Gig Rules (1 Viewer)

[Bunny]

Big Dancey lads always bump into me when I'm trying to video the entire gig on my iPad 2. So darn frustrating!

I mean, it's a once in a lifetime chance to video a gig. Come on!

 

[Jerry Twig]

I'll have you know I own a fucking apron.

Your Minor Threat one from Urban Outfitters

 

[washingcattle]

Your Minor Threat one from Urban Outfitters

With added pasta sauce.

 

[ernesto]

Yeah lets get this thread onto what's important.

How shite is Budweiser ?

It's undrinakable piss.

It tastes mildly of banana flavoured sweets.

It's got so many chemicals in it your hangover starts while you're drinking it.

It's far too fizzy.

It goes flat too fast.

Then it tastes like an ash tray

It's a completely wrong colour.

And the hangover the next day ? don't get me fucking started on the hangover the next day.

It's just awful stuff.

its' made from rice, what do you expect?


piss is right

 

[rettucs]

if I get to a gig early and get a pit pass and then my mates get there late and don't get a pit pass, IT IS PERFECTLY OK FOR ME TO DITCH MY MATES AND GO TO THE PIT ON MY OWN. Fucked if I'm giving up my great vantage point to go back and stand beside those tardy fuckers.

 

[Unicron]

if I get to a gig early and get a pit pass and then my mates get there late and don't get a pit pass, IT IS PERFECTLY OK FOR ME TO DITCH MY MATES AND GO TO THE PIT ON MY OWN. Fucked if I'm giving up my great vantage point to go back and stand beside those tardy fuckers.

Damn straight

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Some short arse was spitting and cursing about this at a gig last night. Jaysis he was annoyed. "Fucks" and "cunts" all over the shop. Most amusing.

 

[Lili Marlene]

haha go on Fiona

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/fiona-apple-fires-back_n_3861716.html

there is a difference between the back-of-the-room-chatter that is simply annoying,–and the operatic drunken blather, or the heckling that is really just INTERRUPTING that makes it impossible for us to do our jobs.

She'd be headed for ANOTHER breakdown if she ever played Ireland.

 

[Jill Hives]

haha go on Fiona

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/fiona-apple-fires-back_n_3861716.html



She'd be headed for ANOTHER breakdown if she ever played Ireland.

I was wondering what your opinion would be on that.
There was no Fiona Apple thread so I didn't bother to start one.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | 10 Things That Need To Change To Save Independent Venues

this is great

 

[Jill Hives]

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | 10 Things That Need To Change To Save Independent Venues

this is great

Everyone needs to shut up, FTW.

 

[therealjohnny]

Great read

The bit about bar staff shutting the fuck up is a good point that I haven't heard anyone mention before

Also guest lists-- I have a friend who is proud that he hasn't paid in to a gig in over 20 years
While I enjoy the occasional rare freebie to big expensive gigs I don't think blagging your way into independent gigs is anything to be proud of

 

[Jill Hives]

Great read

The bit about bar staff shutting the fuck up is a good point that I haven't heard anyone mention before

Also guest lists-- I have a friend who is proud that he hasn't paid in to a gig in over 20 years
While I enjoy the occasional rare freebie to big expensive gigs I don't think blagging your way into independent gigs is anything to be proud of

I would be a bit torn on that one. When you have a lot of musician friends, it’s very expensive to support them all. I have no problem parting with money to see a band I like and support those friends. That said, I also have friends whom I like but not so much their band. Just not my thing so I would gladly take a free ticket to their gig to support them and be meat in the room, so to speak. I still consider it a type of support, just not a monetary one. Also, when dating a musician it’s extremely hard to listen to the songs hundreds of times in the house and then pay to hear it live again and again.

 

[Lili Marlene]

At the end of the day, your band your rules. If you want to make your parents pay into your gig so be it. You're an asshole but at least you made that extra ten quid.


What we don't need is the entitled journalists of Ireland tweeting their dissatisfaction that the VIP area just isn't big enough for them at this festival.

 

[therealjohnny]

I suppose it depends on how often you go to gigs. If you are going out every night supporting your friend's gigs then yeah, that would be very expensive, but it's your choice and your mates are under no obligation to give you freebies all the time.

I have many friends who put on gigs and play in bands and I always pay my way. I appreciate the odd freebie but would never take it for granted.

When I play a gig I'm grateful if there is a guest list that allows me to get my girlfriend in for free but it's not something I take for granted, as most times the promoter hasn't a bean (unless they're lying to me..the pricks)

My parents are banned from my gigs. Ever since the ...unpleasantness

 

[therealjohnny]

When I say 'you' I don't mean you @Jill Hives

 

[Jill Hives]

When I say 'you' I don't mean you @Jill Hives

I know, but for the record, I don't ever ask for freebies. I will gladly take them if offered if I've paid my fair share for them before and/or don't particularly care for the music but know they need bodies. It's all moot now since I never bother to even go out anymore.

 

[therealjohnny]

Hey I've played guitar in bands because they need the bodies

 

[pete]

guest lists and encores. get rid of both.

 

[Space]

I'll take guest spot in exchange for services and returning favours/help with gigs and I'll give them for the same reasons. I'd also take them for a friend if I'm in the support band at an expensive gig.