My terrible gig - send flowers and sympathy

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It was at a goth club, so Sisters of Mercy, NIN, Nitzer Ebb, some techno and electro etc right? Wrong. It was Ravey Davey Gravy all night long: tracks like Here's Johnny, Voodoo People, and a million other snare rolling classics from 1992-3. Did the cute goths like our lo-fi electro rock? No they did not. The sound was terrible. We were glad to get off and they were glad to see the back of us.

Then someone stole our mic, which we had borrowed. Not sure how much it costs - at least Aust $250, maybe twice as much or more. I'll ask. I have the money, we were saving it for a holiday.

Great night. Oh yeah, and they also stole R's clothes and shoes which werein the same bag as the mic. The shoes are orthopaedic and cost Aus $300, so she'll be hobbling until she can get some new ones. Also the jeans are pretty much the only ones she's got. So, yeah, hooray.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone who doesn't want to party to Sisters of Mercy has some serious issues to work out.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry dude...sounds bad...dirty goths! (except ned, he's a nice goth)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I like goths though, I didn't mean to be mean about goths. Trayce is a goth too! But what kind of goth listens exclusively to retro rave? I know, I know. A graver. A gothic raver.

There was at least a Sisters remix, with a great big donk of a kick drum under it.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's been my experience that when you play a gig at an unfamiliar venue, before loading in you should star a fight with one of the local toughs and send him home swallowing his own teeth. This might cut down on theft. Dirty fighting is fair, if you gotta hit him in the face with the weighted butt of a mic stand, that's what ou've gotta do. Do it.

Then, right before you start your set, make sure to act enraged about something, get the forehead veins bulging, and smash something while screaming an obscenety. The audience might be to worried to dance, but they won't fuck with you. The Factor 8 2000 tour video is proof enough of that, contact Mike Siciliano (I should, but don't have his contact info). He'll show you how to part a crowd of mohawks like the Red Sea just by acting like an escaped inmate.

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The tears have not come yet, though I sense they are there. I think they need to break through an icy layer of weary indifference.

Helltime, have you seen footage of Fear goading the audience in the punk rockumentary 'The Decline of Western Civilisation'? Unforgettable.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

One gig we played (which I knew would probably be a pretty indifferent crowd) I had a friend of mine that was a German major in college translate all the normal, cliche rock banter like "It's great to be back in Minnapolis" "Man, you guys are a great crowd", etc...into German. I would read it off a sheet of paper between songs. Stuff like that can make it more fun.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

FEAR? Decline?

Man, I wish I could get a copy of that for less that $100 offa Amazon. Mike and me and Fank would watch that before going to gigs. I've often copped FEAR lines like:

"Alright, I wanna see some fuckin movement up here, this ain't no fuckin Country Club"

and

"You at the bar, c'mon up here, stop sucking that over-priced shit.."

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"we're so fuckin' happy to be here. We love San Francisco. No really. Have a dollar!*High pitched voice* Hi! I'm from San Francisco! *Pulls 'hit me' face*

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And don't forget:

"And foh uzzah puh-pozzez"

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

They should've been called Fearless.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm paranoid about my gear to a fault.. i normally stow it somewhere where anyone going near it better have a damn good reason (people tend to freak out when you ask them what the hell they're doing, unless it's the sound guy)..

but getting stuff nicked really sucks, even if it wasn't something big like a sequencer or whatnot. what sort of mic was it?

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Saturday, 22 May 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

But what kind of goth listens exclusively to retro rave

Sydney goths. I shit ye not. The sydneygothic LJ community is loaded with ads for techno and disco nites. I dont think theres any genuine oldschool goths left up there, or at least the few I know who are, are in hiding, with their head in their hands saying "wooeeeee".

Sorry the gig went so badly Col! :(

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 22 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Most unfun! :-( That ain't good to hear.

sorry dude...sounds bad...dirty goths! (except ned, he's a nice goth)

One tries.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 May 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

o col :-(

do you need me to bust some heads?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 22 May 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You see and learn Mole. To play a gig just for money with dressing up clowns is a recipe of foolishness i thought you had superceded.

remember helsinki and the companionable excess of true honesty we shared? it is no surprise the true dark is ridiculed by those who wish to remain shallow and unemcumbered by committment.

keith warslut has been on my telephone too lately comlaining. the modern invasion posse have your back, the pretenders must fall.

