On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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I'm no musician butA few years ago at a local music festival a drunk friend and I decided it would be fun to jump the security barrier and get on stage. Being a couple of years older and a bit bigger than most of the band members we relieved two of the musicians of their backstage passes while pretending to be security; then proceeded to go from stage to stage introducing all the acts as we went, until we got to the heavy metal stage. I have vague memories of a Bruce Dickinson type "Scream for me Essex" thing going on and waking up the next day with a splitting headache. Best bit was hearing one of the organisers a few months later in the pub say that the whole festival had been crap and the best bit was the two drunks who did the acapella heavy metal rap!
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Lord Gnome, Mon 5 Dec 2005, 18:39,
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