Guest Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 All this talk of being "in all the school productions" has made me wonder if my (secondary) school was weird for not having any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted December 4, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2017 7 minutes ago, Uncle Zeb said: All this talk of being "in all the school productions" has made me wonder if my (secondary) school was weird for not having any. Are you sure you went to a school Zeb? Yes itās weird. My school was in the middle of a rough as fuck area, the āhardest peopleā were all on the footy team even though they werenāt good at football, we had crisps for dinner, and the maths teacherĀ had a microwave and fridge in her classroom so she could warm up her sausage rolls without having to stand up....Ā even that school had shows/productions. (all true) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 34 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said: Are you sure you went to a school Zeb? Technically neither exists anymore, so I can't be certain.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Quite a bit in school as I loved drama and to be honest, being the centre of attention at 15, so was Dandy Dan in Bugsy Malone and Kenickie in Grease. Also fancied myself as a bit of an emcee when I was younger (MC Baconbits if you must know. Our crew was called the R.A.F, which stood for Rhyming Arts Foundation and now I feel sick), so I did a fair bit of open mic and battling at places like Breaking Bread, Kung Fu, The Social, and never once got nervous. I think I would rather skydive now. But the absolute best was performing street theatre in Barcelona in year 10. All I remember was a load of confused looking German tourists staring at us as we bellowed our way through, I want to say Agamemnon (all I remember are the words "We were young, we were brothers, Agamemnon), in the middle of those beautiful botanic gardens in the city centre. Since then, I have done stand up once which I honestly can't remember a whole lot about, just that it was the most scared I've ever been in my life, and given presentations/speeches in front of large groups of people (50-250ish) which never really phased me to be honest. Although I have terrible anxiety, this type of thing has never particularly bothered me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallicks Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I was in a cover band for a while, but I ended up hating it for a few reasons; one, because none of them apart from the guitarist were bothered about learning the songs, so every week they had to go over the key change to "livin on a prayer" about 5000 times and even then it was shit. Two, they recruitedĀ female singer to increase the range of songs a bit (as the main male singer, I had no problem with it), unfortunately her singing was pants, she could not harmonise so ended up singing the melody along with me, except out of tune and making me sound shit, and she couldn't (or wouldn't) remember the lyrics so had to take a music stand on stage. Fucking pony.Ā Complained to my fiancĆ© for months about how much I hated it but couldn't bring myself to quit. Thankfully we decided to emigrate so I was able to quit with a "sorry guys but we're moving" instead of flouncing off with a massive tantrum like the true diva I am.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members theironshake Posted December 4, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2017 I've been a professional singer for 3 years and semi pro for 15 years prior to that. I still love performing I still take a nervous piss before I go on stage. Performing is a bug.but to be honest if I couldn't sing I'd be stuck in a low level job making minimum wage. Whatever you do on stage enjoy it. I've had some nightmare gigs and some where I come off stage walking on air. I'm starting a Rockabilly band at the moment and I'm shitting myself as I'm playing guitar on stage for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted December 4, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2017 4 hours ago, SuperBacon said: When I was younger (MC Baconbits if you must know.Ā Thatās all I needed to know. Marvellous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted December 4, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2017 First job when I left school was working for a little theatre company doing shows for kids. Only 5 of us in the show that was a bit like a pantomime really but with quite a lot of stage magic as the guy who ran it was a proper old school magician.Ā Ā We filled some big theatres with our shows, most on a single day was Wolverhampton Civic Hall. 3 shows in the day at 10am, 2pm, 6pm all sold out 1200 each house.Ā Ā The worst was some hall in Edgware where we did 2 shows and the first one had 4 people and the second had 7. They hadn't done the advertising they promised and we lost quite a lot of money. Ā On the whole though it was great fun. Did it for 4 and a half years until I basically went mental with all the travelling and been with the same people in a van all the time, sometimes for weeks at a time.Ā Ā Did some ring announcing for shitehawk wrestling promoters for a while but while I was decent at it the visual was wrong. You can't have an MC who is twice the size of most of the wrestlers.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon-Carr_92 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Did a World War II themed school play called We're In The Army Now in Year 5 or 6 which a classĀ did a few years before, so they recycled it for classes doing World War II and generally so they could do one. I was an evacuee in the first part and Private Jones in the second as in supposedlyĀ the one fromĀ Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt Major which I had to do with everyone else doing backup which I dreaded. Probably where I realisedĀ I find the idea of going on stage tooĀ nerve racking for me. It involved various WWII songs. It also had Quartermaster's Stores, Sing As We Go, We'll Meet Again.