Just need to get something off my chest (I also like to read these stories on TB!) so look away now if you don't want to read a ranting/venting session!
I have played & gigged with this band for the last 18 months. Last Friday night I showed up to band rehearsal at the usual rehearsal space as my band's manager/lead singer confirmed that day that we were booked & everyone was coming (9 piece blues band). When I showed up all the rooms were booked & the guy working there could not fit us in anywhere.
I called our manager and he did not answer - so I sent him an sms about the situation & he replied saying he was too sick to attend & asked me to call the rest of the band. Being a large group that has recently had a line up change, I did not have everyones phone number. I asked him to send the phone numbers I didn't have. He replied saying he didn't have those details available as he was sick at home (where he also works). I didn't hear back from him. I found out over the weekend that only half the band had been informed of the rehearsal!
Friday was not the first time he'd forgotten to book the rehearsal space, luckily in the past we would manage to get a room as it's usually quiet on Friday nights.
Further to this he had lead us all to believe that we were booked to play a list of dates as a house band for a certain artist at a blues festival - I looked up via google & the artist we're supposed to play for were not even touring!
So I quit the band as the amount of BS has become way too much. We've played a few shows before but most of them have been cancelled at the last minute... At first the gigs & rehearsals went fine however, the fun has been sucked out because of his inconsistent BS over the last few months.
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I have played & gigged with this band for the last 18 months. Last Friday night I showed up to band rehearsal at the usual rehearsal space as my band's manager/lead singer confirmed that day that we were booked & everyone was coming (9 piece blues band). When I showed up all the rooms were booked & the guy working there could not fit us in anywhere.
I called our manager and he did not answer - so I sent him an sms about the situation & he replied saying he was too sick to attend & asked me to call the rest of the band. Being a large group that has recently had a line up change, I did not have everyones phone number. I asked him to send the phone numbers I didn't have. He replied saying he didn't have those details available as he was sick at home (where he also works). I didn't hear back from him. I found out over the weekend that only half the band had been informed of the rehearsal!
Friday was not the first time he'd forgotten to book the rehearsal space, luckily in the past we would manage to get a room as it's usually quiet on Friday nights.
Further to this he had lead us all to believe that we were booked to play a list of dates as a house band for a certain artist at a blues festival - I looked up via google & the artist we're supposed to play for were not even touring!
So I quit the band as the amount of BS has become way too much. We've played a few shows before but most of them have been cancelled at the last minute... At first the gigs & rehearsals went fine however, the fun has been sucked out because of his inconsistent BS over the last few months.
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