Last Friday, my band was hired to play for a 30th birthday party. It went pretty swell. The girl (whose name was Star) found us on Gumtree. Our ad is now taken down (and thank goodness, because my sister posted the advert with the title that had "acoustic" spelt as "accoustic").
smh doesn't even cover it.
It was our first proper paid gig and we worked pretty hard to cover as many of Star's song requests as we could in the limited time we had (we learnt something like 10 new songs in 10 days).
Thankfully we had our friend James be our sound guy for the day (without him we'd have been pretty darn screwed) and gourmet hot dogs and toddlers with balloons were involved at some point too.
We performed quite a bit better than I expected, but to be honest my expectations were not as high as usual. Basically because when you're in a band you need to rely on people other than yourself which is pretty difficult for a perfectionist with efficient work ethic. Not to sound rude or anything.
Oh and also when your administrative band member tells you the date of the gig is the 30th and suddenly oh crap it's the 23rd, things in your head might start to go haywire. We even had one band member (Deb) absent and had to find a replacement (Davina). Thank God she was an excellent replacement.
Our swan song I Will Wait went over really well. Yay for not messing up the chords. And also yay for mumford and sons.
This was our set list (we didn't do Somewhere Over the Rainbow):
And this is me:
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