Heading out to go load gear soon, so I'll make this quick.
We're a 2 piece instrumental metal band, I like to call our genre "Cthulhu doomnoise." The guy who does my tattoos put us in touch with a bar owner who was trying to put together a metal show to benefit a friend of his who was in a motorcycle crash. Cool, we're in! Show is in 2 weeks, short notice, but whatever.
No fucking word from the venue owner until 2 nights ago, and now we're the ONLY metal band on the bill. Before us is a folk/jazz group, and then a party rock rent-a-band style group is doing 90 minutes before us. Nobody wants to bring their own gear, so everyone asked us for drums and amps. We got so fed up with waiting on show details from the owner that was said "fuck this." Owner has done 0 promo or anything, I can't even find websites for the other bands playing.
Now we're just gonna show up with 2 guitars, no drums, and play some Sunn style shit. OR, if the vibe is really bad around 1AM (when we're supposed to go on), we'll just plug our pedal boards into the drummer's switch and play Mario Kart on stage and fuck with the noises from that and call it art.
Fun times.
Update: first band is on and they're a Chicago style blues band and I have no idea what we're doing here.
OR, if the vibe is really bad around 1AM (when we’re supposed to go on), we’ll just plug our pedal boards into the drummer’s switch and play Mario Kart on stage and fuck with the noises from that and call it art.
You seriously need to do this.
We did bring the cables he needs to make that happen (he's a huge sound equipment/experimental guy) so we're gonna feel it out and see. We did load our gear in, what little of it we brought. The venue also has some 1960s style chairs in front of a 1950s style TV we are talking about playing the set at. Just put our pedal boards in front of the chairs and play our set sitting in front of the TV.
Nice, sounds to me like you can make a good night of it.
On another note, I just got home from playing a show with my hardcore band tonight, and there was a guy in the crowd wearing a Kim Jong Un t-shirt lmao
Whats your hardcore band sound like? I grew up on punk, so dm me a link if you want!
I've already posted links to it on here out in the open before, so I don't mind doing it again
https://ddsdmt.bandcamp.com/
Right on, cheers! Here's my doom band:
https://plagueofcarcosa.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-is-more-ancient-than-the-mountains
Yeah the first band playing at this show tonight is a chicago style blues band and I dont know why we're fucking here. Ill check your stuff out when I get home tonight.
First local indoor punk show since covid is on the 20th! First great one is new years in my living room!
We have a bunch of bands that wanna come out here that fucking rule. Dunno how much you know about Canada crust but Janicki who used to sing in After the Bombs and Parasytes, ran Katakombs and did Varning fest in MTL loves our town and has gotten into the habit of sending bands east. We're on the coast so it's at least a 10 hour drive back before there's anything to play again but I guess we're worth it.
I know little to nothing about the canadian crust scene tbh. I have a Saccage album, if that counts lol
After the Bombs are fairly well known/well distributed and Parasytes were at least north america trendy for a bit so I thought you may have known the..
We had a band where one of our guitarists didn't know how to play in the real sense and just made noise, he couldn't make it so we just leaned a guitar against an amp and let it feed back. People love shit like that.
Sorry some local band is playing a song that sounds like Santeria on stage rn and actually I think that might be the perfect way of getting out of this set.
Everyone in this thread seems awesome and I just play strokes covers how did you find each other
It me
I don't really have too many horror stories, mostly people don't know what they actually want and you have to explain why playing bagpipes in a bar or restaurant for an hour straight without breaks is a terrible idea, even on St. Patrick's Day.
For weddings and parties there is a very fine line between playing for too little time and too much time, it usually goes from "that was fun" to "holy fuck make it stop" in one tune. You have to read the crowd and get out of there while they are still enjoying it.
The worst gig I've ever done was a traditional Indian wedding where the family wanted a pipe band for some reason. The entire crowd of like 200 people was emotionless the entire time. Not bored or anything, they just stared for fifteen minutes while we played. I tried walking around and dancing a bit while playing to get them into it, which made it even more awkward.
I play highland pipes for most gigs, also play smallpipes
Nice. Highland pipes were my first real instrument, and i still play my chanter every once in a while.
It's a fun instrument, I've been playing for like 12ish years and I'm still surprised how many people appreciate it.
Final update if anyone is chronicaling my night - we did our set on stage sitting in some old lady chairs and literally everyone left the bar. I didn't play my guitar 80% of the time I was up there and let my pedals do the lifting. I'd call it a success. The owner asked me to help him book metal shows once a month from spring until summer and I said "lol fuck no" and we killed his business for the remainder of the evening.
Hell yeah hit them with Sunn shit. Just make sure you wear long black robes.
No stories from the performance side of things, but I did see a wild show from a 2 piece band that referred to themselves as "yet another shithouse two piece band" and they killed it. Good luck to you!
Played in a country punk band. Played at a friends bonfire for free because we had nothing else to do, and we got free food and beer. Wanted to play our regular set, but kept getting yelled at by guys drinking coors to play jason aldean and shit because "we're a country band".
Sounds par for the course. My punk band used to do Wagon Wheel (this was like 12 years ago when I only knew that song cause Laura Jane Grace did a cover) and we got thrown out of a few house parties cause we didn't have any other shit like that.
Yeah, my big inspiration back then was Social Distortion (still is, tbh. Wear a lot of western shirts). So we'd have a backlog of classic country, but everyone in the crowd got annoyed because they didnt know the songs. We ended up getting bored, and just finished with Freebird, because we knew the joke and prepared it for every show we did.
As it turned out, we didn't played "Country" nor "Western".
Fuck I know thats a common thing and I can't think of the fix now either. Been there. Played in a drunk punk band all through college.
Not bad, but I busked with piano, and a cool girl watched me for a bit and then gave me $50 and left which above and away the most I'd received in one go. I know i'm not handsome as, but chased after her asking if she meant to give it, and she said yeah. She left. I still wonder if I could've gotten anywhere with that, or if she is just rich and enjoyed my music. Baffling
The guy who does my tattoos put us in touch with a bar owner who was trying to put together a metal show to benefit a friend of his who was in a motorcycle crash.
I'd like to hear that as a song.
No you don't it sounds like a bar owner who doesn't know how to run shit
I despise every single trash DJ and band for rolling up onto my stages and sets, dumping a load of backline and gear on me last minute, not helping with the install, and then rolling out of the there paid and manifesting.
So much so I'm buying shitty traktors, ripping 480p tracks off YouTube, and calling myself DJ Nounverb. Hooked on Phonics birches
You're playing doom. Being prepared really doesn't matter. Drums would be nice though.
This sounds hilarious, like a totally chaotic gig. I hope you crushed it OP.
