ninehertz

1. • slack mammoth
   • What's the worst gigs everyone's done?
     
     In Mfkzt, the occasion at the Angel when I was beyond pissed. That was, I think, 4 years ago, and I still feel deep, burning shame when I think about it. I was such a cunt Rob got in the car afterwards and went without me. Tsk.
     
     In Witchsorrow, last year when we played in Reading with Spearhead, Aluna and Scythian. The promoter didn;t turn up with the drums til gone 8pm, meaning everyone assumed there was a late license, which there wasn't. Spearhead got to play a whole 4 songs before the plug got pulled.
     
     There was water coming out of the ceiling onto the stage. I kept getting shocks off the mic. The PA kept feeding back. The stage was the size of a postage stamp, with an angled ceiling on one side and a bannister running around the edge. The drumkit kept edging away from Morrell as well, he had to keep stopping to right the various wrongs with it.
     
     
   • [17:15 on 22/01/09]
2. • Mazz
   • Venue: Winsley Social Club
     Band: The Confused
     Year: 1996
     
     I had a spliff before the gig then got the fear when I hit 'the stage'. My mind when blank and had to make up lyrics for the first three or four songs.
     
     Venue: The Piccadilly Ale House (Bath)
     Band: Cometh the Legacy..of The Legacy
     year: 200?
     
     Turn up and do a sound-check. "Sorry you lads are to loud and heavy you can't play here". It was so bad it was funny.
     
   • [17:20 on 22/01/09]
3. • mike
   • 2007- Drive to Aberdeen for 8 hours (me and Gareth in the back of a van with no windows sleeping), get there on time, eat chilli, watch bands soundcheck, there are 7 bands, gets to 8pm, no band has been on yet... they'll start soon, 8.45, first band on, play lovely set, all the bands are actually good.
     
     10.35, we go on, play one song, and have to stop after in time for the last band to go on, meaning a drive of 8 hours for around 7-9 minutes of actual music played, we did get paid, which we worked out at something like £8 a minute for the time we were on stage, nice.
     
     Beat that, time off work, van rental, 8 hour drive, food, somewhere to stay etc. we did go and get wasted in Dundee though so not all bad!
   • [19:04 on 22/01/09]
4. • Big Si
   • I could have crushed a grape, let me tell you.
   • [20:02 on 22/01/09]
5. • Gareth
   • Big Si says:

     I could have crushed a grape, let me tell you.
     
     
     I thought it was funny.
     
     Last gig at the Red House was our worst.
   • [20:57 on 22/01/09]
6. • Big Si
   • Was that the one where my stuff broke, or the one where my stuff broke?
   • [22:13 on 22/01/09]
7. • mike
   • Yeah one of the most pointless gigs ever, here, play for about 15-20 minutes, wheres the drums? Ah they are in the locked basement, wheres the key? Oh erm, duno....
     
     Broken string, new songs sounding ropey, nobody we knew there, those we knew heckling then realising it was an awful gig.
     
     Yeah, crap.
     
     Even the empty tour dates are more fun than that.
   • [22:14 on 22/01/09]
8. • Podge
   • that one where we gave up part way through at the grapes
   • [08:27 on 23/01/09]
9. • Tim Holehouse
   • Too many to mention one notable one was a Shima gig where we all took loads of acid (not unusal for that band). But instead of playing songs we improvised for 45 minutes... ended with one of the guitar players getting the fear running off stage and hiding under a table for the rest of the night. Friends later told me it sounded like a school band warming up it was so bad.
   • [09:07 on 23/01/09]
10. • bad admiral
    • ages ago, we (school band) played some drum and bass club in hitchin called traxx. no real reason it was shit. it was just fucking crap.
      
      
    • [09:17 on 23/01/09]
11. • Donny
    • Grosvenor with the Deathskulls and some shit crust bands.
      
      We were on first, but someone had forgotten to turn the sound limiter off. Everytime we touched a guitar or Pat hit the snare, the power to the stage cut out. We ended up having to play with the amps on 1.
      
      Then the Deathskulls started to play, the landlord appears and turns the fucking sound limiter off.
      
      Lots of those type of gigs.
    • [10:46 on 23/01/09]
12. • slack mammoth
    • Mfkzt once played at Rob's girlfriend's brother's birthday party in a hall that had a sound limiter. We just got an extension lead and plugged everything into a socket that wasn't attached to the limiter. Rock n roll rebellz
    • [11:00 on 23/01/09]
13. • Willis
    • Venue: The Piccadilly Ale House (Bath)
      Band: Cometh the Legacy..of The Legacy
      year: 200?
      
      Turn up and do a sound-check. "Sorry you lads are to loud and heavy you can't play here". It was so bad it was funny.
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      yes! that was funny. It was ok though, our 'karate expert' van driver would have sorted out any trouble. He put a dent in the side of his own van to demonstrate his violent powers.
    • [11:16 on 23/01/09]
14. • Rob Himself
    • slack mammoth says:

      Mfkzt once played at Rob's girlfriend's brother's birthday party in a hall that had a sound limiter. We just got an extension lead and plugged everything into a socket that wasn't attached to the limiter. Rock n roll rebellz
      
      
      That was hilarious. Andy chatting up an actual child.
      
      I'd concur on the Nottingham front, for obvious reasons although worst of recent memory was the first date of my tour in October - playing to 6 people who were expecting a reggae night, breaking a string and just being quite crap on a stage barely deep enough for us and the PA. Or 9th Dec just gone, headlining to one drunk guy who spent the whole set talking to the girl who played last.
      
      We did loads of shit gigs in Mfkzt, and I've probably done even more on my own. A really good gig where everything works the way it should is a rare thing indeed.
      
      Best gigs ever: Mfkzt/Sunshine Republic in Newcastle, Mfkzt at The Underworld with Eden Maine to 200 crazy underage kids and my last gig at the Redhouse.
      [Edited by Rob Himself at 12:42 on 23/01/09]
    • [12:39 on 23/01/09]
15. • slack mammoth
    • I'd also reckon that the Mfkzt show at Reading uni was a blinder. The guy doing the sound had an enormous PA, but he'd never done a metal band before, and he'd never had a chance to really play with his PA before. It was deafening. He was this nerdy little bloke, absolutely loving how much noise he was helping make, haha.
    • [12:52 on 23/01/09]
16. • Podge
    • Donny says:

      Grosvenor with the Deathskulls and some shit crust bands.
      
      Bumsnogger were not a shit crust band, well maybe we were if thats what the people were expecting, or am i thinking of a different gig that seemed very similar?
    • [12:59 on 23/01/09]
17. • Tim Holehouse
    • Podge wrong gig you played the Angel tavern with us and Skulls (that was just the sound at that place... they power their massive rig with a 100 watt stereo power amp... twats!). The grov was very un Mong friendly. The Ska gig was another forgetable low light and Pat running off to puke half way through a song there another.
    • [13:05 on 23/01/09]
18. • Podge
    • Tim Holehouse says:

      Podge wrong gig
      
      you can see my error was an easy one
    • [13:06 on 23/01/09]
19. • Tim Holehouse
    • Indeed...
      
      Best mfkzt gig... one andy didn't make in the scout hut... ha ha!
    • [13:09 on 23/01/09]
20. • Donny
    • Yeah the grosvenor was cursed for the mong.
      
      heh heh Tim I was cursing your name at the scout hut gig... 'What has Tim done... we're playing a fucking scout hut... there's not even a bar!' Was a fun day in the end though
    • [13:15 on 23/01/09]

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