too rowdy, decent load in and a half decent (if smallish) stage. Enjoy.
[/quote]

Ooo, they have a stage now?
When i played there it was in front of the fireplace!

[ezbass]

[quote name='danthevan' timestamp='1365784670' post='2044578']
Ooo, they have a stage now?
When i played there it was in front of the fireplace!
[/quote]Still in front of the old fireplace. This is 'The Stage' Mk2 no less. The previous one had some interesting dips and 'suspension'.

[Graham]

Cheers guys, I've not played here before, but heard good things about it. The person stepping in is a singer rather than a drummer, so we'll have to work around what he knows but I think it'll work out ok.

[seashell]

Hope its going well! :-) One of thr best pub gigs I've seen was a 3 piece where drummer and bass playet were both deps!
Let us know how it went. :-)

[Graham]

It was.....ok, not terrible, but not good either, the drummer could pretty much hold a beat, but not a lot more than that, so we busked our way through a few of the numbers. He found playing drums for two hours a real endurance test too, I don't think he realised just how much hard work it was going to be.

Not a bad crowd though, quite justifiably they got into it when we played well and were a bit more indifferent when were making mistakes or lacked groove. Had a slightly surreal end to the night where one punter begged us to play Mr Brightside again as he'd missed it the first time round and the insisted on getting up and (poorly) singing the final chorus before doing some X-Factor / Christina Aguilera style vocal runs at the end. Made the boy happy though, so worth it for that.