My first paid gig was with the surf instrumental band I played in at college. We'd played at a few parties and open mics with varying degrees of success, this time we were booked to play the student's union bar during RAG week. The bar was packed with all our friends, and others, everyone had had a few drinks and danced like loons. We played everything we knew and when we ran out of tunes, we played them all again. They gave us a couple of crates of beer and we got paid £10 each. I spent mine on a pair of sunglasses and a packet of cigarettes.