A continuing series of insights from the stage at the local club level...
1. Have fun up there. Nothing loses a crowd faster than a band that wishes they were somewhere else, except maybe a band that contemptuously looks down on the audience and other bands at the show.
Even limited to my experiences, this list is nowhere near complete. I planted it as one of the first pages when I began this blog with the very first handful of points from the quickest surface skim of my gray matter. It will continue to grow.