Ā Don't remember what else.Ā Can't sing well anyway, but it did OK at the time. Only had 3 or 4 lines apart from that.Ā I lovedĀ the start of the second part where we were the soldiers as we did this drill/marching routine when we came on to In The Army Now by Status Quo. The uniforms we had were really good and the caretaker actually made these cool wooden rifles as part of the costume. The local paper did a bit about it, but I wasn't chosen to do the photo. They had a couple of other kids as the soldiers and the teaching assistant who was in it as the evacuee's guardian. I guess Nativities count as well. IĀ guess that's a Thread someone might do unless that's already been done. No idea. Don't venture here much. I was an angel in preschool. Did 2 in school. Was a shepherd in one and the other I was a King. My Dad actually made my crown for it. I found my photo of me in the costume the other week funnily enough. It was a really nice job he did. Might even still have it. Overall, I guess acting wasn't my forte as didn't enjoy drama much and started liking it before we no longer did it. I guess at the least, I can say I've done the school play front. I guess if things worked out, I'd consider giving it another go with some group. It's just about finding the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I was a professional musician for about 7 years. Ā Best experience was playing in front of a festival crowd and seeing about 5,000 people dancing away. Worst experience was playing a private party in London where there other entertainment was a transvestite Kylie impersonator. Ā We were sharing a green room with her which was one of the hotel rooms in the venue (the Hempel in London). Ā So that was where we got changed, left our kit etc. She did her act first, then disappeared upstairs whilst we did our set. Ā A couple of hours later we finished, and went back to the room to get changed before the long drive home. Ā I open the door to see Kylie kneeling up on the bed in her underwear, ballsack hanging out, whilst her boyfriend films her. Ā Turns out they also had a slot on one of those porn channels (I forget the name). Ā So in the background of that particular video you'd have seen my and the rest of my band surreptitiously grabbing our clothing etc whilst trying to look like we weren't noticing the porno going on. and then scarpering as quick as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 38 minutes ago, Loki said: Best experience was playing in front of a festival crowd and seeing about 5,000 people dancing away. Sound like a small festival if you could see the main stage crowd from where you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted December 6, 2017 Moderators Share Posted December 6, 2017 Sang and played bass for years, acted, did Stand up, Wrestling MC and Manager, keynote speeches, business pitches, and many many more. The only thing I've not done in front of a crowd (yet) is ya mam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Duke Posted December 6, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2017 I'm a preacher (not by profession, on the side) so I do stuff in front of a crowd through that. Still fairly new at it so only done small stuff atm, nothing bigger than 100, though I'm preaching at church on Christmas Eve which will be 250-300 hopefully.Ā Ā Nothing anywhere near the scale of some here though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted December 6, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2017 Always knew there were a few musicians knocking about here, but didnāt know there were quite so many pros! Iāve been in bands of some kind or another since I was about 13, primarily as a vocalist. Mostly a hobby, gigging in pubs for a little bit of cash. Just getting started with a new outfit, playing rhythm ānā blues covers - had our first gig a couple of weeks back & the calendar is starting to fill up with other bookings now, which is nice. There was a period where I, a couple of the lads in the aforementioned new band (our first project together since theĀ one Iām going to talk about,Ā actually) and a couple of other guys dabbled in the function band market to try to earn a bit of cash. We were all good musicians, but horribly under-rehearsed and tried to get by topping & tailing a few numbers and calling the rest on the fly. We only really did one big money function, but it resulted in the following, which was hideous to stand through at the time but has turned into one of my very favourite anecdotes. Somehow, we gotĀ booked for thisĀ 18th birthday party for these twin girls. It was mega posh, in a massive mansion down a tree-lined driveway about 3 miles long, that sort of thing.Ā I honestly donāt really know who the family were, but two of the guys swear blind Dave Gilmour was in attendance at the party. I didnāt see him, but Iām sure he loved our highly-polished set... Anyhow, weād been instructed to play Happy Birthday, so the guests could sing along. Not the hardest number, but equally, not one we wanted to fuck up. Figured, therefore, the safest thing to do was for the keyboard player to just play a nice simple piano version, befitting the classy atmosphere. Gets to an approval point in the evening, and I say something along the lines of āthe reason weāre all here...wish the girls a happy birthday... all join in...āĀ and so on. Expect Alex to play the song and... nothing. Turn to Alex, frozen in fear. Mental block, canāt remember how to play Happy Birthday. Panics, plays the first thing that comes into his head... No coming back from that one. Still got paid, mind. Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted December 6, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2017 21 hours ago, PowerButchi said: The only thing I've not done in front of a crowd (yet) is ya mam. Your loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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