Kiwi Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Normally it's us who are supposed to be the entertainment but sometimes that gets reversed. I remember one gig my band did at the King's Head in Crouch End where the audience took over singing and we backed them instead. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 I played at a Viking Festival in the middle of last year. I knew mine was going to be the first set on the weekend's music programme; what I didn't realise was that it was also the beginning to pretty much the entire event. So I played a set to a group of people dressed up in Norse togs, carrying drinking hons and replica battleaxes, who didn't yet have enough alcohol inside them to get properly rowdy. The most sedate bunch of Vikings I've ever seen, but a very friendly bunch. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardMarlowe Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 On 08/01/2020 at 08:57, Kiwi said: Normally it's us who are supposed to be the entertainment but sometimes that gets reversed. I remember one gig my band did at the King's Head in Crouch End where the audience took over singing and we backed them instead. Easier for a band than a stand-up comic.... Not my gig, but this is too good not to recall.... I remember being in the Camden Falcon back in 1999, when that was the base of the Barfly Club (before it moved to the Monarch on the main drag, but I digress...). The much-missed Angelica were on stage, and as they often did, the girls invited the audience to 'heckle us - give us your best insult!'. Somebody in the middle of the crowd yelled out "You were clearly influenced by the Stereophonics!" Used to have some pretty bizarre audiences back in thed dayswhen I MC'ed a Rocky Horror crowd, but that's probably another story, not on a par with those of you who've done legit gigs! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkandrew Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 In my "other" band (ie. The g*th one, not the Britpop one) we once played a club night at Skin Two - now that was an interesting audience! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardMarlowe Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Interesting - and wipe-clean! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
