The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32753   Message #596781
Posted By: bill\sables
20-Nov-01 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your funniest gig anecdote
Subject: RE: BS: Your funniest gig anecdote
I played with a band in the early eighties with a singer who thought he was God,s gift to woman. One night in Hull Irish club he decided to make the great entry and got the MC to announce us while the curtains were shut, then we would start to play and as the curtains opened he would make his entry. Well it sounded OK so we started playing and the curtains opened taking with them the two PA speakers. His great entry consisted of him running from side to side trying to catch them.
Another night at the same club the MC, who was a bit of a pillock, and had the annoying habit of singing "The Party's Over" after we had finished with an encore, so we decided to fix him for sure. As the last tune I started to play the Irish National Anthem (The Soldiers Song) and all the audience stood to attention and sang along. Now anyone who plays to Irish audiences knows you never do anything after their anthem, but the MC didn't. As usual he started to sing "The Party's Over" as five or six big Irishmen marched to the front of the stage and carried him shoulder high and deposited him outside the door.