Protium Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 We set up amps and PA in a friends back garden for his birthday, and also once played in a Conservative members club and got a lifetime ban Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 The main hall of the Natural History Museum next to the dinosaur skeleton. Worst acoustic ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4-string-thing Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 My mates old band once did a gig in Rampton high security hospital, apparently they didn't want to let the drummer out afterwards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 The singer in my current band did a Prison gig up in Scotland, Johnny Cash style. I'd also add school assembly back in the 80s was a weird one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Chesterfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [quote name='Master blaster' post='929588' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:39 AM']in a Leprosy musium in taddiport, devon.[/quote] When did you play there? It's very close to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tino Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [quote name='twowheeledwriter' post='929545' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:08 AM']Tonight our band is playing at the local naturist camp at Cap d'Agde on the south-east French coast. The venue is a bar at a naturist camp site. Cap d'Agde is well-known for it's naturist facilities and attracts people from all over Europe, especially Germans. I'm guessing that concentrating on playing the bass might be difficult when confronted with a naked/semi-naked audience. To answer the most obvious question, no, I will not be hiding naked behind my bass as I expect to be dressed, as will the rest of the band.[/quote] Finchley Manorhill Secondary Modern ...North Finchley....think 1977 with the Damned and Eater....and some little twat they called Deegenerate who actually thought he was better than Rat got in a row and had to be saved by his mummy .....Christ I was sh*te only saving grace was the mohair dennis the menace jumpers my mum had knitted for us.... AHHHHH those was the daze those woz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tut Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 The Campbell Centre - secure mental health unit in Milton Keynes. If I was going to be mentally ill and need to be secure I can't think of a nicer place to get better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [quote name='Mykesbass' post='930236' date='Aug 19 2010, 08:05 PM']The main hall of the Natural History Museum next to the dinosaur skeleton. Worst acoustic ever![/quote] +1.... been there... we ended up moving up the steps and played on the first floor landing.... bit better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-soar Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Played at the Oxford Street HMV and the PA went on fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumble Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 [quote]The nudist gig will be horrible. You just know the audience will all be saggy 50 year olds who really should keep their clothes on... laugh.gif[/quote] OII!!!! Thats my target audience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-soar Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I reckon a load of you have played Kidderminster Market Tavern but for those that didn't, it's a bar, next to a cattle auction shed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBod Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Cave was good - sound was pretty nice, but it was a bit of a trek down, and everything felt cold and damp after a few hours. Looked great with candles everywhere - I'm told they do the best Santa's grotto ever.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 [quote name='Mykesbass' post='930236' date='Aug 19 2010, 08:05 PM']The main hall of the Natural History Museum next to the dinosaur skeleton. Worst acoustic ever![/quote] I did the V&A with Doreen's band, mass reverb, very odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottomEndian Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 [quote name='silddx' post='930665' date='Aug 20 2010, 10:27 AM']I did the V&A with Doreen's band, mass reverb, very odd.[/quote] Man, this is doing my head in. I was thinking, "Huh? Pete played with Doreen too?" Yours in avatar-confusion, Whoever-the-hell-I-am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toddy Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 [quote name='silddx' post='930341' date='Aug 19 2010, 08:57 PM']Chesterfield[/quote] Classic,,,,,,, wont tell the Diamond Club !! ha,,, Also did a gig on an aeroplane,,,more entertainment than music tho,,,tis tricky at 20000ft !! (no - not being rude either,,, oooer missis) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E sharp Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 [quote name='grumble' post='930419' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:23 PM']OII!!!! Thats my target audience [/quote] That's until they see you on that Far Eastern web site you put a link to - they may change their minds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Harland & Wollf shipyard on top of my own 30ft scaff tower which was part of a circle of 8 such towers each with it's own dedicated PA stack all rigged to an 8 way joy-stick on the PA. The dancers came down from the ceiling and threw chalk and earth at the