Two Gigs In One Day

[Norris]

So we already had a nice Sunday afternoon gig booked, playing from 4-6pm. I do like a Sunday afternoon gig*, especially if you have a day job to go to the next day. You can get home in plenty of time, unload your gear without waking the neighbours, put your feet up and relax before work the next day.

Just before lunch we got a message - the headline act at one of the three venues in a local village music festival had dropped out - could we step in?

Funnily enough we'd been asked to play at the festival 6 months ago... for free! Needless to say we told them where to go at the time. After all, you don't ask a plumber to fix your boiler "for the exposure" and a free pint of shandy, do you?! They were now offering money - albeit for about 2/3 of our normal rate, but close enough seeing as we didn't have to set up any kit.

Anyway, having done the first gig, packed up and dropped off the main kit, we managed to arrive about 20 minutes before we were due to go on at 9pm. We played for 10 minutes... or so it seemed to us. It turns out we did a 2 hour set!

I've now had a little over 4 hours sleep, just eaten lunch and now want to snooze!


* Sunday afternoon gigs seem to be getting quite popular. We've had quite a few enquiries about them. I think pubs are catching on that people don't really want a late night just before work, and it's nice for people to chill out & take the young family members along for a bit of entertainment.

[FinnDave]

We've had a similar experience, Saturday late afternoon gig followed by filling in for a cancellation in a pub a few miles away. Second gig did seem very short, but was standard length. And oddly enough, the place we played the Saturday afternoon at last year wants us on a Sunday afternoon this year.