How was your gig last night?

[neepheid]

1 hour ago, Bluewine said:

I'm getting old. I didn't remember I have a gig tomorrow night.

 

I'm transparent to a fault so I'll share the text I received this text this morning. 

 

"Hey all! The scoop for Maple Road Saturday @Traditions;

Surprise 40th Bday Party. I'll be there early to setup, you can all arrive anytime after 4 to load in. We need to be soundchecked by 5:40, the Bday girl arrives shortly before 6, set time is 6-9pm. Let me know if there are any questions!"

 

I know some of you have played a lot of these Birthday parties. I guess they can be good or bad.

 

Daryl

 

 

Have you ever tried replying to one of those texts with "new phone, who dis?" just to wind them up?

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I'm getting old. I didn't remember I have a gig tomorrow night.

 

I'm transparent to a fault so I'll share the text I received this text this morning. 

 

"Hey all! The scoop for Maple Road Saturday @Traditions;

Surprise 40th Bday Party. I'll be there early to setup, you can all arrive anytime after 4 to load in. We need to be soundchecked by 5:40, the Bday girl arrives shortly before 6, set time is 6-9pm. Let me know if there are any questions!"

 

I know some of you have played a lot of these Birthday parties. I guess they can be good or bad.

 

Daryl

Did a surprise birthday party on Sun last week same venue as our Sat night so all the gear was left in situ apart from taking my basses home but to be honest it turned out a great gig. 

Just have to make the best of it and just think about having fun with it. Enjoy what you do and the audience will follow suit.

Have a good one Daryl.

 

Look on the bright side, i have a gig 2hr drive to Dundee, up 3 flights of stairs and its a ticket deal so depending on numbers that turn up will determine my fee. All that with a badly twisted ankle from Xmas day. So bad i'm gonna use the venues bass cabinet to save trying to lift heavy gear up and down stairs. Got it strapped up for extra support. 

Good news is its an 11pm finish (2 x 1hr sets) so should be home by 2am.

Thankfully my wife will be there as usual and will give me a hand with the little gear i'm taking.

 

Dave

[Bluewine]

45 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Did a surprise birthday party on Sun last week same venue as our Sat night so all the gear was left in situ apart from taking my basses home but to be honest it turned out a great gig. 

Just have to make the best of it and just think about having fun with it. Enjoy what you do and the audience will follow suit.

Have a good one Daryl.

 

Look on the bright side, i have a gig 2hr drive to Dundee, up 3 flights of stairs and its a ticket deal so depending on numbers that turn up will determine my fee. All that with a badly twisted ankle from Xmas day. So bad i'm gonna use the venues bass cabinet to save trying to lift heavy gear up and down stairs. Got it strapped up for extra support. 

Good news is its an 11pm finish (2 x 1hr sets) so should be home by 2am.

Thankfully my wife will be there as usual and will give me a hand with the little gear i'm taking.

 

Dave

 

We occasionally play the Road House in Dundee WI, a 20 minutes commute.lol

 

I'm going to make the best of the surprise birthday party gig. It's a 20 minute commute for me ,however it's well over an hour for our guitarist.  I want to keep him in good spirits.  I'm the cheerleader in the band for let's have a good time and not take ourselves to seriously.

 

Daryl 

Edited 14 hours ago by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

Have you ever tried replying to one of those texts with "new phone, who dis?" just to wind them up?

 

Actually my my biggest fear has  been getting a call from the BL at 7:00pm on a Friday or Saturday night saying; " Where Are You? " lol

 

Daryl

[taunton-hobbit]

Picture the scene - it's my mothers' funeral (crem job). The few mourners, including my father, are sitting patiently. We sat patiently for almost a quarter of an hour until someone (me) thought to get up & enquire of the undertakers (still outside) what the (politely) was going on.

 

Quiet panic followed & someone managed to get the female vicar type person on the phone.- she had forgotten & was in the shower................

 

Once she arrived, it was the 'backroom boys' lunch hour, complete with radio & non-too quiet conversation.

 

😎

[dmccombe7]

50 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said:

Picture the scene - it's my mothers' funeral (crem job). The few mourners, including my father, are sitting patiently. We sat patiently for almost a quarter of an hour until someone (me) thought to get up & enquire of the undertakers (still outside) what the (politely) was going on.

 

Quiet panic followed & someone managed to get the female vicar type person on the phone.- she had forgotten & was in the shower................

 

Once she arrived, it was the 'backroom boys' lunch hour, complete with radio & non-too quiet conversation.

 

😎

So sorry to hear of your loss. Our thoughts are with you at such a sad time. Take care.

Dave

[taunton-hobbit]

Thanks Dave, but it was a very long time ago. I made a point of talking to the undertakers when it was Dad's turn that she wouldn't be any where near.

 

😎

[Bluewine]

On 25/12/2024 at 05:57, 12stringbassist said:

A venue in St Helens.

I began to get misgivings about this evening's gig when I first saw the venue's advertising for it. Just as they did last year, the venue advertised us as a specific glam rock band, which we are NOT. We play some glam rock, but we would never say that glam is what we do.
 

Our own poster was far more honest.
 

A message during the day that someone had complained last year (they put images of Roy Wood and The Rubettes on the poster, two bands that we don't touch) set my nerves jingling. We talked amongst ourselves about how to rearrange the show to survive such critics. We were assured that it was just one person and that we should do our regular show. I dressed up. Some people at tables were dressed up glam-style and I felt nervous, but we went on and played two great sets.
 

After the show, a Chinese lady took me off to a room to pay me. Our fee was £100 short. I showed her the message with the agreed fee and she directed me to talk to the chap who had booked us. We had a circular conversation about how the Chinese lady at the venue lies to him about attendance and rips him off, the attendance being a bit short so they couldn't pay our full fee (that he had agreed in July), and how, if I took money out of HIS pocket then we would never play there again.... He invited me to think about that.
 

After thinking about it for a fraction of a second, I said that we did not want to deal with a rogue venue who cheats bands. He's got an ego about being The Man Who Puts Bands On. I walked away from him and he followed me, shouting pathetic insults about me politely asking him not to use his smoke machine, as they mess my throat up and I live in fear of them.
 

Our drummer Graham went for a lengthy chat with him and came back with some more money, but not our full fee. I presume this means we will not be playing there again. I don't want to play there again.
 

He was very affronted when I said I would not be blackmailed and ripped off. I said that if he paid a plumber part of an agreed fee for doing a job, the plumber would hit him.
 

I came home very annoyed.
Happy Christmas.

 

 

 

Nice pic Mike.

 

Wow! Getting shorted, it's happened to us, but not in a long time. None of us should deal with rogue venues. 

 

Daryl

[12stringbassist]

Who's Mike?
I'm Ian.

[Norris]

5 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Actually my my biggest fear has  been getting a call from the BL at 7:00pm on a Friday or Saturday night saying; " Where Are You? " lol

 

Daryl

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt 😂. It was a meal in a posh restaurant with my then-girlfriend's family.

 

Then there was that other time when the drummer had been on a bender all day and we had to send a couple of audience members to his house to wake him up 😂