audience. We were fearsomely loud and we got paid well. You have to love groundbreaking theatre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheeledwriter Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 Well, we did it. Unfortunately, the weather was dodgy - a sea mist was rolling in so we didn't quite get the "sunset at the beach" vibe we expected. Still, there were plenty of saggy over 50s who really should have been dressed. We played on the terrace of the Sun Beach bar - see the second photo in the "diaporama" here: [url="http://www.chm-reneoltra.fr/content/fr/Diaporama/11"]Cap d'Agde, Rene Oltra[/url] My concentration was definitely affected by some of the sights - in one corner, an naked older man had his hand between the legs of a naked younger man and was giving him, ahem, a little massage..., I also cracked up when a naked, saggy 50yr old wandered in front of us his with his "junk" wobbling about. I arrived late with the singer (and her husband who was there to protect her...) and spent 10 minutes driving through the camp site trying to find the entrance to the bar. Our tour around the site was "interesting". Lots of saggy, mostly shaved, mostly older people. Lots of naked men and women on bikes - this doesn't look so easy for men in the saddle area. Also, as it was a cooler evening, there were plenty of people in t-shirts and nothing else... what's that all about? Naked from the waist down only... On the other hand, this was basically normal naturist behaviour - people being naked and free. Though, I couldn't help laughing... After the gig (which, to be honest, wasn't great - I think we were all distracted), we stayed on to have a meal and check out the night life in the bars, clubs and restaurants. Here, the men were dressed quite conservatively, but many of the women were in tight fitting short dresses and high heels, displayed varying amounts of flesh. Apparently, underwear was in short supply. My overall impression? The place was as expected, based on what I had been told. I found it all quite amusing. But also it's great that there's a place where people can go and do as they please, be uninhibited and let it all hang out. Next time I'll take the wife. Sorry - no photos that show anything of interest - it really didn't seem appropriate to take pictures. And I'm not sure it would have been welcomed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 HMP Latchmere House, 9/11, the day the twin towers fell - the prisoners called for a minutes silence before giving a concert that made some of the professionals I have known look a bit sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lfalex v1.1 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 A graveyard. Belonging to whatever church in Hitchin (Herts.) is down by the river by near the town centre. I'd worked nightshift on the Friday, so had been awake from 1900h on that day. When we hit the stage it was about 1630h and I hadn't slept. By the time I got home, I'd been awake about 24hours. And I played fretless. And drove the whole band. Interesting 24 hours. Crowd was big (Hitchin was closed off for the music festival) Still one of the biggest audiences I've played to. I guess around 800-1000 people... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 On top of a mountain called Mount Kent in the Falkland Islands. You had to get up there by helicoptor.. The gig was in side a load of giant containers welded together to make some kind of accomadation. In fact the gig was at three different mountains and they all look the same [ all welded together] Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molan Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 The main dinosaur hall at the Natural History Museum for a Price Waterhouse coopers summer ball - playing right behind T-Rex & over-awed by the amazing architecture : Great gig - first, and only, night that we got a band 'rider' for food & drink. They even supplied our own private chef & a waitress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essexbasscat Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 (edited) As a bassist - a large garden shed on a set of allotments, Evesham hall (a large Norfolk mansion built on the profits of the sugar cane slave trade) and a list of back gardens with a band. As a brass band member - backs of trucks travelling around town between while I was 12 -15 yrs old, outside tube stations at November every year and wandering around town supporting carol singers playing trumpet. I don't remember being pelted with anything I do remember hearing the 80's band The Christians gigged a Westminster toilet for charity Quality ! T Edited August 22, 2010 by essexbasscat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 [quote name='owen' post='930742' date='Aug 20 2010, 11:27 AM']Harland & Wollf shipyard on top of my own 30ft scaff tower which was part of a circle of 8 such towers each with it's own dedicated PA stack all rigged to an 8 way joy-stick on the PA. The dancers came down from the ceiling and threw chalk and earth at the audience. We were fearsomely loud and we got paid well. You have to love groundbreaking theatre [/quote] sounds mental strangest place for me was on a stage in the middle of metroland - the kiddies indoor amusement park in the metrocentre, gateshead. he had a kiddies rollercoaster going by overhead as we played and we were surrounded by statues of gnomes and mushrooms... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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