Sorry - this post is all about me.
First Wedding: Two of Debbie 'banjo' Smith's friends are getting married and they have chosen their wedding band - lo! It shall be The Nuns! The all-girl Monks tribute band I play guitar for...We decide to go all-white rather than our usual all-black garb for the special occasion. Not sure how suitable Nuns hits such as 'I Hate You' and songs about Vietman and constipation are to a wedding but the bride and groom are happy if not their more sedate relatives. It's good to be educational though I think. And there was LOTS of cake!
Second Wedding: Somehow (through saying 'yes' too much without thinking) I am playing in a wedding band put together as a special one-off for the wedding of a sister of a friend. We drive miles and miles and miles out to the middle of nowhere. really really really nowhere....we are in a caravan park. Fine - we can play in a caravan park. But no....we are still lost....soon we find our real destination. The poshest stately home ever with croquet all set up ready to play on the lawn, chandeliers bigger than my living room and plenty of staff who keep bringing bottles of wine, cake, icecream, cake, weird food, cake....Our band finally get to the venue half an hour before stage time. Did i mention that we've never all met and played together before? 29 minutes before stage time and i am fizzy with panic, stressing over the fact that the laidback guitarist has just decided to change the key of one of the songs and we still haven't decided how many verses to do of other songs.
EVentually we are playing. I am pushing as hard as I can for an out of body experience so I can be somewhere else....but! people are dancing! people like it! blimey! even really old people like it and are twisting and doing proper old-people dancing to Beatles and Monkees and Chiffons songs! I have decided I really like posh people.
Onstage Funeral: My newest band 'Now' have been booked to play Skill Wizard club night at Old Blue Last. We are kinda gentle kraut-pop drone mantra double-drummered synth and percussion joys. I wasn't really sure we were a Skill Wizard band when they booked us...but let's give it a go...and go they do...the audience that is....Oh dear. Sometimes it's good being a drummer cos you get to hide at the back.
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The crowd always thins for every band we have there, don't take it personally. People don't seem to like live music, it's weird. Thanks for playing, hope it was somewhat enjoyable. Marek Wizard x
Hello Marek,
I was sad we made people go downstairs and I hope they came back for the other bands. I would have stayed to see Dethscalator and the others but I had a prior commitment I had to leg it too as soon as we'd finished. Sorry! I liked the decor and the DJ in a pointy elf hat thingy and the effort put in. Cool!
Thank you for having us!
Deliaa
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