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I was about 17-18, the engineer had decided to wire a phase unit into my guitar that ran off 3 9volt batteries. All went well until the sweat caused a short circuit, promptly setting fire to my shirt. The crowd loved it and oh how we laughed all the way to the burns unit

Too many nightmares, too few dreams.

Mr.NWB and Whatever were talking about this clip, it talks for itself...n

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Played the Bull's Head at Milnthorpe.Spilt a pint of Guiness over the PA mixer amp in the first number.Carried on doing vocals through our Bass player's spare bass amp.Shocking! Same gig our drummer started with a nose bleed mid number but carried on playing,blood falling everywhere.I had to stuff a tissue up his nostril to stem the bleeding and he never stopped.

Tell that to kids today and they won't believe you!

losing both sticks playing a rather drunken drum solo during "rock and roll"-they flew halfway across the pub!! once the guys (and audience) stopped laughing i had to go pick 'em up (my spares were still in the van!! - lesson learned!!) )

:-) didn't live it down for quite a while - after that it was my fingerless bike gloves for grip and a promise from the bar staff never to serve me more than two pints until after the gig!!

My worst was with my covers band "The Clan" and we were playing at the JJB stadium at a supposedly quite well to do party!

Evryone was very drunk when we got up to do our set so we inevitably were going down well- however we could have played the spoon and gone down well that night...

Half way through our set a "rucus" occured at the back of the room and we were advised to stop the set whilst the doormen can in and cleared it all up...and the ambulance came to take away the injured.

When we got back up we lasted about two minutes before it all went off and the chairs andtables started flying....police and amulance again- and a good hours worth of mass scrapping and nonsense whilst we tried to get our kit away BONKERS!!!

I did play an acoustic night at the castle hotel in manchester town centre recently that I can highly recommend people to stay away from!!!

hmm...a very long time ago a speaker once fell on top of me in the middle of a gig...that was very sore and a bit embarrassing but had to keep playing as we had a full house :>)

I once had a bright idea for our smoke machine ........

The singer said he wanted some "colured" smoke instead of the white stuff ....... so I priced some colured smoke liqiud up (it was around £20 per small bottle), so deciding that this was way too dear ........ I had other ideas for coloured smoke !!!!!

I make my own curries using dried spices ...... so can you guess what I did ?????

Got some Tumeric and some Tandori colouring and added it to the plain smoke liquid in the machine ....... it went a really nice colur when I looked at it !!!!!

Got to the next gig and set the smoke machine up and as we went on I gave it a really big blast !!!!!!!

What happened ........ well we got a funny coulored smoke out of it but ...... WE STUNK THE PUB OUT !!!! SMELLED JUST LIKE AN INDIAN RESTERAUNT !!!!! ...... needless to say I got bollocked by the landlord !!!!!!

Ohhhh and the smoke machine packed up a few days later !!!!!!

well it seemed a good money saving idea at the time !!!!! lol

recently did a gig at a venue in altrincham tht will remain nameless, L/L "gave" us some smoke fluid (We didnt need it) to use in our machine which he said was better. turned out it was the stuff that goes off in Banks and building societies when they get robbed. nobody could see a thing and all went home with a sore throat !! Looked at the bottle after the gig and it had a warning on it.....jeeezz

Reply to MR NWB .......... ohhh my bloody goodness !!!!!! (spoken with an accent of course !!! lol)

Setting up in a venue new to us to be confronted by a very drunk snooker cue wielding bloke who told us all to f**k off - turned out he was the land lord! Deciding to cut our losses started to pack up. We were then told by a woman 'its me who's payin you so you'll f**kin play! Talk about duckin & divin! We survived the night and played played the venue a couple more times with similar jovial company LOL before gibbing it.

About 15 years or so ago did a gig at a club in Liverpool, but 2 days before I had a very traumatic little surgical procedure - vasectomy!

The op didn't go well, my 'nethers' we're bruised to the colour of damsons and my stitches came out the day of the gig. With the help of cocodamol, a little dressing/padding (to make sure nothing else fell off) and standing with legs apart I grimaced through the gig, and certainly with no Pete Townsend like acrobatics.

At least I didn't have to carry any of the PA or even my own gear.

Another one was in the Guzzlin Goose in Ashton. This was a Sunday teatime gig. A guy in the pub had obviously been in the place all day the result of which was him being as confused as a newt. His missus came in and told him to come home, to which he replied along the lines that he'd rather stay in the pub. After much shouting, effing and jeffing his good lady wife left - alone. Only to return 20 minutes later with 2 black bin liners containing all his clothes, which were duly emptied on him. I don't think he was that bothered the state he was in. Sadly, this cabaret was more entertaining than us!