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Friday, November 18, 2011
On Stage #11 & #12 - The other bands on the bill
A continuing series of insights from the stage at the local club level...
11.Watch at least part of the other bands' sets; if you're sharing a stage with them that night, you should at least give them a look. If you check them out and they're not to your taste (or not very good...), sure, retreat to the bar, but not caring about, looking at, or listening to any band other than your own pretty clearly makes you an asshole. At least give them a song or two to see what these other bands are like; it's common courtesy.
12. Similarly, if you do skip out on another band's set, it's seriously bad form to come back in after they've finished and tell them how great they were. It seems ridiculous to even type that, but I'm amazed by how often it happens: someone returns from the bar down the street, not having heard a single note of the set, and begins heaping insincere praise on the members of the band they didn't see. It only ever works for about five minutes, too-- someone who saw them walk in after the music stops always calls these people out, forever to be branded as shallow phoneys around the local music scene.
12. Similarly, if you do skip out on another band's set, it's seriously bad form to come back in after they've finished and tell them how great they were. It seems ridiculous to even type that, but I'm amazed by how often it happens: someone returns from the bar down the street, not having heard a single note of the set, and begins heaping insincere praise on the members of the band they didn't see. It only ever works for about five minutes, too-- someone who saw them walk in after the music stops always calls these people out, forever to be branded as shallow phoneys around the local music scene.
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