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11-21-2009, 11:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | | Last nights near disaster gig!
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Right (hope this isn't too long-winded) - our band occaisionally plays this jam night, the oeners are selling up so it was the last one...we decided to go down!
Well, I'm a few mins late - I get there and they're already there so we're sitting down unable to speak coz of the loud music already comin out of the P.A...I say hello and our singer doesn't reply, he's a pretty strange guy...could be I'm a wimp but if he doesn't talk to me I'm thinkin "ok, its gonna be one of those nights!" so I don't talk to him (he can flip out more than I'm used to, so I usually just leave him...don't wanna set him off!)
Anyway, his girlfriend was there and he suddenly went outside with her (in the uk its illegal to smoke indoors so I didn't think anything of it...) - anyway, they were arguing about something (not the first time) and I was knocking around with our guitarist outside who suddenly tells me they were having an argument and had stormed off - ok, so he tries to ring him and find out whats going on, during the snippets of conversation I understood he was going to jack it in...after the 4th time of trying to reason with/getting cut off by the singer he flips, smashed his glass on the floor and smashes his phone up (by which time his dad's come outside and is giving him a bollocking for that...)
We eventually find out which direction he'd stormed off in (oh yeah -he'd snapped the key off in the ignition on her car whilst they were arguing, thats why they were walking the 3 or 4 miles back home) and sent said guitarists dad and uncle after them in the car...whilst they were gone we made a decision to kick him out if he didn't come back with them - they came back without him.
We knew he would just be ringing up the next day, so our "leader" I guess (he wouldn't call himself that...but I think we all look up to him somewhat as he's got more experience) rang him up 15-20 mins later and told him basicaly "Hear me out...blah blah...now you can stay with her or come back to us!" and basically gave him the ultimatum...he came back and we did the gig.
I still said no more than 2 words to him all night, but during that argument she announced she was kicking him out so he actually had all his stuff with him at the gig!
I'm actually impressed how much he'd calmed down when we rang him the last time...he's a real hothead so he COULD'VE so easily still have been in a rage and been kicked out, but the common sense he's actually got but keeps hidden half the time actually showed itself at the right time - wonders will never cease! (yeah...this IS the band from my recent posts!) I just saw how our guitarist reacted and threatened to leave if the singer was staying...I actually thought to myself "Ah...so THIS is how a band breaks up!!"
Because of this we were waiting there for 3-and-a-half hours before we went on...band dramas, don't ya just love 'em?
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11-21-2009, 01:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | Your singer's how old did ya say?? 9.. or did you say 5 years old? Time to either shove him out or find a new band yourself. |
11-21-2009, 01:23 PM
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11-21-2009, 01:53 PM
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11-21-2009, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Your location can be this long | | | Oy, oy, oy. We have one of the wonders of world.... a lead singer who's the calmest of us all and the easiest to get along with!
(we also have a guitarist who once told me he plays guitar because bass is too hard!! I love my band)
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11-22-2009, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Rattman Your singer's how old did ya say?? 9.. or did you say 5 years old? Time to either shove him out or find a new band yourself. | Nah he's not 9...he's 29!
Well, like I say - he'd better not be screwing us around again coz no question about it he's gone next time...and he knows it!  Quote: |
Originally Posted by nutso42 We have one of the wonders of world.... a lead singer who's the calmest of us all and the easiest to get along with! | ...I don't believe it, not possible! You jammy Ba####d! 
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11-22-2009, 06:48 AM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | well blimey, guvna, that was a right rum go eh? I'd 'ave tickled the ol' pig snout and laced his larder with a lorry in the loo, know what I mean? Can't bloody well have the lift stuck in the bonnet with all your bangers and no mash!
(Hoping that was England English, cuz I only understood like a third of what you said, andI am pretty savvy with England English I thought?)
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11-22-2009, 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by lousybassplayer well blimey, guvna, that was a right rum go eh? I'd 'ave tickled the ol' pig snout and laced his larder with a lorry in the loo, know what I mean? Can't bloody well have the lift stuck in the bonnet with all your bangers and no mash!
(Hoping that was England English, cuz I only understood like a third of what you said, andI am pretty savvy with England English I thought?) | Er...I understood the first sentence, I'm not southern though so I dunno a lot of "Cock-Knee rhyming slang"!
Basically - singer storms outside, snaps key in car ignition so walks off, guitarist tries to ring him then gets mad when he gets cut off, we send his dad and uncle after him, they come back without him, we ring him up again and he has calmed down enough to come back...with all his stuff as his girl has just kicked him out!
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11-22-2009, 07:22 AM
| | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | I know, had to take the piss out of it or whatever the expression is (is that Australian?). Gotta pick on the guys across the pond, ya know? In any case I have no idea about regional dialects and accents in England.
