Technicolour Yawn
I was in a band called Technicolour Yawn.
I'm pretty sure we got gigs from landlords who wanted their pubs emptied - or at least we should have.
We had a gig booked in a hall to commemorate the Hilsborough disaster a year after it happened (so 91, 92?). The hall was packed, at least until our third song. I'm surprised they stayed that long to be honest. We played some Whitesnake cover (very badly) if I remember and that pretty much finished them off. Emptied in less than 10 minutes.
A few weeks later there was a huge bike show, we got booked by a large pub that had been let down by a band at the last minute.
Of course, we thought "Bikers eh? We'll need to rock it up a little."
Que "Sultans of Swing" with the gain turned to 11 and a pub with aproximately 250 bikers in it, being reduced to about 4 within 3 minutes. At the end of the song, some grebo walked past muttering "crap, just crap".
He was quite right though.
Of course, the landlord refused to pay us and I was too embarrassed to do anything about it. The bass player stayed and argued for hours until he was paid...but that says it all I think.
(dchurch bah, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 16:04, Reply)