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lol. Troll!

It depends. Ahem.

well this was a funny one anyway!! the gig in question was booked by myself for november. as the band no longer exist the drummer, who plays in another band has agreed to take on the remaining gigs, so no problem there.
what happened here is that the landlady of a certain venue was moving to another venue and was trying to transfer the gigs from the old to the new.

are you still with me???

well personally i say whoever books the gig makes sure the venue isnt let down one way or another ;)

"well personally i say whoever books the gig makes sure the venue isnt let down one way or another ;)"

Well put. ;o)

I'd say the gig would still stand for the band it was booked for, unless obviously the band split all together. It would be pretty shitty for the leaving member to cancel any gigs they had booked, the most sensible thing to do would be to pass the contact details to the rest of the band so that they can confirm with the venue the gig is still going ahead.

If the leaving member joined another band and wanted to use those gigs for his/her new band, now that wouldn't be fair.

When we had two guitarists leave, two months apart, both gave notices and we never had a problem fulfilling our gigs. We still get on great together but we did say from the start that notices had to be given unless it was something very personal. We are still a guitarist down now but it seems to work better wiyh the four of us.

. . continued, what's holding us back with another guitarist or even a keyboard player is the thought of re-learning all the songs again and the new member leaves after a short while. I book all the gigs and if I was leaving I would carry on until the new drummer was up to speed, least you can do really, even if i was joining another band and would discuss what to do with the remaining gigs !

what about when a band member decides to leaves a band and phones the venue, behind the other members' backs, to cancel the gig!! what a spiteful c***!!!

surely the gig should stand for the band it was originally booked for.

when a venue takes a booking they book a band not a band member.

I agree on that, just as long as the gig is fulfilled, because if the pub was let down at the last minute, they would think twice about booking either band again

Happened to me. I booked a load of Gigs for a band i was in and when I left they DID ask "What do you want to do with the Gigs you booked".
Told them they were their's. You could hardly take a different band along anyway.
What really pissed me off though was some of the venues ringing me up chasing Posters or the usual confirmation phone call a week before the event.
Sometimes doing the decent thing can rebound on you.

The gig stands for the booked band. Fotunately this has never happen to me yet. I was in control of the bands diary with my last band. I would always double-check with the venue in question to make sure no dirty tricks were ocurring.

Scott got Steelfield a booking, Scott left Steelfield, Scott handing me all contact details etc, Steelfield did gig without Scott, muchos kudos to Scott!!!!!

Posted by Mike Collinge - 22/07/2009, 17:39 (GMT)
what about when a band member decides to leaves a band and phones the venue, behind the other members' backs, to cancel the gig!! what a spiteful c***!!!
..................and only recently lol

Oh eck!

This blog could have been written about us?
Our new line up came at a price!
All our gigs were cancelled by an "outgoing"
We've managed to get 20 of the gigs back but quite a lot had already been rebooked with other bands before we cottoned on what was going on?
The irony of it is, the person doing the cancelling has cut his own throat to spite his face as all those venues are extremely pissed about it and have vowed not to deal with him again?
So I've gone from being annoid about it to feeling sorry for him?
It must be hurtful to be ousted out of a band for whatever reason but revenge matters must be carefully thought out or you could shoot yourself in the foot?