An idea suggested by a pupil in school was to put on a tsunami fund raiser gig. I took it by the horns and dominated my little town.
We had 2 prominent bands, one signed at that play, while neither did a top notch set, we were labelled the best band there. Someone who i'm not too close to came in to hear out last 3 songs and said to me the next day "you guys should've headlined!".
The show turned out to be a huge success. As the day went on Saturday, budget subjects (PA cost was reduced, backline we got for less than half price) were being dropped or lowered. It was amazing.
On the night, the 4 bands PACKED the club at one point, we had 200 people. Doesn't sound much, but for one band whove done 2 gigs, our band who arent old enough to gig ;p, and the 2 "main bands" sharing the fanbase, that was exellent.
We managed to raise £1050, minus 350 for running costs, bang bang, £700 for charity.
Several factors made this night rock for me. The owner of the club has basically "hired" me to do this as a monthly event! I saw so many old friends and they all loved us too! The local newspaper absoulutly ditche dus to make a cover story on another christian band that were playing that night. HAH! No competition, at all, as long as the heart is there for this cause i dont care who had the biggest event! But we owned the newspaper.
A buddy in the signed band said to me
There were many funny odds and sods during the night, one being where me and one of the guitarists from another band started pitting to a crap song for a laugh, and nearly got thrown out. haha!"Haigie, man, that was ★■◆●ing amazing. Everything ran so smoothly, Podboy [label] can't even pull off shows like that"
Being labelled "a lead guitarist who plays bass!"
I feel great, so I felt like sharing. If anyone is interested, you can check out the review the guy from daedalian and I wrote on our site:
www.theripoffs.co.uk
rock on.
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