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| Worst Gigs |
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| Drugs Don't Work by Gavin from
Weekender |
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It was our first full pub
set as a full band (we had previously been a duo for 3 yrs) and we were asked to
be on for about 2 hrs and were going to play the first half as an acoustic duo
and the final set as a full rockin’ band. We did our customary sound check then
sat back admiring the venue waiting to go on. We had been notified a few days
earlier that one of the family members of one of the landlords had passed away
so we were hoping to be able to cheer up the locals with our fine happy music!
Whilst waiting to go on a bloke came up to us and said ,"are you the band?" to
which we said yes, and he went on to say, "you better be bl**dy good, cause I’ve
got loads of punters here who want to be entertained!". No pressure there then!
We began the gig with our unique brand of cheeky, acoustical numbers to a very
luke warm response and halfway through the same guy came up and said, "do you
know the drug don’t work?". I have to confess I did know the song but wasn’t
about to play it as we would have made a total hash of it, so I said ,"no
sorry", to which he replied, "well you just play a love riff and I'll sing
something"!!!!.................... While I was still reeling from the thought of
coming up with a 'love riff' Carl (our singer) stepped in quickly and said, "do
you know any David Gray?" Thankfully he said he knew Babylon' so we decided to
try and remember how it went and then began our rendition which consisted of
Carl forgetting all the words and being put off by this blokes constant talking
over the song and horrendous vocals! Needless to say the bloke came into the
chorus in the wrong place murdering what life was left in the song and we
finished it to huge applause............. from the bloke who had just sang with
us.
Later in the same gig when we had got over the death of our first set, we
managed to get the small crowd going with some more rocky number with the full
band. halfway through a song the same guy came up and offered me some
drugs, which I quickly turned down I thought about suggesting that he ponder his
earlier song suggestion, 'the drugs don’t work' but decided against it! to
finish things off we played a Feeder song towards the end of our set and one
girl was in the room upstairs having her 21st birthday, and came down and
started moshing on her own to the song, which cheered us all up! All in all an
eventful gig!
Two words spring to mind.....................never again! |
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