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14 Apr 2009

Nutters ! - Please share your knowledge of gig 'nutter's'

Filed Under : Music , Other

Posted By : Drum Bloke™ - that bloke that drums | Comments : 9

Fair warning - about a guy at the Wigan Boulevard...Anyone had the pleasure ?

Not dangerous, just very insistant and leech like...

After another dep gig at the boulevard with Sin after Sin, a chap accosted Tony the singer to tell him how he was going to do things for the band as he thought that after watching the gig we would be 'massive'. He spent ages filling Tony in with details of how he knew someone at KERRANG!! and was going to get a review wrirtten up and put in some publication or other, he then came to me telling me to join the bandOR I won' t be in the review!!. I mentioned you cannot get famous playing covers (anymore) to which his reply was .."why not? They do it in dance music - sampling an that.."
The guy would just not leave us alone...he was following us outside whilst we packed the gear away, I wouldn't of mind if he carried some stuff whilst he was following us !!!

mmmm obviously a few custard creams short of a Peak Freans assortment..

Comments

# Posted by Angel Of Sin - 14/04/2009, 10:58 (GMT)

We used to get one like that about every 2 months or so.
Also punters declaring their undying love for our singer with about the same frequency.
We seem to get less now with playing slightly better venues and the singer's fiance doing our live sound at most gigs.
Jon AoS.

# Posted by Anthem - 14/04/2009, 11:06 (GMT)

every pub has it's resident nutter, they're harmless enough. What does me is the resident 'muso's' that point out that you missed 2 notes out of the solo on freebird or sang a (and I quote) 'slightly different form of vibrato on the long note towards the end, thus creating a scenario that embarrassed myself when singing along at the bar'
Give me the nutters any day

# Posted by SABRE - 14/04/2009, 12:14 (GMT)

i used to be a nutter, the only way LOKI could get me out of the audience was to let me join the band, haha.

# Posted by Wrecked - 14/04/2009, 12:24 (GMT)

Ahhh, the pub nutter, there are many types. However,I just point them in Pauls direction with "Talk to him, he's the leader".
Steve

# Posted by Drum Bloke™ - that bloke that... - 14/04/2009, 13:48 (GMT)

Yes Wrecked, I (usually) manage to evade them being the enigmatic retiring type, i.e. Not the 'mong magnet'

# Posted by Born2Rock - 14/04/2009, 17:18 (GMT)

When all avenues of tact and diplomacy have been exhausted i find that a simple `Look mate,why dont ya just P*** OFF ` works a treat!!

# Posted by delete 79 - 15/04/2009, 13:22 (GMT)

anybody whos gigged the queens in colne will know of dennis.
he's the guy who believes he is elvis! fucking weirdo, but fucking legend all the same!!!

# Posted by Anthem - 15/04/2009, 15:59 (GMT)

looks a little like jim bowen doesn't he?

# Posted by 'BLUE SLICKERS' - 16/04/2009, 14:08 (GMT)

During the Eighties in Chorlton I was in a band called "the Apex Beat Company" We had a reguler nutter called Vinnie who would arrive at gigs on crutches shouting "Hey Babies!" we'd launch into our first number and he'd still be audible above the p.a., by the middle of the set and several beers later he'd lurch to the front of the stage throw away the crutches shout "Babies! I'm a Miracle" and proceed to dance like a cross between the Wigan casino's finest and Uncle Jed out of the Beverly Hillbillies for an hour whence he would reclaim his crutches and collapse in the corner and sleep until removed...bless him.

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