Hi all. As sone of you know I do the pubs and clubs in the North east (and further afield) - advertising my gigs on here: Saturday 22nd December - Heppies Sports & Social Club, North Hylton Rd, Sunderland Sunday 23rd December - Billingham Constitutional Club Monday 24th December - Ferryhill Station Club Saturday 29th December - Metropolitan Bar, Westmorland Rd, Elswick, Newcastle Monday 31st December - Stockton Buffs Club
When I saw the title of this post I thought, aye aye, Ryan must be shagging his brothers missus again over the festive period.
I play solo mate - me, the guitar and thebacking tracks - no money in working for a band nowadays unfortunately!! I go out as Marcus Black
Backing tracks? In other words,you don't really play, you just mime to someone else playing. Its people like you that have destroyed live music.
WTF???? I remove the guitar from all of the tracks I play - I cannot play Drums, Keyboard, Guitar and Horns when I play the clubs - But I DO play the guitar and have never mimed so get your facts straight and ask rather than accusing For the record BC - I much prefer fully live music - it is certainly not me who killed it as clubland music was dying long before I started playing solo 10 years ago - just when I was in a band I am out from 6pm until 2am and make between £30 and £50 - solo I go out - play everything guitar wise live (including a couple of acoustic tracks with no backing) and sing and can easily make over £150 per night
Shouldn't have justified yourself to him mate. So do you ever get across South Tyneside and what sort of music do you play? Any particular artists or bands songs you like to play?
I occasionally get to south tyneside but a lot of the places over there use Unsworth Agency and I don't really get much from them as I fell out with them a few years ago!! The band I used to be in played The Office and Annie McCarthy's which were both excellent gigs (Bullet) but right now I haven't got much over that way - will keep advsertising on here so keep an eye out mate Ediot - sorry 83 didn;t answer your question about the type of music - play all sorts as I have to keep the oldies hapy but like doing rock stuff like Zeppelin and things like that - they are the ones that suit my voice best
Great to see another working musician on here, (and myself being a drummer/percussionist, yes I know some peeps may question my being a fellow musician statement lol) it's great to see your busy with gigs, as they are definitely getting harder to get with the current economic situation, with venues closing etc. I'm usually working on the live pub scene with some occasional club work, tbh I prefer the pubs to clubs (cannot stand bingo for one thing) I will try and catch to see one of your gigs sometime. regards para diddles
What's your band's name para? It's great in pubs like as the crowds are mainly youngish so you can get away with my favourite stuff like the rock (Zeppelin, Free, Deep Purple) - Like some pubs but it has to be the right one really otherwise the crowds are a little old for my liking.
I play in few different acts mostly playing percussion usually it's duo's or trio gigs nowadays, plus I do some drum kit depping when I can get it
