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Thread #62253 Message #1007102
Posted By: paulo
23-Aug-03 - 04:11 PM
Thread Name: good music/wrong audience experiences?
Subject: RE: good music/wrong audience experiences?
The thing is I still like the idea of doing sessions/sing-a-rounds in pub bars. It takes the music to a different audience.
Having said that, I do see the difficulties.
A story: I went to the opening of an Irsih bar once were the "turn" was Tom Napper & Tony Wilson (two excellent musicians/singers from the northeast of England).
The audience was mainly drinkers.
The audience kept asking for requests - useually Pogues songs. (By the way I like the Pogues)
Tom kept giving these people slips of paper and telling them to write their requests down and they would go into a hat. Every so often he would pull out a peice of paper an announce the next song.
Needless to say they didn't change one song on the set - but everyone was happy.
Paulo