Feelings while playing live??

[FatHand]

I feel ace when I play.

I've been to some ace gigs recently. A mixture of well attended and some not so well but enjoyed them all. Some really good local bands going around and of very mixed styles. I'm pretty sure they all feel ace when they play too.

[Gus Chamber]

I think 'da scene' up here has changed quite a lot over the past 8-10 years and some of the energy about local gigs and a sense of occasion/communion/etc has been swallowed up in the translation, and there are too many underdeveloped bands playing piss poor gigs in too many venues with not all that many people coming through the door. For me, playing in front of the same pocketful of people in the same old places with no fun and no money became downright depressing after a while.

With a handful of exceptions, it is really quite dire at this level just now.

This. Being up there doing the set on stage is fine and dandy, and that side of things will always take care of itself. All the other bollocks that's involved with gigging I really can't be fucked with nowadays. Da Punx are always the first to piss and moan about how there's fuck all happening and how shit "the scene" is but they're also always the last to get up off their scruffy arses and do something themselves. Still, negative apathy's punk, innit? Maybe if they started creating something and didn't sit around waiting for someone to entertain them (assuming the cunts actually paid to get in in the first place instead of slithering around with their carry-outs just outside the venue) the scene wouldn't be quite so "shit". And maybe "the punk scene" will be more than just a handy fig-leaf for their drink and drug dependency...

It's like everything in life, you get out what you put in. And if you don't actively support the scene, don't complain when you discover one day that there isn't one left.

"We hate the Brew Crew"

[Guest Bob Double Jack]

i love playing live, it's the dogs baws. got nervous up to about 15 years ago, but not anymore. Best thing I did was stop drinking before playing - the 2 don't mix!

mistakes - who cares ! as long as they're not too bad, laugh it off and keep going. and don't stop and restart the tune ,.

[Soda Jerk]

Ah right, I getcha. And him. The second point of my post that you quoted still completely stands, however.

I read it wrong too. Aren't we a set of bastards.

[Guest idol_wild]

I read it wrong too. Aren't we a set of bastards.

A shower of, no less. Though can two people constitute a "shower"? Fuck it, they can now.

[jon]

I saw two people constitute in a shower once. Worst caravaning holiday ever.

[Guest idol_wild]

I saw two people constitute in a shower once. Worst caravaning holiday ever.

Golden??

[jon]

Nah, they were about 20.

[Lemonade]

I saw two people constitute in a shower once. Worst caravaning holiday ever.

When you say caravanning, do you really mean cottaging?

[SooperKeef]

lol i never knew this thread would get so much feedback (the good kind not the amp kind) thanks for all this info ill hopefully be inspired when im playing next