twowheeledwriter Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaver Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I'm doing a wedding gig on an aeroplane next year....... should be interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorick Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Floating raft in a castle moat for a wedding in Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master blaster Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 in a Leprosy musium in taddiport, devon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matski Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCapitan Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheeledwriter Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 (edited) [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic_Groove Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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 !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBod Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Did a cave recently...never done that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrenleepoole Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassicinstinct Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfisher Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckstop Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
270degrees Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Roof of Liverpool *mumbles* Cathedral. (Can never remember which is which-the big one, anyway) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodster Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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...!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinman Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algmusic Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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