Unusual Gig Locations

[twowheeledwriter]

Tonight our band is playing at the local naturist camp at Cap d'Agde on the south-east French coast. The venue is a bar at a naturist camp site. Cap d'Agde is well-known for it's naturist facilities and attracts people from all over Europe, especially Germans.

I'm guessing that concentrating on playing the bass might be difficult when confronted with a naked/semi-naked audience. To answer the most obvious question, no, I will not be hiding naked behind my bass as I expect to be dressed, as will the rest of the band.

[deaver]

[quote name='twowheeledwriter' post='929545' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:08 AM']Tonight our band is playing at the local naturist camp at Cap d'Agde on the south-east French coast. The venue is a bar at a naturist camp site. Cap d'Agde is well-known for it's naturist facilities and attracts people from all over Europe, especially Germans.

I'm guessing that concentrating on playing the bass might be difficult when confronted with a naked/semi-naked audience. To answer the most obvious question, no, I will not be hiding naked behind my bass as I expect to be dressed, as will the rest of the band.[/quote]

Without pictures it won't have happened

[crez5150]

I'm doing a wedding gig on an aeroplane next year....... should be interesting

[yorick]

Floating raft in a castle moat for a wedding in Germany.

[Master blaster]

in a Leprosy musium in taddiport, devon.

[matski]

On the lawns at Tonbridge castle - as a background band during one of those mock medieval battles where loads of hairy geezers dress up in chainmail and try to hack each other to death.

The nudist gig will be horrible. You just know the audience will all be saggy 50 year olds who really should keep their clothes on...

[ElCapitan]

[quote name='twowheeledwriter' post='929545' date='Aug 19 2010, 10:08 AM']Tonight our band is playing at the local naturist camp at Cap d'Agde on the south-east French coast. The venue is a bar at a naturist camp site. Cap d'Agde is well-known for it's naturist facilities and attracts people from all over Europe, especially Germans.[/quote]



You do realise that this is also a swingers venue and not just "lifestyle" naturists?

[Rich]

[quote name='deaver' post='929560' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:23 AM']Without pictures it won't have happened[/quote]
Damn right. Although from what I've seen on telly, naturists are very often either emaciated lunatics or sagging wolfhounds.

[twowheeledwriter]

[quote name='ElCapitan' post='929606' date='Aug 19 2010, 12:48 PM']You do realise that this is also a swingers venue and not just "lifestyle" naturists?[/quote]

I have been forewarned - fortunately, we're playing to the early evening, pre-dinner crowd before the night really gets going. Apparently things get quite fruity later on in the evening. However, we're staying on to eat afterwards, so I might see some sights... I'll be avoiding the darkened rooms at the back of the bars/clubs, as well as not venturing out into the dunes after nightfall. I'm not ready to swing.

Photos will be available if at all possible!

[51m0n]

Roof top, midnight +1 minute New Years Eve '91(?), stopped all the taxi's going in or out of Brighton on the London Rd due to the number of revellers dancing in the road - till the police turned up....

oops

Edited August 19, 2010 by 51m0n

[crez5150]

[quote name='deaver' post='929560' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:23 AM']Without pictures it won't have happened[/quote]

This was said about the first Lesbian wedding I played at....... the pictures would have been very disappointing.... as we were with the cliental

Edited August 19, 2010 by crez5150

[Sonic_Groove]

Many years ago Fairbourne railway station (the one at the end, in the estuary!) with the tide coming in (how will we get our gear out?) & then the drunken singer decides to start throwing fireworks at the audience!!!

Give me naked swingers any day !!!

[BassBod]

Did a cave recently...never done that before.

[derrenleepoole]

[quote name='twowheeledwriter' post='929545' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:08 AM']Tonight our band is playing at the local naturist camp at Cap d'Agde on the south-east French coast. The venue is a bar at a naturist camp site. Cap d'Agde is well-known for it's naturist facilities and attracts people from all over Europe, especially Germans.

