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Haha, you want the horror....
We turned up to a gig in Flixton near Manchester, only to realise that we had left tha PA head in the studio we practise in, in ...wait for it......Huddersfield!!
No alternative, but to send our bass player to get it (he thinks he's Jason Button!) Luckily he managed the round trip before we were due to go on.

Hahahaha.

We suffered from GHOSTS in Samlesbury hall last weekend. Half the PA went down, and all but one quad light, AND most of the mics. Luckily not the main vocal. The staff genuinely blamed it on ghost activity. We blame dodgy electrics, as the gear ALL ran fine at the drummers gaff the day after.


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!!!!!

cant really beat that but ive got a guitar that works fine at home and at practice but the mintue i use it at a gig the pickup switch starts playing up and the sound eventually cuts out. bastard!

another one was when we arrived at the gig, set up, sound checked and all was fine. went to get up and start playing and the pa had blown a fuse! we had to use one out of the pubs dvd player!

One of guitarists very kindly left both my Bass guitars in his garage. He lives in Sheffield and we were playing in Birmingham. Thank god we were working with a support band who pulled me/him out of the shite. Since then I keep my spare at home. Good eh. The dosey f*^ker.

blowing a brand new pod XT and having to gig with a roland micro cube

Alyerpal,should have asked paul to give me a bell l live in flixton you could av had our PA !! 2mins from the footy club!!!

# Posted by mr.nwb - 08/07/2009, 16:36 (GMT)

How about breaking two guitar strings, and not having any spares strings, or backup guitar!!

Beat that!

Same happened to Martin our guitarist and when he swopped to the Les Paul,SNAP...straight away another b string......and he normally never breaks em.....had to use singers guitar which robbed Roy of his glory song (he only plays rhythm on 2 or 3 tunes),,,,,, And dont mention guitar leads.....

How's about your bass player knocking his beer all over my monitor, then during a song, then thing goes berzerk. Imagine trying to drum and switch it off at the same time lol

Just remembered about our gig at The M Club a couple of weeks ago. We were packing away after playing to a full house (not) and in has hast the sound engineer's mate started tugging away at an xlr lead and pulled our logo over. Thank god nobody or any instruments were stood were it fell.Our logo was badly damaged but it couls have been so much worse.

That really annoys me. Knobheads that just yank on leads without tracing them to source first. Rank amateur.

We played in Saltburn near Middlesbrough, we live in Wigan (150 miles. Upon setting up a realised Id left my case at home which contains all my leads, the channel changer for my amp, wah peddle and tuner!

Hahahahahahaha....flippin' great all these stories, can relate to 'em so much, the joys of giggin' eh?
We turned up at a wedding once, early, by chance and our guitarist' switched on his marshall valve amp, let it warm up, struck his first chord in the sound check and......nothing.!!!
All the way back to Warrington from Skipton to get his spare(which we didnt take), made it back in time though!
A lesson learnt eh?

The first time we played in Wesham, about 40 mins from here, we got there, unloaded all the stuff only to realise that the bass player had left his bass head at home.
Luckily his missus was coming later, but it was hilarious listening to him on the phone trying to explain what it looked like and where it was in the house.

hee hee

Hey, just remembered another one (and we got away with it, thank god)
Renegade played The New Inn, Walkden, Set the P.A. up as usual and the stack's looked okay. Half way through the first set one of the tops tumbles down onto a table where there several bits of stuff siting around it and tished the table, drinks etc, but thankfully none of the girls who were injured. P.L.I. none, god how lucky were we. (Mick, BH, you must remember that one). Lesson learned and PA stackes were tethered from then on.

Roj

LOL! I remember that Roj! Completely flattened my chicken butty too!

Our drummer sag fitted his trailer on to his car and drove to stags head bolton gig and when he got there he'd forgot to load up his drums so he rushed back to heywood to get his stuff and picked up a speeding ticket on the way ....thers 100's more to tell about him ,,as many who know him will know !!!
Ive forgot to load my guitars for a gig .....i also forgot to put them in the car and were left on mos gate car park ..luckily rays lad found them and took them in ...derr !!
Our van broke down on way to do a Barracks gig down birmingham way ..so the AA towed us down to the gig and after a heavy nite inc 4am champagne breakfast they got us up at 8am to load our gear into there taupaulin covered trucks with us lot in back all thw way back to rochdale in the wind and rain .....they said they wud use our van for target practice.....oh and theres the story of the gig on the cutty sark in portsmouth and the one about ................;-)

'The first time we played in Wesham, about 40 mins from here, we got there, unloaded all the stuff only to realise that the bass player had left his bass head at home'

Maybe it's something about Wesham,we turned up without a bassplayer!
Not in his diary!Nobody told him!Didn't Know!Bit of a panic phonecall.........
He made it,albeit a little late.

Posted by Twin Lizzy:
"..one of the tops tumbles down.."
.
We did a wedding 2 years ago, and after we'd finished the 2nd set, we put some music on through our PA, and buggered off for a pint...
..(15mins later) CRASH! Some tit had gone on to the stage, mitherin' about some song he wanted, and he'd tripped over one of the speaker stands and brought it down, whilst knockin' himself out on the dance floor, with people rushing to his aid...
I turned round as I heard the crash and said to a fella at the side of me, "That f***in' speaker had better be ok!!"..
It wasn't, and the guy's brother paid for a new driver... and Mr.Trip lived another day..
Advice: Don't use stands! We now have bass bins and poles!

(I do have a heart, but not for self-inflicted nobbish-ness! lol)

Hey Mick, just remember your chicken butty. Did you still eat it though. LOL. bum tish

# Posted by Twin Lizzy - 09/07/2009, 15:50 (GMT)

Hey Mick, just remember your chicken butty. Did you still eat it though. LOL. bum tish


Sadly it was beyond repair!

It was all bloody breast too!

HAHAHAHAHAHA.......on my back reading these.. keep 'em coming guys..please.

Mothers Ruin.. you should write a book, you're drummer sounds a star.

We played Llandudno, (about 1hr from us) a few weeks back, get there with plenty of time to spare, sat outside in the sunshine for 1/2 hour then started to set up, only to find that the drummer had left a bag at home, with all his stands in....quick phonecall. His wife was there within the hour and we made it on 10min late.....moral of the story, the drummer takes the p*** out of everyone that forgets anything, but they never forgot anything on a gig night.....

off on a tangent maybe..we (dirty weekend) provide the musical interlude between the bingo in a club in Barnsley. We break down and load out and joy of joys there is a mobile chuck waggon in the car park serving kebabs !...Ahaaa..some cholesterol and salmonela ridden solace for the long drive home! "Double donner on nan please m8"..anything on that he asks.." Hot sauce please"..I'm well on my way to the M62 before I realise the guy has squeezed the sauce out of the bottle into a bowl and microwaved it for 2 mins !!!!