Only two people employed behind the bar (for packed gigs, read 'one person')
― Kim Tortoise, Monday, 9 June 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)
you will see someone who you kinda know but do not know there name so you will have to do the embaressed eye catching nod.
― james (james), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― james (james), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)
(as an audience member...)You will smell marijuana.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Monday, 9 June 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim Tortoise, Monday, 9 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)
None of these will be about anything that you are remeotely likely to be interested in but weren't previously aware of.
Everyone in the audience will try to leave at exactly the same time - although approximately 50% will be anxious and pushing to get out quickly and urgently whilst the other 50% will be content to dawdle aimlessly (stopping to do up their shoe-laces / compose and send text messages / read the posters on the wall for events which took place 3 months ago) thus creating a total log jam.
The Management of the venue, in clear defiance of all logic and reason, will chose this moment to close one or more doors or erect barriers otherwise restrict and prevent people from leaving.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)
Darned right - us fat old blokes with beards operate a rota system to ensure that at least one of us is in attendance nodding their head at all gigs.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)
The opening act will suck.
If it's a Tuesday, the band will take the stage at 12:45.
The band will play a 25-minute version of the slowest song anyone's ever heard.
Some dick in a retro-ironic T-shirt will request Freebird.
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)
The crowd will shout for an encore. The band will come on for an encore and everyone will pretend it is spontaneous and not a stupid-ass farce ritual.
― Ferg (Ferg), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)
a) futzb) mumblec) open beer ostentatiouslyd) tunee) etc
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)
Also guaranteed: sheer unadultered boredom as band sets up gear/band breaks down gear.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Some dick in a retro-ironic T-shirt will request Freebird. and if the lead singer of the band is in a retro-ironic t-shirt, he will oblige retro-ironic audience asshole by, indeed, playing the world's worst rendition of "Freebird" imaginable.
see also me and "SLAYER!!!!!!" @ Dianogah, Spring 2002. :/
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)
you finally notice an X on the hand of the girl you've been spying all nite and realize you're a creep!
― Aaron A., Monday, 9 June 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)
You hope your face is spared as your holding both beers in both hands because a friend is either a.) making a move b.) flailing c.) gone to the head or d.) dissapeared outside to admire greenery.
― earlnash, Monday, 9 June 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― kephm, Monday, 9 June 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
If it's any consolation, I'm almost six-three and someone taller than me almost always comes and stands right in front of me, too.
― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)
If you are in New Orleans: someone in the band would like to introduce you to their buddy, "Philip...Philip the Bucket!"(fillupthebucket DO YOU SEE?!?!?!)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― darren (darren), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)
-a whole gaggle of annoying squealy girls will squeeze in front of you as if they are trying to force their way towards the stage and then STOP, forcing you to hold the uncomfortable position you assumed solely in order to let them through for the rest of the set
-Some fuckwit (usually a skinny model girl type) will light a cigarette and then hold it daintily at a right angle away from her hair so that the smoke doesn't go in her face, but goes in YOURS
At this point you wonder why you still go to gigs at all, and wish you'd stayed home listening to the CD instead. Sigh.
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Yeah, I hate it when that happens to me too.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Or indeed *any* show at the Barfly.
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)
for the goods to rarely live up to the hype
*cough, cough, Jet, cough, cough*
― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)
Mind you, he's spoiled, cause in the art world blah blah blah, there's *always* free wine and sometimes even food at the openings, and yadda yadda when he played the Hayward Gallery they brought in a job lot of sub-bass woofers so he could get just the appropriate amount of HUMMMM for his electric mains resonance, etc. etc. and they're so much nicer to punters at art galleries, why would *anyone* want to go to a rock show any more is beyond him.
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Sigh.
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)
(as a performer...)We rip-roar through our set. We get done and tear down. I will attempt to talk to a girl. She will snub me.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)
Shows I go to in Austin now:There will always be two people with faces illuminated by camcorder screens as they record it all.
― rw, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Band will end the set by errupting into feedback squall, then prop their guitars up against their amps, still squealing feedback, and walk offstage like this is the most original thing any band has ever done ever.
Band will then look like knobs when they have to walk back ONTO the stage to turn their amps off. They'll look like even bigger knobs if the soundman or the next band have to do it FOR them.
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)
(Might be me)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)
Ask Mr. Noodles! He will back me up!
― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Though I don't understand why we didn't get a Cancon star. I feel chizzed.
― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)