How was your gig last night?

[scrumpymike]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

We're quite lucky being a Glam covers band means we can get away with our singer mingling with the audience if not a high stage. He especially enjoys it doing Schools Out by Alice Cooper when he wears the silver long tailed jacket, top hat and silver cane and just plays with it a bit. Other things he'll do is chat with the audience and entice them to get involved. This normally happens when we are doing private parties where not everyone is into Glam and it just seems to help a bit.

Dave 

The female vocalist in a functions band I was in a while back had also been a pro dancer. She just used to drag people off their chairs and get them up dancing. Funniest time  was at a rugby club do when she did it to a six-foot-plus prop forward guy much to the hilarity of his mates. There's no way that guy was gonna move so she just wrestled him to the ground - at which point he had to stand up. Lorraine was 5' 5" and no more than 8 stone.

[Rayman]

8 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

 

I share highlights of our gigs, the good with the bad.

 

Sometimes things go wrong and you just can't put your finger on it. " The audience wasn't into it" It hurts it's certainly happened to us, and more than once.

 

Sounds like a good discussion.  "What Can You Do When The Crowd Ain't Into It ? I have a few thoughts on when and why it happens.

 

Daryl

Yeah, we’re pretty lucky most of the time, playing original heavy rock to audiences who often don’t know the songs, we go down pretty well a lot of the time. However sometimes it just doesn’t click, and on a wet Tuesday night the folks that came to see what was on just didn’t seem to be into us. Cest la vie! The band before us went down pretty well, playing kind of indie rock, and they were great, but our 80s style heavy rock just didn’t do it for them. All part of the fun, and I’ll take indifference over hostility every time! lol, because we’ve had both down the years! Thankfully the days of having stuff thrown are long gone! 😆

[dmccombe7]

33 minutes ago, Rayman said:

Yeah, we’re pretty lucky most of the time, playing original heavy rock to audiences who often don’t know the songs, we go down pretty well a lot of the time. However sometimes it just doesn’t click, and on a wet Tuesday night the folks that came to see what was on just didn’t seem to be into us. Cest la vie! The band before us went down pretty well, playing kind of indie rock, and they were great, but our 80s style heavy rock just didn’t do it for them. All part of the fun, and I’ll take indifference over hostility every time! lol, because we’ve had both down the years! Thankfully the days of having stuff thrown are long gone! 😆

Its odd but whenever i used to see a band no matter what style of music it was i always applauded at the end of each song unless the band were absolutely diabolic and making lots of serious mistakes but i don't recall that ever happening.

I'm happy to see any band play especially if it looks like they are enjoying it themselves.

I'd be that one guy in the audience that's clapping. 

Dave

[Lozz196]

47 minutes ago, Rayman said:

Yeah, we’re pretty lucky most of the time, playing original heavy rock to audiences who often don’t know the songs, we go down pretty well a lot of the time. However sometimes it just doesn’t click, and on a wet Tuesday night the folks that came to see what was on just didn’t seem to be into us. Cest la vie! The band before us went down pretty well, playing kind of indie rock, and they were great, but our 80s style heavy rock just didn’t do it for them. All part of the fun, and I’ll take indifference over hostility every time! lol, because we’ve had both down the years! Thankfully the days of having stuff thrown are long gone! 😆

Yep that’s what happens with originals. In our early days in Knock Off we got on some strange bills, and sometimes there was just stunned silence at our set. 

[Bluewine]

On 11/11/2025 at 02:41, dmccombe7 said:

I've noticed it before that you have a nice funky wrist action on the pick hand on some of your songs that i've never really heard used before Daryl.

Think the nearest i've heard to it was Bobby Vega.

Very nice light touch too.

Dave

I'm  definitely  Bobby Vega fan Dave.

 

Daryl

[Rayman]

3 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Yep that’s what happens with originals. In our early days in Knock Off we got on some strange bills, and sometimes there was just stunned silence at our set. 

Yeah we had stunned silence a couple of times in the past. I remember playing the Nottingham Palais to a couple of thousand people, and literally at the end of the songs it was silent 😆, very odd situation. I’ve been spat at, had ashtrays thrown at me…. Etc etc, all many years ago now thankfully.

[Bluewine]

3 hours ago, Rayman said:

Yeah, we’re pretty lucky most of the time, playing original heavy rock to audiences who often don’t know the songs, we go down pretty well a lot of the time. However sometimes it just doesn’t click, and on a wet Tuesday night the folks that came to see what was on just didn’t seem to be into us. Cest la vie! The band before us went down pretty well, playing kind of indie rock, and they were great, but our 80s style heavy rock just didn’t do it for them. All part of the fun, and I’ll take indifference over hostility every time! lol, because we’ve had both down the years! Thankfully the days of having stuff thrown are long gone! 😆

 

When it happens to us it's usually a booking error. Somehow we booked a gig at the wrong venue. For example the crowd is expecting  " Don't Stop Believing " and they get " Red House " lol

 

Daryl