Post gig exhaustion

[SpaceChick]

Was wondering if it was just me.

The day after a gig I am always completely exhausted. I tend to spend the day (assuming weekend gig) sprawled out on the sofa watching TV and knitting!!

I am usually a very busy person, so it always amazes me on my post gig days when I don't have the energy to rush around like my usual busy manner!!

I am usually an early to bed, early to rise person, so I wonder if it's as much the late night as it is me putting my all into a performance!

I also have ridiculously strange vivid dreams after gigs (last night I was playing with my band in a holiday camp for aliens?!? WTF?!?)

[KingBollock]

Could be the comedown from the adrenaline high. Or something.

[SpaceChick]

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Could be the comedown from the adrenaline high. Or something.
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That is a very good suggestion!

[Bassmonkey]

Kind of agree. Especially when I get in after the gig. I can never sleep. End up watching TV for hours then am like an old codger when I stand up. Always completely done in on the following day. Don't do much knitting though! ha ha ha

[Dad3353]

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1401630982' post='2465325']...(last night I was playing with my band in a holiday camp for aliens?!? WTF?!?)[/quote]

I'm not surprised that you're having vivid dreams if that's the gigs you're playing..! It might explain the fatigue, too.

[spongebob]

I know the feeling! Always feel quite quite zonked out the next day, even if I get a good night's sleep.

I never touch any alcohol on gig days/nights, or when I get home, so it's not that!

Mostly work Saturday's, but I find if I'm up and about - and at work - I don't feel as sluggish as if I were at home.

Off to play a Wedding reception tonight.....so late night + that Monday feeling....great! [size=4] [/size]

[SpaceChick]

I never touch alcohol when I play either, so it's not that with me either.

I really try not to gig on a school night!

Have a good wedding gig tonight, hope you manage work tomorrow.

[spongebob]

Thanks - should be fun! We're not a Wedding band as such (we're an R'n'B trio) but they wanted what they like, so it should be an experience!

[0175westwood29]

im the same as the op, day after a gig i normally spend it chilling and am norm knackered! if i have work i can deal with it, but was tough the other day when i had 2 1/2 hours sleep after a gig in wales

andy

[Number6]

Definitely an adrenaline thing.....fight or flight. The body uses a massive chunk of energy and adrenaline on gig night then replenishes the next day.

[gary mac]

Apart from a quick trip out for a coffee this morning, I've been semi comatose on the settee all day.

Gigging absolutely exhausts me, still love it but think it might time to retire.

[steve-bbb]

or the staying up late?

im usually fast asleep by 9.30pm so gig nights is always way past my bedtime

[JapanAxe]

Have you tried having a little kip in the afternoon before the gig Deb? I got the idea from Johnny Cash and my drummer, who both do/did this. About 4pm I go and lie on the bed for 30-40mins with a blanket over me, curtains drawn, and just snooze and/or think happy thoughts. I rarely go off fully to sleep, but it really helps to refresh me, and means I am not running on the cr4p in the bottom of the fuel tank by the end of the gig.

[icastle]

Doesn't really affect me.
I enjoy gigging but I don't really find it to be an adrenaline laden experience.

[Graham]

Yup, same here, I've always assumed it's a combination of adrenalin, a few hours of physical work on stage and setting up and breaking down the PA. After that it's late to bed and only a few hours before the children wake me up.

[Lozz196]

I`m the same, gigging really takes it out of me. As does studio work - been in all day yesterday & today, am now pooped. Glad I booked tomorrow off work!

[gafbass02]

I used to get this, an utter utter exhaustion shortly after; but these days hardly a thing, possibly cause I'm playing three or more times a week, so the adrenalin rush just isn't there, it's more routine, dunno

[Roger2611]

Yeah, I tend to be exhausted the day after most gigs, I still put everything into each gig so am knackered and ache the day after....so perfect for a 4 hour recording session this afternoon then.....and next week a 4 hour practice, and the following week a radio session....not really thought that one through have I!

[SpaceChick]

Glad it's not just me!!

Just been listening to the recordings, and when you hear the punters cheer it's all worthwhile.

[gelfin]

I'm knackered after setting up let alone after the gig.

[paul_5]

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Doesn't really affect me.
I enjoy gigging but I don't really find it to be an adrenaline laden experience.
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This. Mostly.

[Adrenochrome]

Yes, but I don't think it's adrenaline in my case. We have a big PA, lights, backdrop, loads of monitors etc. Often get in at 3ish after gigs.
Along with working long hours it's doing me in - so much so that I'm retiring from regular gigging in a few weeks time.

[pnefc42]

Not for me, gigged last night (home about 1am, bed by 1.45 after a cuppa!) Up this morning @ 9ish & out for a long (14mile) Sunday run by 9.30 - rest of the day doing the other 'Sunday' stuff (gardening, shopping etc) b4 work 2moro!

[BILL POSTERS]

Always knackered the day after, a kip does help a bit though.
More worrying is I'm usually feel really lost / depressed by the time I get home, even if its been a really good one. Sort of an anti climax thing I spose, when I was younger it would always be a piss up after, or at least a curry, but these days us old gits all go our seperate ways till the next one, so theres no
craic which just dont seem right.

[SlapbassSteve]

This seems to affect some people more than others, my band regularly play 6 gigs between Thursday night and Monday morning and after the first couple I tend to go into zombie mode; Sunday nights can be a nightmare without large amounts of RedBull. The other guys in the band barely seem affected though, so presumably ukuleles take up less mental energy to play than my U-Bass...