Frequently
as I am in a band, with a shit and embarrassing name. The other guys won't let me change it :-(

My first forays into performance came at school, where I experienced the delights of backstage crew kicking out the plugs halfway through a song, and leads being left ever so slightly out of the socket so you can't figure out why the hell nothing is coming out of the amp.

More recently though we tend to play in pubs that are frequented by students or old men. Half the time people just stare at you with a look of disapproval. Quite often we will finish a song and there will be literally no reaction*. This will go on throughout a set of an hour and a half or so, and then when the time comes we will play our last song, and the audience will go mental and scream for an encore.

It's nice when people come up to you afterwards and say they enjoyed it, but it'd be a shitload nicer if they gave some indication that they were enjoying it during the act.

I find it fairly baffling.

*I'm assured by others that we're not that shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:28, 3 replies)

Cunt

(Bazongaloid, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:30, closed)

I think that is a balanced and reasoned response.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:32, closed)

I concur
at least I have some stories for this one though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:32, closed)

I wrote that before you put your story up.
In response to the story, the audience is probably wondering why Justin Bieber is playing guitar in a band with a silly name, and why he keep gurning like a mong during his solos.

And finally they are wondering why he has such a ridiculous stick on beard.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:45, closed)

while I can't dispute any of your other comments
I don't gurn any more. I've had it drummed out of me. Now I'm completely expressionless. Unless the drummer gets a bit crazy on the cowbell, which makes me laugh.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:46, closed)