Being the black sheep playing a show

gunslinger_burrito · Post by **gunslinger_burrito** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:06 am

So I've got a show booked in a couple-few weeks. It's a free show for the First Friday artwalk, so I'm generally stoked. However, I told the guy in my original email that I wanted to play "kind of pretty ambient music," meaning, to me, sort of mellow, shoegazey, doom-gazey stuff. Like, my best "Nadja-meets-Mogwai" impersonation. Then the dude actually organizing the show gets a hold of me and links me to the other acts (including he and his wife) who are playing. They range from mellow, semi-Portisheadish downtempo stuff to straight up dancey electronica type stuff (I have no idea how to label this music; I don't listen to it). I'm pretty sure none of the other bands are going to even have an electric guitar.

Do I try and be a bit more mellow, or do I say fuck it and play whatever the hell I want? I'll be playing first, so I don't know if I'll chase away everyone else's audience, or if I'll want to

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:11 am

gunslinger_burrito wrote:Do I try and be a bit more mellow, or do I say fuck it and play whatever the hell I want? I'll be playing first, so I don't know if I'll chase away everyone else's audience, or if I'll want to

Ambient is Ambient and if you're fist you get to set the mood so do what you do and then cash in the drink tickets and lounge... I think your stuff will work and it's for an "Art" event so anything goes, might win over some new fans of the Dark Side...

Are you gonna take some of your Art to sell cause that would totally win them over... If I were you I'd just set up some of my pieces in front of my amps and sell it as merch...

Deltaphoenix · Post by **Deltaphoenix** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:12 am

I would do what I do normally.

The only time that I have changed/edited anything for a certain show while playing out was for a show at a county Fair (lol). We took a few cuss words out of a few songs because kids were around.

space6oy · Post by **space6oy** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:13 am

i'd say fuck it. especially braving it as the opening act. do what you want. sometimes shows need to have acts whose music fits together, sometimes it's great to make those shows have multiple different acts that don't match up at all.

link to the electronic stuff? i'm actually into a lot of that on top of weird indie acts & some metal...

also +1 on taking some art if you can. i just finally framed one of yours last night!

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:19 am

Once I did a noise set in a coffee house followed by an acoustic punk band. So...

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:25 am

skullservant wrote:acoustic punk...

Does not Compute...

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:26 am

hahaha I think its called Folk Punk? dont look it up

gunslinger_burrito · Post by **gunslinger_burrito** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:28 am

space6oy wrote:i'd say fuck it. especially braving it as the opening act. do what you want. sometimes shows need to have acts whose music fits together, sometimes it's great to make those shows have multiple different acts that don't match up at all.

link to the electronic stuff? i'm actually into a lot of that on top of weird indie acts & some metal...

also +1 on taking some art if you can. i just finally framed one of yours last night!

I think I'll just play however I feel that day. So who knows.

Here's some fB links. Plume Varia is the act by the dude I talked with. He seemed cool enough through online interaction, sooooo

https://www.facebook.com/FevrierMusic
https://www.facebook.com/PHONOReason
https://www.facebook.com/TheCircusHouse
https://www.facebook.com/plumevaria

skullservant wrote:hahaha I think its called Folk Punk? dont look it up

MEC · Post by **MEC** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:29 am

space6oy wrote:i'd say fuck it.

sonidero wrote:...it's for an "Art" event so anything goes...

space6oy · Post by **space6oy** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:30 am

sonidero wrote:
skullservant wrote:acoustic punk...
Does not Compute...

Green Day.

gunslinger_burrito · Post by **gunslinger_burrito** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:34 am

Thanks for reaffirming my gut intuition, fellas.

foomanfat · Post by **foomanfat** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:35 am

space6oy wrote:
sonidero wrote:
skullservant wrote:acoustic punk...
Does not Compute...
Green Day.

Nope. Try Andrew Jackson Jihad, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, early Against Me! or Defiance, Ohio.

space6oy · Post by **space6oy** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:36 am

oh yup re: green day. that time of your life atrocity. UGH. some punk band has to have done an unplugged session too, if MTV still exists & plays music videos...

osbornkt · Post by **osbornkt** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:39 am

Yeah. Just go in with your thing and if necessary. They wanted you to play, so give them your thing. If people dig it, then awesome! If not, move on to the next gig.
Have fun, dude!

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:45 am

space6oy wrote:
sonidero wrote:
skullservant wrote:acoustic punk...
Does not Compute...
Green Day.

I was thinking more along the lines of old Against Me!

oops, didn't see foomans post.

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