This wasn\u2019t too long ago actually.<\/p>\n
It was a gig I deped for Ash with his mate Paul (See Previous Blog Better to Say Nothing Than to Lie<\/font>). At a showcase for a soul band that hired us as a horn section.<\/p>\n Now in theory the gig seemed great. Play for 9 min for a good fee be home for 8ish.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It turns out that we were the last band to play of the night and we didn\u2019t play until about 1am!!!<\/p>\n That\u2019s bad enough.<\/p>\n 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\u2019ll get the most talented act of the evening!!)<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u00a37.00.<\/p>\n Fun!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This wasn\u2019t 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5],"tags":[116,115,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}