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Subject: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: mick p r.m s.c Date: 19 Dec 07 - 06:04 PM Just been informed that I have a gig xmas eve. Is this fair. Dont know many carols. My wife and kids wont have a santa. I will not be able to deliver my presents. I will not have to put up with my inlaws who are staying with us for xmas eve. Things are looking good. SILENT NIGHT MICK. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Big Al Whittle Date: 19 Dec 07 - 06:15 PM I used to gig every Christmas. Christmas day - and night! Make the most of it, Mick! Enjoy! I hate Christmas dinner - give me a pizza anytime I hate Christmas television. I used to think of it as my version of The Great Escape. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: PoppaGator Date: 19 Dec 07 - 06:16 PM Is it at a venue where carols will be expected? Or will you be entertaining a bunch of bah-humbug types who'd be glad to listen to anything except Xmas songs? (Perhaps so ~ who else would be out of their homes on Christmas Eve?) I suppose it'll be a "silent night" in terms of your not having to listen to those in-laws, but YOU are not allowed to be silent ~ unless your gig is as a mime! At any rate, I'm happy for you that you can look at this as a positive ("Things are looking good.") Yeah, it's a paycheck, if nothing else, but that's not always the most important thing. Precious few of us would really want to be at our regular paying jobs on such a holiday. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: ClaireBear Date: 19 Dec 07 - 06:32 PM Does being in a church choir count? If so, every Christmas Eve I have three gigs: singing in two choirs -- and being a stage mom for my son who is in a third -- means I attend three services that evening. We have our Christmas Eve dinner in the church hall between services. Don't even ASK when I get around to putting gifts under the tree and filling stockings! C |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Barbara Shaw Date: 19 Dec 07 - 09:44 PM We play every Christmas eve at church at the 5:00 family service, leading a medley of carols and accompanying the children's dance choir. Also play every Christmas day at noon at the soup kitchen. The family events fit in around this and it all makes the holiday memorable and meaningful if exhausting. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:04 PM CANCEL the GIG!!!!
There are several dozen waiting "in the wings" to take your "spot-in-the-limelight"
Sincerely, Obviously, you are not a "WHY-ner"...and it is an imposition on your religion....pass it on....Chaunaka and Christmas do not cross in 2007...many would welcome your "cast off" GILD. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:12 PM Mr. Mick
The labeling of this thread
Imply that this is not a "spiritual" event....but more of an "emotional" reinactment of YOUR Christmas' Past.
Sincerely,
The cyber-elves are waiting in eager anticipation to unravel your angst poppa, mamma, uncle, sister? |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Leadfingers Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:43 PM If you need material , His Worship and the Pig , John Kirkpatrck and Adran May/Chris Leger ALL recorded their Christmas shows . And Tom Lehrer wrote a bloody good Christmas Carol too !! |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Phil Cooper Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:53 PM Our holiday band, the Bittersweet Christmas Band is doing an afternoon Unitarian service on Christmas eve. Never had a regular gig on that day. Since our show represents how mixed a bag the holidays can be, we appeal to folks who like traditional christmas carols and crass songs about the holidays. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Genie Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:22 AM For the first time in about 13 years, I don't have a gig on Christmas eve. (Some years I've had as many as 6.) But I do have one on Christmas day, at 2:00 PM. Usually by mid-afternoon all the presents have been opened, the main Christmas meal has been devoured, and the kinfolk have gone home or scattered to various parts of the host's house to watch TV, do jigsaw puzzles, or just nap. Perfect time to go do some Christmas music -- usually more in the line of actual carols than pre-Christmas-shopping-prep pop like "It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas." As for not having enough material, my problem is the opposite. I know enough Christmas/winter songs to easily fill 4 hours, so I usually have to leave out a few favorites even after paring the set list down to tailor it to my particular audience. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Big Al Whittle Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:56 AM 'If you need material , His Worship and the Pig , John Kirkpatrck and Adran May/Chris Leger ALL recorded their Christmas shows . And Tom Lehrer wrote a bloody good Christmas Carol too !!' a bit late to be learning new material |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Ruth Archer Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:04 AM "Precious few of us would really want to be at our regular paying jobs on such a holiday." At least gigging is doing something you enjoy...spare a thought for the petrol station attendants, supermarket staff, people working in pubs, restaurant staff, etc... I remember when I worked in pubs and restaurants. I worked my share of Christmas eves and Boxing Days, and while the atmosphere was always festive I would have given quite a lot to be at home with my family... As it happens, my new manager is not letting anyone take holiday on Christmas eve this year. Fa la la la la. |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Mo the caller Date: 20 Dec 07 - 07:54 AM My Dad was a hospital cook. He was a bit put out when in a sermon at a service he went to before cycling off to do his shift one sunday the minister said that "some people see Sunday as a chance for earning time and a half". His reply "double time on Christmas Day" |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Fidjit Date: 20 Dec 07 - 01:26 PM HUMBUG! I'm playing golf in the morning. It's our Monday morning "Old Boys" Nothing stops fot that. Chas |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: The Sandman Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:13 PM Yes,im accompanying Santa on my concertina. http://www.dickmiles.com |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Genie Date: 20 Dec 07 - 08:06 PM Well, I now have a gig Christmas Eve (day) -- at 10 AM. Due to a change in activity directors at a retirement community, there was a double booking for this Saturday, so we moved my Sat. gig to 12-24. I actually prefer it this way. Doesn't chop up my Saturday and it leaves the afternoon and evening of 12-24 open to be with friends and family. A couple decades ago I was working in a psychiatric hospital and couldn't get enough time off to make it worthwhile to fly south to be with family, so I volunteered to work a double shift on Christmas (night shift Christmas eve and then the next day). Time and a half followed by double time pay. But I felt good doing it, because nobody had really done anything to "give the patients a Christmas," so I took it upon myself to put up a few decorations and get some snacks for the dining room and get out my guitar and do some Christmas carols with the ones who wanted to celebrate the holiday. Probably better than just being at home stuffing my face. : ) |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Anglo Date: 20 Dec 07 - 11:24 PM Well, I have a gig the 23rd. Which is OK I suppose except I have an 8 hour drive home on Xmas eve. I'd rather be playing! |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: GUEST,Barnacle (at work) Date: 21 Dec 07 - 10:15 AM I have a regular Christmas Eve "gig" at home, have done the same thing for years and jus love it. apart from finishing the ironing (I have to have everything clean, tidy and put away - 'twas the way I was brought up) But then ... go to town to buy fresh flowers (don't need to, but I like the buzz) Ice the cake, call in to work to deliver pressies, (I work at a holiday centre and all my colleagues work over Christmas - I am just on call), Sing along to "Nine Lessons and Carols" on Radio 4 whilst making the mince pies, then prepare the turkey and veg. This year I will miss singing "Away in a Manger", Silent Night" and "Little Donkey" around the fire with the grandchildren (they are not arriving until Boxing Day, this year). It is the best gig of the year and I would not do anything else, even if they paid me a king's ransom! Sue |
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Subject: RE: Anyone got a gig XMAS Eve. From: Mo the caller Date: 22 Dec 07 - 06:22 AM We'll spend the evening in the Shroppie Fly, Audlem at the usual Monday session (not a gig, if there was money available they might pay me to stay away!), New Years Eve it's been moved to the afternoon, as they have a booked band on in the evening. |
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