Worried! Ok, so finally we have 2 gigs lined up, they are on the 23rd and 29th of jan. I wouldnt be all that worried but both gigs have ended up with us as the only band of that genre playing, the first isnt going to be so bad, all the bands (so far) are all black metal bands, i love black metal, however, ill be playing in my death/extreme metal band, we will be the only ones that arent covered head to toe in corpse paint screaming about satan and wearing large amounts of leather with nails sticking out of them, that is not too bad, all im mainly worried about from that gig is respect, i dont want us to be pushed into a little dark corner getting the odd angry look.
the second gig is the one im really worried about. my college music tech class has organised an event at a local venue that is only for bands that come from my class/course (may include 1st year class aswell). Again we will be the only death metal band there, in the class we have a couple of DJs, some indie bands and one kind of punky/stoner band. the event is open to the public to come and watch, it is a popular venue, our teachers are also coming to watch, very scary stuff! i hope we arent the reason most of the crowd leaves as we will be nothing like any one else, our song titles and lyrical content may shock people not expecting to see us and the small crowd of followers we will have might put people off when the hair starts spinning.
and then after all that, monday we have to sit in our lesson with everyone that was there that played and took part and sitting down with our teachers reviewing the night. eek! |