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  • June 8, 2016 at 12:17 pm #35596
    lee_UK
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    We played an absolute stormer of a gig last night, we played a very good music pub in Hornchurch, great venue, great music lovers, mostly under 25’s who cheered more for the classic rock than the newer stuff, we played ‘Town called malice’ and the singer just lifted the mic in the air, the whole venue sang it all word for word all the way through! i remember seeing The Jam when i was 18, saw them twice, the most memorable gigs i ever went to,
    anyway, we played 2 x 50 min sets and got a good fee for it, we play other places that want 2 1hr sets and others that want a marathon 2 1/2 hrs, just wondered how this compares to the rest of you?
    What kind of set times are you playing?
    In my other band (we play originals) we tend to play a supporting 45min set, but then again you dont get paid.

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    • May 19, 2007 at 10:12 pm #128312
      lee_UK
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      😆

    • May 17, 2007 at 6:27 am #128313
      1bassleft
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      Here’s an irony. Last night, Andy the Git suggested we could do a few covers. Among the suggns of his was “I Predict a Riot”. Did you use a tabsite that you can recommend, Lee? Or perhaps you could photocopy it and charge me 12 bucks? 😉

    • May 15, 2007 at 6:35 am #128311
      Michael
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      I was gonna say… would take either a lot of time or a lot of E.

    • May 15, 2007 at 12:36 am #128310
      lee_UK
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      I like Vertigo too, the setlist above is not an actual setlist, but a list of songs we draw our set from, we would generally get through about 30 of those, although we did once do most of those songs in a memorable marathon gig.

    • May 14, 2007 at 5:42 am #128309
      1bassleft
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      FWIW, I think Vertigo is a better number than Desire.

    • May 11, 2007 at 7:02 am #128308
      Michael
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      Not an easy set… A lot of big numbers that must leave yas pretty worked over. That’s a compliment btw.

      I’d drop Vertigo and throw in Desire. Nice to see Let’s Stick Together toward the end.

    • May 11, 2007 at 6:55 am #128306
      lee_UK
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      [quote=”Michael”]

      Were you mixing newer music, or did you mean other bands were playing new music and you were doing just classic rock?
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      Born to be wild – Steppenwolf .
      Jumpin Jack flash – Stones.
      River boat song – OCS
      Sunflower- Weller
      Pinball wizard – Who.
      You’ve got to hide Your Love – Beatles
      She’s Electric – Oasis
      Keep On Running – Dave clark
      Remedy- Black Crows
      Hard to handle – Black Crows
      Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
      Back in the USSR – Beatles
      Dont beleive a word – Thin Lizzy
      The Letter – Joe Cocker
      Day Tripper – Beatles
      Lil Devil – The Cult
      Sunny Afternoon – Kinks
      Learn To Fly – Foo fighters
      You do something to me – Weller
      Substitute – Who
      Are you going my way? – Lenny Kravitz
      Can’t Get Enough Of your love – Bad Company
      20th century boy – T Rex
      I Predict A Riot – Kaiser cheifs
      Doctor doctor – Robert Palmer
      Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
      Saturday nights alright for fighting- E John
      Hey Jude – Beatles
      Smoke On The water – Deep purple
      You Really got me – Kinks
      Brown Sugar – Stones
      Alright Now – Free
      Vertigo- U2
      Vallerie – Zutons
      That’s Entertainment – The Jam
      Are you gonna Be my Girl? – Jet
      Dani California – RHCP
      Chelsea Dagger – Fratellis
      Walk this way – Aerosmith
      Cant Explain – Who
      Symapthy for the devil – Stones
      Dakota – Stereophonics
      Not fade away – Stones
      Mustang sally – Commitments
      A Town called Malice – Jam
      Hush – Kula Shaker
      Lets stick together – Roxy Music
      Cigarettes and Alcohol- Oasis

      As you can see Mike it’s a good mix of old and new.

    • May 11, 2007 at 3:00 am #128307
      Tim
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      Yeah we used to play 2x 45min, 19 songs if I remember rightly? The shorter gigs were better 10-12 songs.

    • May 10, 2007 at 8:49 am #128304
      1bassleft
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      With my originals bands, we’d start ca 9:20 (always nervous looks from the bar-owner from 8:45 onwards, for some stupid reason), break at 10pm and go back on from 10:20 until just shy of closing and usually repeat one from the set to take it to 11pm. 80 minutes by my math, requiring around 16 songs and my legendary “amusing” audience-parley.

      Bit of a ballache, really, and inevitably involving shoeing in some of our duffer fillers around the good ones. Much more pleasant to split the gig with another band and do 10 songs/45mins each. I’ve never done pure covers, although my 2nd band had about four Oasis/Radiohead numbers until we’d got our own comps up to the necessary 16.

    • May 9, 2007 at 11:21 am #128305
      Michael
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      Always a crowd pleaser that one.

      Were you mixing newer music, or did you mean other bands were playing new music and you were doing just classic rock?

      45 mins sounds about right for an originals. Unless you’ve managed to get a full house on your presence alone. Or it’s a Tuesday night.

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