Shit Gig
A band I was in got asked to play the Warwick Uni Law Ball a few years back at the Birmingham Hilton. We were on the bill with, amongst others, Jamelia and the Big Brovas. This was going to be awesome! This was going to launch our careers as rock gods! We nearly burst with excitement as we rehearsed, wrote a new song and arranged our elaborate stage costumes.

When we got to the venue, a few new facts were made clear to us:

* We were not actually on the same stage as Jamelia of the Big Brovas
* We were not supporting them, we were in fact on *after* the main draw of the evening
* at 2am
* We were not to leave the green room in the meantime, from 4pm to 2am, because we looked "too scruffy"
* They had forgotten to order the musicians any food (we ended up ordering pizza delivery, at the Birmingham fucking Hilton, ffs)
* 2 of our 3-man brass section decided not to turn up
* The third got so drunk he couldn't stand.
* The "all travel expenses paid" aspect of the gig involved a bus from Warwick uni to the Hotel. Protests that we had all yomped up from London were met with a shrug.

So we played at 2am, tired, drunk and angry, having been staring at the walls for 10 fucking hours, in front of about 10 people after most of the audience had gone home. We sucked.

Warwick University Law Society, you are a bunch of lying cunts.
(Axeman Jim, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 15:53, 1 reply)

They're not liars...
they're lawyers! Leave it up to them to them to creatively modify the truth...
(ttdi wishes he had come up with a better sig before, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 4:49, closed)