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I was back on that there train and off to LEICESTER last night, to go to The Horse & Trumpet in WIGSTON, so see my friend Chris's gig with his band JOE PUBLIC. He appeared to be a bit embarrassed about the fact that he is now in a COVERS BAND, but i must say it was BLOODY GRATE! There are generally TWO sorts of covers bands for gentlemen of a certain age, and they can be defined by their PURPOSE being EITHER a) to show off a lot about how well they can play their instruments OR b) to have a laugh and get drunk.

Joe Public are in the B) category thankfully - as Chris said, they have a POLICY that if they can't learn a song pretty much in three goes through then they don't do it, and that is a VERY GOOD POLICY. They thus did a set of LOUD and THRASY songs, mixing OLD HITS ("Virginia Plain" being the best one) with CHART STUFF (like Green Day and Franz Ferdinand) and it was ACE. It was certainly the most enjoyable gig of his i have seen in a LONG old time, and i thought to myself what a SHAME it is that COVERS BANDS get so seperated from ORIGINALS BANDS.

Loads of the bands i see by accident these days are perfectly good at PLAYING, but have RUBBISH songs of their own that they INSIST on playing. It'd be SO VERY MUCH BETTER if bands who DIDN'T have enough good songs played somebody ELSE's songs instead. Audiences would CERTAINLY have more fun, and bands could NICK bits they liked and LEARN a bit for future use in making BETTER songs of their own. Hey, it worked for The Beatles, right?

If that WAS the norm then bands like Chris's could MIX IT UP a bit - i know he has MANY fab songs from his past that'd be nice to hear again one day... anyway, i had a LOVELY night, as did the HEAVING PUBFUL of WIGSTONITES, and I went to bed gently warmed by lovely BEACON BITTER, which you don't get round London way. It was GRATE!

posted 2/9/2005 by MJ Hibbett

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