― Sami Jyerkesohn, Saturday, 22 May 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Mole, perhaps you learn from this occasion. Do not be so disheartened that only a mic was stolen. It may easily have been part of your dismembered body.

Remember, Sami, the vengeance that was wreaked upon Klawhammer after their humiliation in Olso? Evidently they had corpse paint on their faces but not in their hearts. No doubt Ezthoroth received his 'just desserts' that night when part of his brain became part of our lunch. He tasted of treachery, I am thinking.

― Janne Karlsson, Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

News flash - the mic that we need to replace was a cheap one, only $60. So that's something to be glad about at least.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Rachael: 'You're getting too into this Janne Karlsson character, Colin. It's starting to bother me'.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Klawhammer are but painted fools Janne, true. However i am recieving favours from Hilda of the most sublime trueness so i must be circumspect for now. Hi Hi!

Is Mole returning soon? I hear Sara still has portions of Ezthoroth frozen for appropriate occasions.

The cheaper the mic the truer the sentiment.

― Sami Jyerkesohn, Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No doubt my friend in darkness. I have seen to it that the new Dominaktor album is recorded entirely though a Tandy mic. And still, some say it is too clean.

― Janne Karlsson (colin s barrow), Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

They are running out of churches in Norway, hi hi! And so, I have burned Vadmar's new rabbit hutch. Everyone in the inner circle talks of it. Death to false metal!

― Janne Karlsson, Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the tandy mic is good true true but i cannot be stressed too highly in suggesting that austrailian equipment is best left to dick snith.

i have recently been in conversion with Vadmar and he has no idea! he is on the outer here and will soon be laughing on the other side of his grim countenence in a sad death grimace.

we have him in the basement!

― Sami Jyerkesohn, Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Be sure to give him one from me.

― Janne Karlsson, Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned's a goth? Really? <wonders who else here is a goth without me thinking of them as such>

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 22 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://userpic.livejournal.com/12943444/2049535

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 May 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned's a goth? Really?

http://kuci.org/~nraggett/NedAlan.jpg

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 22 May 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.aahsstudents.homestead.com/files/Crosby_Marie.jpg

― doomie crosby, Saturday, 22 May 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That's when I was fronting Rhea's Obsession.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to play a combo of shoegaze, neo folk, ethereal, prog rock, kraut, post-rock, black/doom metal (and sometimes even klezmer, country, funk, etc. when the mood was right) at a club catering to goths. It didn't last long, but what a ride. I still remember a girl telling me to play "something good instead" during an In the Woods track. But of course they expected EBM, old post-punk or industrial, so I was sorta being an obnoxious prick. But that's what I do. Ah, fun times.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 22 May 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like you were ahead of your time. 'Play something good' - I've had that one too.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

PLAY SOMETHING GOOD

the tales i could tell.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ahahahaha, I know which band he's talking about.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i was talking about my djing col. no one expected wkosa to play anything good.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

btw do you remember the film clip for these times? i made that. sort of. before they cut out the images of the band having fun on a rollercoaster. call me exec prod.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

They were great mully, truly great. I refuse to confuse their dodgy musicianship with their innate songwriting genius.

Did you do that clip? I had no idea. I thought it was all mandy. You were never given due credit mate.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

mandy, me and kim R at metro. me coordinating i guess (cos i had the, ah, contacts)

like mandy had a clue...

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahaha, I had no idea. No idea at all.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

what, colin didn't play judas priest or gary numan? AT A GOTH CLUB?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

o
are you a friend of mandys? i liked her a lot.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

next FAP i will wax rhapsodic about the genius of gav and miriam. fucking genius.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

what, colin didn't play judas priest or gary numan? AT A GOTH CLUB?!?
-- Eisbär

Haha, Eisbar has my measure.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 23 May 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew and liked her mully but only as an acquaintance.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 23 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, well.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

barry's in love with alison who's in lov with johnno who's in love with leona who's in love with noam who's not in love at all.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 23 May 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"They are running out of churches in Norway"

varg, is that you?

heheee. gots ta love the black metal!!!

there are no more goths left in the US, it seems. just kids who think they may someday reach such lofty heights...
or actually think that they started it.
so angrah!1!111! they is.

― eedd, Sunday, 23 May 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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