At the beginning of June I played some cover songs at an open mic session and it went down quite well. This time however I decided to try out my own stuff: different audience – sound wasn’t right – couldn’t hear the vocals and I had a heckler! And Barry couldn’t find the right key for the harp despite a week’s practice. Oh boy! But here’s some of the footage anyway to remind us that life doesn’t always go to plan and ‘you need the bad times to know how good it can be!’ Whoever said that deserves to be forced to play solo at the Dartmouth Arms!
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One problem here Brian is that most pubs are closing down and things may have moved further afield, though like Devon better - how pubs should really be (-;
@ UJ - they liked the first one which was a bit rocky and the last one relies on the lyrics so you are probably right - the regulars at the venue we are playing this weekend are used to new material so we should be OK
@Steve T - see above! The jam sessions I used to go to or organise in Central and North London in the 80's/early 90's were well attended - times change I guess
@TB j - thanks - it was worth doing anyway - had bad nighst before and I'm sure it won't be the last!
Next week I'll be playing a mix of covers and new stuff so hopefully it will work - meantime I've got to sack my harp player!
Round here they are only interested in tribute bands, the main place here tried an original unknown, but good, band one night and hardly anyone turned up....and open mics are very few and far between. There is a pub locally that does acoustic folk music, singer-songwriters, but very few turn up to watch. Any hecklers would get thrown out by "security" at all these places, anyway!
Brian the playing sounded good. Open mike deals can be tough. We want to be heard, but sometimes the crowd wants to talk not listen. What seems to work best at the ones I go to are either familiar to the crowd songs or rocking songs.
Probably the best audience for original songs is right here on the nation. Good on ya. Keep at it.
how supportive of you all - thanks. Next Sunday of course WE will be in control and the natives should be friendlier. Part of the problem was they were all young uns and didn't really get it. Actually the heckler was an enormous guy but we had an interesting chat about mandolins afterwards so I put it down to high spirits - oh and I have some footage of him murdering some 12 bar blues so I got my revenge!
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@ UJ - they liked the first one which was a bit rocky and the last one relies on the lyrics so you are probably right - the regulars at the venue we are playing this weekend are used to new material so we should be OK
@Steve T - see above! The jam sessions I used to go to or organise in Central and North London in the 80's/early 90's were well attended - times change I guess
@TB j - thanks - it was worth doing anyway - had bad nighst before and I'm sure it won't be the last!
Next week I'll be playing a mix of covers and new stuff so hopefully it will work - meantime I've got to sack my harp player!
Brian the playing sounded good. Open mike deals can be tough. We want to be heard, but sometimes the crowd wants to talk not listen. What seems to work best at the ones I go to are either familiar to the crowd songs or rocking songs.
Probably the best audience for original songs is right here on the nation. Good on ya. Keep at it.
well handled Sir!!! i can take insults on a daily basis, but as long as i'm not competing with a fruit machine i'll be ok...
would love to play the Dartmouth Arms solo...worse things have happened there !! (-;
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