ninehertz

1. • mamba
   • Obviously no promoter types on here are like this, but I'm sure many of you have come across promoters like this in your time...
     
     Video a mate made last year
   • [07:47 on 29/04/10]
2. • mike
   • So true alot of that, which is why we play so few gigs, and why bands split up.
   • [18:15 on 29/04/10]
3. • Hopkins
   • it's a shit business
   • [18:22 on 29/04/10]
4. • Jack
   • haha
   • [19:03 on 29/04/10]
5. • slack mammoth
   • From the comments...
     
     "this is obviously a fake, the promoter is telling the truth"
   • [12:42 on 30/04/10]
6. • Marek
   • That's why I started promoting
     [Edited by Marek at 17:37 on 30/04/10]
   • [17:37 on 30/04/10]
7. • slack mammoth
   • Go on then, what's the stupidest promoter everyone's dealt with?
     
     I'd say it was the goon who put us on with Alunah, Spearhead and Scythian in Reading. He didn't turn up until 8:30pm, and the only response to all my calls and texts the week before was that he was bringing the drums. Which meant that the bands couldn't get set up while we waited for him to arrive.
     
     There was water coming down from the ceiling onto the stage, which meant the mic wasn't too fun to be near. He was meant to be handling sound (just the vocals and drums, as the PA was tiny), but when the mics started feeding back, I had to call him over from having a laugh with his mates at the bar to turn the levels down on the desk.
     
     Since we were on first and didn't go on until 9pm, everyone assumed there was a late license. There wasn't. Spearhead got the plug pulled after a couple of songs because the venue was closing. Bar staff were putting chairs on tables as they were playing.
     
     The bloke then ran over to them, applauding and going, "Fucking great set, lads! We'll have to get you back again!"
     
     
   • [14:53 on 01/05/10]
8. • pull-my-plonker
   • slack mammoth says:

     Go on then, what's the stupidest promoter everyone's dealt with?
     
     I'd say it was the goon who put us on with Alunah, Spearhead and Scythian in Reading. He didn't turn up until 8:30pm, and the only response to all my calls and texts the week before was that he was bringing the drums. Which meant that the bands couldn't get set up while we waited for him to arrive.
     
     There was water coming down from the ceiling onto the stage, which meant the mic wasn't too fun to be near. He was meant to be handling sound (just the vocals and drums, as the PA was tiny), but when the mics started feeding back, I had to call him over from having a laugh with his mates at the bar to turn the levels down on the desk.
     
     Since we were on first and didn't go on until 9pm, everyone assumed there was a late license. There wasn't. Spearhead got the plug pulled after a couple of songs because the venue was closing. Bar staff were putting chairs on tables as they were playing.
     
     The bloke then ran over to them, applauding and going, "Fucking great set, lads! We'll have to get you back again!"
     
     
     
     
     Was his name Wayne?! Wayne Kerr?!
   • [00:34 on 02/05/10]
9. • bad admiral
   • jack dickenson - he made me suck him off at loud howls and kicked my arse in. fucking bastard.
     
     
     
     seriously, when i was in i am tetsuo (emo band - a lifetime ago) we kept playing shows for a bird called sharon. once we were in the camden rock cafe (ex canaervon castle) and the power went off. we all sat in a dark pub and weren't able to buy drinks. poo. anyhow, nick oliveri was doing his acoustic tour at the time and walks in off the street randomly to be informed that the power was off and it would cost him a fiver to get in. he laughed and left.
     
     
   • [15:44 on 02/05/10]
10. • Marek
    • Bloody hell
    • [14:33 on 05/05/10]
11. • WickedWesticle
    • we drove about 200 miles to an all dayer that didn't exist a couple of years back. The guy had organised it at this old country manor and even though the owner had told him he wasn't allowed to host it there he thought he'd wing it on the day.
      
      A woman called Angel from the lighting company said it was a shame we couldn't play cos we looked light a handsome couple of guys. I reckon we coulda tag teamed her.
    • [15:20 on 05/05/10]
12. • Tim Holehouse
    • Mine be a gig at a place called road trip... I turned up to find it was a resturante. Not good... then I had some bad news about a close friend. now not in the mood to play. Great!
      The promoter turned up said I was on last, when i was kinda hoping to play and fuck off. He then proceeded to fuck off straight after a shambolic sound check. As i sat through the other acts of david gray blandness I thought about bolting. I really should have too. By the time i finally get on nobody cares their enjoying their meals and drinks. I play and I'm quite loud as some of you know. After two songs the owner literally pulls the plug out the PA. So I think fuck it play the next song straight acoustic with out the PA. He then leaps onto the stage trying to attack me. I push him off an argument ensues and I say its ok I'll leave. I pack up slowly winding him up some more. The as i leave I kick the mic stand over and a table over smashing some glasses then slam the door and it shatters the glass as I get outside the owner and the sound man try to jump me. I have my guitar case in my hand so swing round knocking them both to the floor. Sound man gives up after that goes back in owner comes for me again I lay him out. I then walked calmly to the tube get home and its not till I tell my mrs I realise how weird it is what happened.
      The funny thing is promoter rang me the next day asks what happened. He's since tried to book me again on a few ocassions... I've declined.
    • [08:46 on 14/05/10]
13. • mike
    • Insane, Tim wins.
    • [17:20 on 14/05/10]
14. • Tim Holehouse
    • Yeah was a weird evening. I had a weird hoxton jinx til late. I broke it a few months back and played a couple of awesome shows there.
    • [07:12 on 17/05/10]

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