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.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        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

              • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                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/

                • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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                  3 years ago

                  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.

                  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    Oh right, I've think I've checked you guys out before actually, good stuff

                    I'm also in a stoner/doom/psych thing:

                    https://jointhugger.bandcamp.com/

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          First local indoor punk show since covid is on the 20th! First great one is new years in my living room!

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              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.

              • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I know little to nothing about the canadian crust scene tbh. I have a Saccage album, if that counts lol

                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  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..

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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.