Mykesbass Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 Following on from the end of last year's tour - this Saturday sees the biggest gig of my playing career. Not bad for an old duffer! We'll be on the Introducing Stage at the Great British Rock & Blues Festival in Skegness. Anywhere between 600 and 1,000 proper die-hard music fans there for the likes of 9 Below Zero, FM, Saxon and many others. Good fun this original music lark! 9 Quote
Steve Browning Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 Good man. My band is on the Blues In Britain stage (at Jaks Nightclub) at just after midnight on Friday. 1 Quote
chris_b Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 (edited) Unfortunately the possibility to beat my "biggest gig to date" has long gone. I'm only at the Red Lion in Isleworth. Edited January 15, 2019 by chris_b Quote
wateroftyne Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 Lush... relax, and breathe it in! 1 1 Quote
Lozz196 Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 Nice one, we did the same a few years back at the punk weekend they do there. It’s a great stage, event is really well run. 1 Quote
fleabag Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 I'm sure we hit 50 at The Dolphin , Middleton Cheney, Banbury 2 Quote
ricksterphil Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 We're playing the Supersonic Club in Paris on 27th Jan at Convention Bowie France 2019. Capacity is 300 which will make it our biggest gig to date. 1 Quote
Mykesbass Posted January 15, 2019 Author Posted January 15, 2019 5 hours ago, chris_b said: Unfortunately the possibility to beat my "biggest gig to date" has long gone. I'm only at the Red Lion in Isleworth. Chris, you probably had the pleasure of playing some decent gigs earlier in your career - I'm a late developer 1 Quote
Mykesbass Posted January 15, 2019 Author Posted January 15, 2019 5 hours ago, Steve Browning said: Good man. My band is on the Blues In Britain stage (at Jaks Nightclub) at just after midnight on Friday. Nice - I'm driving up on the Saturday morning (seeing @mybass playing in Shoreham on Friday). Have a good one. 1 Quote
Jack_Stroud_Bass Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 That's great news @Mykesbass ! Hope you have a great time. I'll be at the festival too with my band The Achievers at Jak's stage on the Sat. eve. Really looking forward to it! Jack 2 Quote
Mykesbass Posted January 15, 2019 Author Posted January 15, 2019 9 minutes ago, Jack_Stroud_Bass said: That's great news @Mykesbass ! Hope you have a great time. I'll be at the festival too with my band The Achievers at Jak's stage on the Sat. eve. Really looking forward to it! Jack 6 hours ago, Steve Browning said: Good man. My band is on the Blues In Britain stage (at Jaks Nightclub) at just after midnight on Friday. Looks like Jak's is the place to be! Quote
NHM Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 Playing at the Old Neptune in Whitstable on Sunday - if you don't know it, it's a beautiful old Sheps building on the beach. Not the biggest gig I've played but possibly the most picturesque and certainly the one closest to the sea. Hoping there isn't a tidal surge that day. 1 Quote
Steve Browning Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 Ah Whitstable. The Browning family forebears were oyster dredgers there - and a fair few are still around I understand. Quote
NHM Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 yup, oysters still big business in Whitstable. It is thought the Old Neptune was originally a premises for boat-building so your ancestors would no doubt know it well... Quote
Raymondo Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) On 15/01/2019 at 16:06, Jack_Stroud_Bass said: That's great news @Mykesbass ! Hope you have a great time. I'll be at the festival too with my band The Achievers at Jak's stage on the Sat. eve. Really looking forward to it! Jack Hi Jack ….that joke will never wear thin for me.... I have tickets to the Stroud gig and the York gig ...looking at getting to the Newark gig too...hope you are well and happy ...I'll buy you a beer when we next meet up! Won't make it to Skeggy as they don't sell tickets for just the night time ...day tickets require you to be out by 6.00 pm ish… have a blast though! Edited January 16, 2019 by Raymondo The skeggy gig! Quote
Mykesbass Posted January 16, 2019 Author Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Raymondo said: Hi Jack ….that joke will never wear thin for me.... I did it to a Gene once. Spent all day thinking about NOT doing it, as soon as he walked in the door, Hi Gene! Damn!! Edited January 16, 2019 by Mykesbass 1 Quote
Bluewine Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 Cool, I've heard about this fest. They get some acts from the States. Blue 1 Quote
Painy Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 Biggest indoor gig I've played so far is still the LCR at the University of East Anglia back in 1997 when I was just 16 (Skunk Anansie had played there the week before which was pretty cool) - capacity 1550. It was part of a multi-band event as the finale to national youth week although we did headline it. In March though we will be playing OPEN in Norwich (only band playing this time) which will probably be the biggest that we've played since at a capacity of 1450 - although it's a private function for the deputy director of Norwich City Football Club so not sure if that counts. I did also play an outdoor gig once that technically had about 6000 people in attendance although to be fair they weren't really paying much attention to us as they were more interested in the livestock and tractors on display. 🙄😄😄😄 1 Quote
Raymondo Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 @Mykesbass I forgot to congratulate you on the gig ...good stuff! My biggest gig was playing Rock City Nottingham . I was in a Stereophonics tribute band and played there three times in 2004/05 and 09 as part of a "monsters of rock" type bank holiday gig, for a few charities. The first time the venue didn't open the upstairs bars because they had no idea how successful it would be. after that the venue was sold out ...2450 capacity.... I loved every second of it.😍 1 Quote
Mykesbass Posted January 16, 2019 Author Posted January 16, 2019 1 hour ago, Painy said: I did also play an outdoor gig once that technically had about 6000 people in attendance although to be fair they weren't really paying much attention to us as they were more interested in the livestock and tractors on display. 🙄😄😄😄 Ah, well if we count those, yes, Kent County Show last year, but for the stand holders after the public had left (and with world cup on TV)! A slight aside, I saw Skunk Anansie at their distributor's conference - cellar bar in a hotel in Bracknell. Was amazing - less than a meter away from Skin for the whole set! 1 Quote
Steve Browning Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Biggest ever gig for me was playing in a band headlining at the Isle of Wight festival. 2 Quote
bassbiscuits Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 22 minutes ago, Steve Browning said: Biggest ever gig for me was playing in a band headlining at the Isle of Wight festival. Cool - which band was that? Quote
bassbiscuits Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 I think my biggest to date was playing at the Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland in summer 2016. We played to about 1,500-2,000 people in a park in the middle of the town. I was depping on bass for a blues guitarist called Aynsley Lister. A cool weekend away! 2 Quote
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