Top 5 Worst Gigs: No 3

This wasn’t too long ago actually.

It was a gig I deped for Ash with his mate Paul (See Previous Blog Better to Say Nothing Than to Lie). At a showcase for a soul band that hired us as a horn section.

Now in theory the gig seemed great. Play for 9 min for a good fee be home for 8ish.

Paul picked me up at 3:30 and we had a play through the three charts we were playing. That was fine. Then we went to Nottingham for this gig.

It turns out that we were the last band to play of the night and we didn’t play until about 1am!!!

That’s bad enough.

However because the venue was in the middle of no where we were stuck at this showcase. After 15 acts of magicians, vocal tributes like “Malt Loaf” and World War 2 duets we were up to play.(You can imagine the type of acts – Just picture X Factor scraping the barrel and you’ll get the most talented act of the evening!!)

I got back ironically at 3:30 in the morning making it a nice round 11 hours and 51 minutes of driving and waiting with 9 minutes of actual playing.

And the final slap in the face was the only food I could get was a sandwich (not a magical sandwich, just a normal 2 slices of bread job) that cost £7.00.

Fun!!