How was your gig last night?

[Bluewine]

On 27/08/2025 at 03:36, Greg Edwards69 said:

We've played a number of weddings over the years - often for family members or friends of friends, so we've rarely charged big bucks.  But yes, they're usually a long day, typically around 12 hours from leaving and getting back home (even longer if we're invited as guests as well) - certainly longer than a regular day at work. I think the longest we did was 22 hours after leaving home at 6 in the morning for a wedding in Cambridgeshire for a morning set up. Didn't get home until 4 in the morning because the soundman's vehicle broke down on the motorway.

 

This does mean there's often a bit of to-and-fro when negotiating for weddings, as they don't understand that they're paying for more than just 2 hours of music.

 

Weddings have always been  disastrous for us. We're about as far from a wedding band as you can get. We've played a few as a favor to friends and family. Always small budget weddings in the basement of legion hall with card tables and folding chairs.

 

Our wedding gigs can be described with one word, " embarassing ".

 

Daryl

 

[Marvin]

Good fun last night if not a bit odd.

 

Our 5th gig and definitely our strongest one so far. None of us have been the ones who've sorted out the sound etc so it's been a steep learning curve. Last night we felt we'd turned a corner. Set up quickly and the mix and sound was much better than previously. 

 

 

It was also our strongest performance as such. 

 

It was one of those though where people told us afterwards we were great and loved the set, but didn't really get up and have a wee jig. 

We enjoyed it nonetheless