Back on topic, I think its time to give ol' tuggernuts the heave ho. I mean for one thing its easy to replace a singer (although hard to do it well) and for another now that he is out on his ass, he is going to become the band leech. Trust me, nip it in the bud before he is bumming smokes, rides, beers and whatever else.
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11-22-2009, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | | well...erm, sod it - he's still with us and he knows how lucky he is (hopefully) so lets see what happens
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11-22-2009, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by lousybassplayer I know, had to take the piss out of it or whatever the expression is (is that Australian?). Gotta pick on the guys across the pond, ya know? In any case I have no idea about regional dialects and accents in England. | Taking the piss works as an expression here 
The Sheffield accent is very very different from what you might think of as a 'British accent' Look up yorkshire accent on youtube  |
11-22-2009, 09:14 AM
| | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | I know the stereoptypical cockney accent from some others. I am from New England, so actually some English accents sound very much like how we are accused of talking. I know there are certain colloqiulisms (sp) that are regional in England as well, so I wasn't sure about the taking piss thing. For some reason I find myself interested in English dialects/accents/figures of speech. I guess if I am going to complain that no one in my country speaks English, I had better know it in all of its incarnations myself.
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11-22-2009, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by hellfleet Taking the piss works as an expression here
The Sheffield accent is very very different from what you might think of as a 'British accent' Look up yorkshire accent on youtube | Well, I'm from sheffield but the others are from rotherham so basically I'm from the furthest south you can get in yorkshire to still find the accent bloody awful. My accents pretty much non-existant coz im from a nice bit...but if I hadn't spent so much time in Barnsley before I joined the band a couple of them would have no hope communicating with me! (and hell, if you've cracked the Barnsley accent you can understand pretty much anything yorkshire!  )
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11-22-2009, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by lousybassplayer In any case I have no idea about regional dialects and accents in England. | It's a lot like here. Some southern folks speak in a barely understandable way, at least to us northerners.
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11-26-2009, 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by addylewis ...singer storms outside, snaps key in car ignition so walks off, guitarist tries to ring him then gets mad when he gets cut off, we send his dad and uncle after him, they come back without him, we ring him up again and he has calmed down enough to come back...with all his stuff as his girl has just kicked him out! | And you're paid for this?
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11-26-2009, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by lousybassplayer well blimey, guvna, that was a right rum go eh? I'd 'ave tickled the ol' pig snout and laced his larder with a lorry in the loo, know what I mean? Can't bloody well have the lift stuck in the bonnet with all your bangers and no mash!
(Hoping that was England English, cuz I only understood like a third of what you said, andI am pretty savvy with England English I thought?) | Quote:
Originally Posted by addylewis Er...I understood the first sentence, I'm not southern though so I dunno a lot of "Cock-Knee rhyming slang"!
Basically - singer storms outside, snaps key in car ignition so walks off, guitarist tries to ring him then gets mad when he gets cut off, we send his dad and uncle after him, they come back without him, we ring him up again and he has calmed down enough to come back...with all his stuff as his girl has just kicked him out! | to put it in terms familiar to a limey.......e's 'avin ya on mate
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11-26-2009, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by My name is Mudd And you're paid for this? | Nope, we do our own stuff - and it was a final jam night we go to which is near the guitarists house...
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11-26-2009, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kingswinford,Dudley,West Mids | | | Sheffield accent aint too bad! Try talk to people from different countries with a black country accent!! I guess were lucky as well, singer in my band is probably one of the most approachable understanding fellas there is! |
11-27-2009, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Luke666uk Sheffield accent aint too bad! Try talk to people from different countries with a black country accent!! I guess were lucky as well, singer in my band is probably one of the most approachable understanding fellas there is! | Heh-heh!
I remember ages ago at college I had a mate who was italian so he was kinda semi-learning the language as he went along...I went to college in Barnsley - so he was learning BAAAAAARNSLE' english, what was funnier was he had the strong italian accent too...poor sod actually did ok!
The Sheffield accent isn't as broad as the rest of yorkshire...but some people from different areas within sheffield speak with an accent - you don't realise how mellow it actually is til you go to Rotherham and Barnsley!
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11-27-2009, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by addylewis Heh-heh!
I remember ages ago at college I had a mate who was italian so he was kinda semi-learning the language as he went along...I went to college in Barnsley - so he was learning BAAAAAARNSLE' english, what was funnier was he had the strong italian accent too...poor sod actually did ok!
The Sheffield accent isn't as broad as the rest of yorkshire...but some people from different areas within sheffield speak with an accent - you don't realise how mellow it actually is til you go to Rotherham and Barnsley! | Definitely mate, got family that live up that way and its like a different language and they feel the same way bout us haha! We played with a bunch of lads from Scotland and I had to translate for all of them to us and vice versa! Im pretty good with accents lol | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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