Something happened last night, that has never happened in my time as a musician and probably will never happen again.
I turned up to play lead bone with a Band I had never played with before.
It was a Concert for 'Help the Heroes' and the pub had hosted a Fun day at the pub a few hours before. The landlord came in and said their had been loads of interest and their should be a large audience.
The Concert started at 7.50pm and I counted the people in the audience who had turned out, for such a great cause. This took me approximately 1 second, as the total was nil.
I also did an audience count after an hour of hard blowing. The total remained the same!!!
The Band went off to the bar for a drink in the interval and my heart sank as I realised they were going to come back and do the full hour second set to an empty room!!!!
Luckily the Landlord came over and said 'You might as well go home lads'
This I did.
I had also waived my fee for the night, as it was for charity...but the charity got nothing?
To be fair, the Band were relatively new and only been going for about 6 years. They were all keen and happy and just in it for the beer and blow (now where have I heard that before?) and all the best to them for that.
But how sad that no one came out to support the cause?
I have to relate a funny incident though.
I had heard a very loud whistling, like a feedback sound all the way through the first (last) half. I remarked about this to another musician. He laughed and told me it was an instrumentalists deaf aid...everyone could hear the noise except him????
I was expecting a guy with a microphone and camera, to come out from 'You've been nobbled'
But no, it was all for real????
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