Yes, some a lot more! Something for a buck or two!
On the top deck of an open prime bus as it drove close to Nottingham.
Every single time the bus started and stopped, it jerked and you ended up with your mouthpiece rammed into your teeth! ght fit also.
I once helped out playing in a band for a river festival in France, sat on best of a moving boat. There wasn’t much room so the basses have been on a various level and couldn’t see the conductor. It was a blazing hot day and we only survived by getting regularly becoming passed bottles of beer.
On the leading floor of Abbey Pumping station. How on earth the basses and percussion got up the steep narrow stairs is anyones guess. Seating was a quite tight match too.
As a warm-up for a punk band at Bradford Uni in about 1989 – great crowd, when they weren’t gobbing all over the place…………
On a dull and drizzly Sunday morning, we arrived at a non-descript old airfield, I think Brooklands, close to Byfleet in Surrey. Here we located about forty truck drivers, brought collectively by their union to grumble about current rises in fuel charges and whinge that the government really should be decreasing taxes. Truck driving is not a normal occupation for gregarious individuals anyway, but all the guys there seemed to have big chips on the shoulders, and several of them objected to our music disturbing their misery, like the fantastic comment, “Why cannot you play some nation and western?” We played sufficient to get paid, with a brief break to get breakfast from the miserable owner of the breakfast van, then beat a hasty retreat back to the bandhall bar.
More recently, we have been provided really excellent cash to play for the Countryside Alliance march in London, but we turned them down right after numerous members stated they’d be out the door the next day if we took the task.
Our latest ‘rehearsal room’ in our hotel in scotland was correct up coming to the kitchen.
I daresay the smashing of plates only managed to increase ‘Macbeth’!
Not strictly a career, but funny anyway. I cant really go into all of the facts, but a couple of many years ago in the lead up to the old Spenymoor Entertainment contest we utilised a rehearsal venue which one particular of our then playing members had previously owned. Apparently in many years gone by it had been utilized a a specific type of “dancing” club… It was a bit of a tight squeeze obtaining all the gear in in between the different podiums etc, but we managed it. Worst issue was the only lighting offered was the flashing disco light and glitter ball! Needless to say, from what i can keep in mind i dont think the rehearsal was that productive.
Remember carrying out a truly bizarre gig when 8 of the band have been booked to play each and every evening on stage for a neighborhood am-dram production at the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh. Involved us sitting in the corner on a cardboard bandstand, playing the a tune at the starting, getting plunged into darkness, then playing the exact same point yet again at the finish (an hour and a bit later)…… and again if there have been curtain calls. Think it was some old wartime quantity called “I was walking in the park a single day” on a 16 bar loop! ten exhibits later we were completed (and accomplished in). If I ever hear that tune once again I can not be held accountable for my actions!! Enjoyable instances though, specifically the after-display celebration!
Talking of feeling foolish————- and a really weird gig at the very same time -
Couple of many years ago did New many years eve gig at Chester railway station, booked to play sousaphone with 4 piece jazz band. All we had to do was play for ten -15mins on the platform about midnight, to passengers of an Orient express train. Extremely weird seeing semi-drunk (really drunk in some circumstances) ladies in ball gowns, gents in black tie, quaffing champers on a railway platform.
The (intensely) foolish element of the evening was that I somehow managed to forget my mouthpiece (total plonker) and ended up miming, attempting to distract people by dancing about, clapping hands and so on. One drunken reveller even staggered up and asked me if she could have a blow (oo err).
I was slightly embarrassed when recieving a really sizeable cheque for blowing not a single note
My band played at a coffin convention for funeral directors. Was rather intersting playing in a area with coffins about the edge.
Reminds me of last year depping for BAE systems, playing outdoors, for a funeral directors convention evening function at Canary Warf, whilst individuals arrived. Soon after every person had arrived, some passing girls began heckling us, so we got them to sing along and do the actions to YMCA.
One more weird one was performing for a English design village fete set up within the NATO headquarters (Shape) close to Mons, Belgium.
Several numerous many years ago playing with Banks Brewery Band we did an Australian Christmas gig at the Whittington Public Residence. It was on 25th June if I bear in mind accurately……really weird when all the audience had been in hawain shirts and summer season gear……it was baking hot….and we were in full band uniform playing Carols and cheezy christmas medleys in June…..
Played a season for a circus….two exhibits a day , three on saturdays had to climb a ladder to the little platform 30ft above the ring.
Around the time of the millennium 2001 or thereabouts! A single evening, in the middle of a village green about three or four days prior to Christmas playing carols in the dark and half frozen to death, surrounded by a big amount of extremely hardy locals. Some holding torches, candles, or oil lamps for us to read the carols even though they sang along. We need to be daft, we did it for three or four far more many years at Christmas time.
Playing in a cupboard at a birthday party since the area was complete of tables and chairs Playing in a stable for a Buddhist Naming Ceremony Playing in a lay-by in the middle of nowhere to close to 100 men and women who just turn up and yes, The Penistone Properly Dressing (all with Thurlstone).
Of course, the Penistone Effectively Dressing is infamous for the faux-pas in 2005 when the flowers for the letters TONE have been the very same colour as the background, as a result producing them invisible and leaving the initial 5 letters of the town’s name clear for all to see. I collapsed in a heap of laughter when I saw it.
On November 5th 2006 our band and members from other bands from York had been positioned on different high buildings about the city and at specified timed intervals have been to play any selected notations that we needed to match into these timings whilst bells from different churches peeled out across the city,this was the weirdest thing I`ve ever been involved in, the views have been wonderful the music was horrible but we got a couple of totally free pints from the organisers afterwards !
Do not you just love these modern-day art things. Warwick did a task on the leading of a multi-story vehicle park on campus in 1997 as part of a similar ‘art installation’. No audience but loads of complaints from the library 500 yards away!!
At Peasholme Park a couple of many years later we have been just about to begin playing on the “Island” when the launch produced its way over and despatched an elderley gentleman in band uniform carrying a BBb Bass, he stumbled his way more than to the Bass section who produced a chair for him and a stand total with music.We started out playing and the old boy was making some very strange sounds but no one particular mentioned anything as we all presumed that he was a buddy of someone in the band .When it came to the interval it steadily dawned on us that no one new him at all . It turned out that he was supposed to be assisting out the band that had played the previous week and had actually come out of retirement to do so ,sadly a week late,,,,,,,aaah bless him !
Playing marches for individuals to dance to at a Hindu wedding in the automobile park of the Midland Hotel in Manchester. That was a really confusing experience.
That is all for now! ^,^
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