STUPID BAR OWNER

bassfrenzie · #1 08-06-2008, 05:05 PM

The gig has been advertized for weeks.

There's an email buzz, not many blues acts around here so we always get a crowd. I'm getting phone calls, people are coming down. Cool.

We spent this afternoon taking time off work to set up. Gig starts at 8:30.

6:PM I get a call from the front man.

The bar called, (major upscale Hotel) somebody forgot to renew the frigfgin' liquor license and it has since expired.

No Gig tonight!!!

It's postponed until tomorrow.

So I guess it's not all THAT bad, but damn...

CerealKiller · #2 08-06-2008, 07:36 PM

Don't sweat it....

...you'll probably get a much better Thurs. crowd anyway.

What an idiot though.....the liquor is where the profits are at.

thumpbass1 · #3 08-07-2008, 12:47 PM

Get used to this sort of thing when you do the club circuit. I can't recall how many gigs I've seen screwed up because of double booking on the club's part, or they forgot that they booked you, even if you show them a signed general contract, etc. The best one was when the band I'm in pulled into the parking lot of a club where we had a gig at, and IRS agents came to seize the place due to some tax shenanigans on the part of the owner. He always paid the hired help and the bands in spite of whatever else he must have been up to; but I have nightmares of what could have happened if our gear had been set up! " Sorry, but you'll have to prove that all this equipment aren't assets of the club!" I could be wrong, but I shudder to think about it. Anyways, all one can do is to stay on top their buisness and enjoy this often crazy ride of playing music that comprises the club circuit side of the biz.

John Wentzien · #4 08-07-2008, 01:15 PM

About half of the venues we play got flooded-out this year.
Had to cancel MANY gigs till they got cleaned-up.
We were booked up for the summer 'till that happened!

Bass Pleasures · #5 08-07-2008, 02:19 PM

My band played a city centre venue for the first time a couple of months ago and we went down a storm.

The landlady didn't actually get to see us, she had been elsewhere that evening and got back just as we finished but the barstaff told her they'd been rushed off their feet all night, it'd been a great show, etc.

She promptly booked us in for two more shows.

Our singer was on a little bit of a pub crawl on monday afternoon and went into this pub.

He noted, with some consternation, that there was a poster for another band's show on one of the dates we were due to play.

On the whole, it's better that we found out we were double-booked a few weeks in advance than when we were loading in!

Still a bit of a ball-ache though, we were looking forward to that one.

bassfrenzie · #6 08-08-2008, 05:51 PM

The hotel redeemed the liquor license, we did the gig last night and it went great. People who tried to get in wed came back on thurs, so it was a boost to our already overly inflated egos.

It's good to be the only driving blues band in the area.

heh, heh, heh