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Yeah, and they spill beer everywhere, bastards!

Call security ;-).

Rob

The worst ones are the ones who can really really sing ..... we got accosted by a bloke back in my cabaret days who started singing with us doing Elvis "Suspicious minds" makes me shudder even now, but this guy was awesome, had the crowd going wild and even did the whole elvis schmaltz in the breakdown..... Our singer at the time had a face like a slapped arse.... How do you follow that? This guy even says at the end of the song "do you know any more?" ha ha ha cue singer looking like his chips are ninety percent piss and no chips shouting "No we dont £$%ck off!" Priceless!!

a guy used to get up at hindly arms and sing whole lotta rosie , one time we had two guy from a blues brother tribute up at the millstone in Darwen and a huge guy singing ace of spades at a biker bash, sometimes you just have to say no.

A pub called the knowsley in Bury used to have an old guy who was always playing spoons along with the bands/jukebox anything..... Saw a band doing Am I evil by metallica... There were bits of the old boys wrists everywhere! That'll learn him!

we finish off (usually) with a blues brothers medley thing and one time this fella asked if he could join us: lots of backing vocal oppurtunities so we said yeh! He dissapears for a minute... a resurfaces with a saxophone!! He was awesome!!!

I used to get it loads in the Irish band...."can I sing Danny Boy?" (FFS)

Luckily we were saved by...wait for it......................Kareoke! These people now have somewhere else to go and I respect kareoke for this. Yes I may be in a minority but I believe that kareoke does musicians a good service.

every week twice a week..we used to do live band kareoke...lol

mmmmm...the well oiled "supprise" guest is a bad idea, i watched a band years ago where a drunken performance ended with a stumble backwards onto a guitar and a sickening snapping sound as the guitar neck became no more.

@JS. Yep, that would be my worst nightmare, followed by inserting said snapped neck firmly where the sun doesn't shine up said drunken bums arse! Sorry but its a pet hate of mine where some drunk wants to share your space with you, time to pack up n leave or just let the band play!

Whenever we played The Mariners in Windermere, another local singer from another NWB band who shall remain nameless (they know who they are)used to insist on getting up to sing AC/DC,usually leathered. On one occasion he didn`t ask first and just barged his way in front of me and grabbed the mic. I took issue at this , so grabbed him by the knackers and squeezed. He was so pissed he didn`t even flinch ! I was practically swinging off his balls and he just kept going-priceless. Helped him hit the notes though......

We get.

My girlfriend is a great singer so can she duet on Seperate Lives with you?

Answer

No we don't do the song anyway( as it's crap)

Retort

Can't you learn it now?

Response

Fugg off you tw@

;-)

Just say no.....no!..just say no..

Punter: Cab I get up and sing with you?

Me: No

Punter: Will you do Black Velvet?

Me: No

Punter: Will you autgraph my friend's breasts:

Me: Yes

Nice one MES ;-(

@ MES " yes in my own unique way!"

My response to this request is always delivered in a diplomatic yet sincere manor... 'No, now fuck off'. The best ones are the ones that try to grab the mic off you... I actually look forward tot his part of the evening now, just to see the fear in the eyes of the pissed up punter when Big Mart stands up and gives them the evil death stare. Then continues to tell them to politely refrain from touching anything on stage or he will touch there heads in way that will end in said cranium no longer being on pissed up punters shoulders.

if holding said microphone, how much of a laugh is it to turn it towards them, offering them a chance to warble their best, when, all of a sudden as they draw breath, twat them in the nose with it. If your timing is spot on, you'll hear the twang over the PA.
Aaaaaaah lovely!
The apologise profusely saying how unfortunate it was for him/her to trip at that exact moment!
Willowneverdoneithonest!

hahaha genius

bloke came up to me 'Can I play mouthorgan with you?'...bit dubious, expecting the worse, turned out he was British Harmonica Champ, 3 years running
this guy in fact...part of the Night Train family..must bring him down some time for a gig..who's gonna book us then?

on the reverse side of the coin, at our Bolton gigs we always have at least two guys turning up with harmonicas (there are six regular ones in the town)who wanna play along with us...thing is their harps are always in different keys to the song they wanna play with (not that they can play anyway LOL)
AND
we have a mad sax player who always comes and plays with us when he discovers where we're playing...

We don't have too many people asking to sing with us (probably because they're THAT pissed & exhausted from all the pogoing), but our singer's niece used to get up and sing 'Ever Fallen In Love' with us...got the audience goin mental she did...great voice and a model too so you can imagine the comments being shouted from the pissed up guys in the audience.

Here's a vid of her singing with us (band was old line up though) - vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44039790

Her myspace is - www.myspace.com/rebellepixie

Great fun!

Normally it's a NO, but once, we did have a persistent wannabe backing singer, so the sound engineer put her on a mike, which he promptly switched off ;-)
Gotta say that my per hate is out of time tambourine playing throughout the whole set.

Rob

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