How was your gig last night?

[BigRedX]

Most of the venues I am playing now have "green room" which is for all the bands to use for relaxing, getting changed and storing cases and gear when not playing. One venue even has separate changing rooms for the headlining and support bands. I've not seen the headliner's room, but the support band's room is tiny. Whilst you could get a 4-piece band in there it would be so cramped that no-one would actually be able to get changed and one person would be in the toilet!

[casapete]

We played at an open mic type evening yesterday. It’s a weekly session at St John’s pub in Hull,

and run by an old friend of ours who is a sound engineer, and a lovely bloke.

Anyway, each week they have an act on first ( who get paid) followed by various folk doing

their thing, be it covers / originals / spoken word etc. Our friend has been asking us ( acoustic duo)

to do the opening set for a while, so we relented and gave it a go. 
There was a great PA to use ( QSC etc) so a fairly easy job to set up in the tiny room. We did an hour

of various stuff, working from a set list rather than our more usual requests format. I actually found 

it a bit daunting being in such a small room, crammed with people including a lot of musos. 
We settled into it after the first couple of tunes, opening with an instrumental version of ‘ I heard

it through the grapevine’ and then working through some blues, country and rock stuff. It went 

very quickly, and we got an encore too so people seemed to like what we did. It made an interesting

change from our usual gigs so glad we did it - we’ve been asked back so happy days. 
 

Fender Kingman bass / Rumble 100 / Clark’s boots

 

 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by casapete

[Bluewine]

8 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

A proper dressing room. Far better than a cupboard at the side of the stage for 5 to share. 😂

Dave

 

How about backstage at Lucy's at Wisconsin State Fair. We were sitting on folding chairs in the dirt next to several garbage dumpsters.lol

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, casapete said:

We played at an open mic type evening yesterday. It’s a weekly session at St John’s pub in Hull,

and run by an old friend of ours who is a sound engineer, and a lovely bloke.

Anyway, each week they have an act on first ( who get paid) followed by various folk doing

their thing, be it covers / originals / spoken word etc. Our friend has been asking us ( acoustic duo)

to do the opening set for a while, so we relented and gave it a go. 
There was a great PA to use ( QSC etc) so a fairly easy job to set up in the tiny room. We did an hour

of various stuff, working from a set list rather than our more usual requests format. I actually found 

it a bit daunting being in such a small room, crammed with people including a lot of musos. 
We settled into it after the first couple of tunes, opening with an instrumental version of ‘ I heard

it through the grapevine’ and then working through some blues, country and rock stuff. It went 

very quickly, and we got an encore too so people seemed to like what we did. It made an interesting

change from our usual gigs so glad we did it - we’ve been asked back so happy days. 
 

Fender Kingman bass / Rumble 100 / Clark’s boots

 

 

 

 

 

Nice pics. You guys always look distinguished and " well heeled ".

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

6 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Sometimes its a choice between cupboard or disabled toilet. That's when we clarify our contract that states changing room. 

Most venues provide decent changing areas that we can lock and have enough space for 4 guys and a lady. 

Because we all wear outfits for the show we need somewhere secure to leave our normal clothes when on stage.

Some would add that my stage clothes are my normal clothes but that's only at weekends and what i wear at home is my business. (see my avatar) 🤣

Dave

 

Dave,

 

2 months ago we played The Anodyne in Milwaukee.  Big " green room" with a private bathroom. We had an opening act and we were to be on stage at 8:00. Some day I'll have to share the story of why I was walking around in that bathroom completely naked at 7:50.

 

Daryl 

Edited 1 hour ago by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

6 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Most of the venues I am playing now have "green room" which is for all the bands to use for relaxing, getting changed and storing cases and gear when not playing. One venue even has separate changing rooms for the headlining and support bands. I've not seen the headliner's room, but the support band's room is tiny. Whilst you could get a 4-piece band in there it would be so cramped that no-one would actually be able to get changed and one person would be in the toilet!

 

The dressing / green room provided to us at Edison Hall. Not bad at all.

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

How about backstage at Lucy's at Wisconsin State Fair. We were sitting on folding chairs in the dirt next to several garbage dumpsters.lol

 

Daryl

Rock & Roll Daryl. 🤣

Dave

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Dave,

 

2 months ago we played The Anodyne in Milwaukee.  Big " green room" with a private bathroom. We had an opening act and we were to be on stage at 8:00. Some day I'll have to share the story of why I was walking around in that bathroom completely naked at 7:50.

 

Daryl 

I think today is a good day for that story Daryl. I'm intrigued now. 😂

Dave

[dmccombe7]

43 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

The dressing / green room provided to us at Edison Hall. Not bad at all.

 

Daryl

Now that is class.

Dave

[StingRayBoy42]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

We were sitting on folding chairs in the dirt next to several garbage dumpsters.lol

 

And they say it's not a glamourous business!