Re: this ever happen to you?

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

Talking of the audience walking out. 
Once my band supported Casper Brotzmann.. I heard him say to his band just as he went on stage... "Vee play till all za audience has gone home..." fucker--- we couldnt load our gear out till he was done... 4 hours later it was just the band, us the sound guy and right in the middle of the room, Gibby Haynes from Butthole Surfers... they played another half an hour just to him, then gave up... 

Mind you it was the Paridiso in Amsterdam... so I was well into it by then!

In the little bar in Oslo where I play now, often I have to go up to tables and say, "Im going to play now, its 30 kroner.. " If people look like they are leaving cos of that, I let them off the price, they usually stay after that... if people leave during a gig, I assume they have a bus to catch!

Welcome to my dream-world!

mark

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Rainer Straschill
<moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.theonion.com/articles/bar-patrons-dismayed-by-sight-of-band-setting-up,17804/
>
> This is interesting, if we look at the timing here:
> Event 1: band starts setting up
> Event 2: new round of drinks served
> Event 2a: drinkers notice band setting up (when upright is brought
> onto the stage)
> Event 3: band starts playing
> Event 4: drinkers finish their drinks.
>
> Now from the description, we find that:
> 2 and 2a practically coincide ("who had just ordered a round").
> The time from 3 to 4 is, to quote again "at least 15 or 20 fucking minutes".
>
> If we furthermore assume that the time from 1 to 2/2a is relatively
> short (say, 5 min.), because you usually notice when the band starts
> setting up, this means:
> a) veeery slow drinkers, and/or
> b) a quick setup time.
>
> If we furthermore assume the consumption time for a bar drink under
> pressed conditions to be 30min (assuming a maximum of
> half-litre-drinks and somewhat drainer drinkers), and the time it
> takes the drinkers to notice the setup being in progress (1 to 2a)
> being 5min., then the band did set up in 15 minutes - this does really
> remind me of those Y2K-style festivals!
>
>         Rainer
>
> ps: don't know if that ever happened to me. I take the liberty of
> ignoring people who leave as soon as I start playing.
>
>

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