I'm guessing that concentrating on playing the bass might be difficult when confronted with a naked/semi-naked audience. To answer the most obvious question, no, I will not be hiding naked behind my bass as I expect to be dressed, as will the rest of the band.[/quote]

Just sling your bass low and away you go

[Cat Burrito]

We played a Skinhead pub in Brockworth. Not a strange location on the surface but we were a Glam / Sleaze act and as such the locals took objection to us - they did a "carry to the car" service with our gear and even escorted us out of the village. I must have looked tired because at one point a local "passed" me a bar stool whilst we were playing!

[bassicinstinct]

A Wedding Reception at a hotel in Gretna Green.

I was totally convinced it was a wind up all the time the date was in the dairy (over a year!!), but it turned out to be completely genuine and a damn good gig to boot.

We met the bride and groom after the first set and the Bride Groom explained that it had always been his dream to marry a beautiful girl and have a top soul band play at his wedding reception.

I said "Well, one out of two ain't bad."

I think he[i][b] may[/b][/i] have misunderstood what I meant.

[flyfisher]

[quote name='BassBod' post='929665' date='Aug 19 2010, 12:31 PM']Did a cave recently...never done that before.[/quote]
Sounds like an acoustic nightmare - did it work out OK?

[Rayman]

In my years as a front man in the early 90s, I did a gig on the back of a truck in a quarry near Bremen in Germany.

We were one of about 6 bands playing a mini festival, on a very cold, damp day. We were also the novelty foriegn band amongst a bunch of local bands, so we had a decent drowd watching us, but it was weird being surrounded by this old quarry, and it poured with rain most of the day.

U2 at Red Rock Canyon it was not.

[Truckstop]

I've done a cave too! I used to be in a choir and the sound we got in there was incredible. It was in Devon somewhere. It was called the Witches Cauldron or something?

Truckstop

[270degrees]

Roof of Liverpool *mumbles* Cathedral. (Can never remember which is which-the big one, anyway)

[woodster]

[quote name='ElCapitan' post='929606' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:48 AM']You do realise that this is also a swingers venue and not just "lifestyle" naturists?[/quote]


I went there on a school holiday when i was 14.....

It was a PGL ...errr.... 'watersports' camp...!!!!

[Tinman]

Played a gig in the main office of the Radar Station on the top Of Mount Kent in the Falklands. They had to move all the computer desks to one side.
If that wasn't particularly unusual in itself, the drive up and down the mountain certainly was

[algmusic]

Recorded part of a video in the hairdresser, then performed a gig... I was on drums for this one though does that still count :-)

I think the outfits were the strangest bits though

[url="http://www.sirwalterjwallis.com/"]http://www.sirwalterjwallis.com/[/url] (click the video, if you're board)

[casapete]

In a church (next to the altar) as part of local 'music festival'.
At a Medieval jousting tournament (last week!)
In Paris at the European Balloon Sculpturing Awards.
On airport runway in front of 747 jet.
Floating on a pontoon in a city dock (promoting another music festival!)
In a barn (used for expectant sheep) in Scotland, where the booker had sprinkled Birds Custard powder(?!!) on the 'dancefloor'
in an attempt to get rid of the smell of sheep sh*t! Needless to say did n't work, not many dancing punters etc.

[risingson]

[quote name='twowheeledwriter' post='929545' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:08 AM']Tonight our band is playing at the local naturist camp at Cap d'Agde on the south-east French coast. The venue is a bar at a naturist camp site. Cap d'Agde is well-known for it's naturist facilities and attracts people from all over Europe, especially Germans.

I'm guessing that concentrating on playing the bass might be difficult when confronted with a naked/semi-naked audience. To answer the most obvious question, no, I will not be hiding naked behind my bass as I expect to be dressed, as will the rest of the band.[/quote]

Just got back from this area, one of our friends almost accidently booked us on to that exact camp site! That would have been just awful.

Weirdest gig was on the Mersey Ferry. It was awful, I was hung over and it was a particularly choppy night on the river. It was like getting re-pissed but without the alcohol, people were toppling over our monitors and it was all in all a horrendous night.

[quote]Roof of Liverpool *mumbles* Cathedral. (Can never remember which is which-the big one, anyway)[/quote]

It's the Anglican. That sounds like a great place to play, did you not enjoy it?