Guitar forum gig, who would be interested?

Jayhell · 2014-06-20T10:47:38+00:00

It's Official our event is up and running! Follow the official Facebook event: Heart of Music and Guitar Forum South Africa brings you a bouquet of acts to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon. From acoustic artist all the way to hard rock bands. Come have a beer and a pizza and listen to some great bands and artists at Rumours lounge. Invite your friends and family! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: 14 September Venue: Rumours Lounge - Bar - Restaurant Address: Cornelius Street, Weltevreden Park, Gauteng 1709 Entrance Fee: R30.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14:00 - 14:30 - Squonk 14:40 - 15:10 - Brian G 15:20 - 15:50 - Pete Misselbrook 16:00 - 16:30 - Jazz on Blue 16:45 - 17:25 - Radio silence 17:40 - 18:20 - Shadow Knights 18:35 - 19:15 - Peavey Park 19:30 - 20:10 - Sun of the Gun 20:25 - 21:05 - Ragamuffin 21:20 - 22:00 - Revery - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Use this hash tag on Twitter and Facebook so we can track the movements: #fortheloveofguitar All the bands' proceedings will go to the West Rand Association for Persons with disabilities.

PeteM

Jayhell wrote Can the solo artists please give me their performing names as the Venues are interested in knowing who the artists are.

I perform under my real name... Pete Misselbrook

bindog

If you guys feed me tequila there's a chance I'll break out a solo acoustic summin summin

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Leon_AiA

We - Adorned in Ash - have played many and also arranged a couple of shows at Rumours and this is how it worked:

1. Rumours do not charge venue hire or for the sound guy. They make their revenue off of the bar and food.

2. The smaller front stage is the default. If your crowd is going to grow well past 200 they'll open the main stage for you. That's okay because if the numbers are slightly low it still looks and feels full at the smaller front stage.

3. You have to supply your own door person (PC term...) and obviously pay them out of own pocket too.

4. Typical sets are 45min with a 15min change-over. That includes setting up, breaking down and sound check. Most bands on the live circuit are well adept at doing this (Not always very happy about it, but adept). If you need to start on the hour you will do sound check from 5min to, carry gear up the 5 min before that and you'll have 5 min afterwards to get your gear off of the stage. Thus if it looks like you are going to hit the quarter-to-the-next-hour mark the sound guy will give you a ± 7 minute warning to work in your show-ending song before your set is cut.

5. If you have enough numbers coming through the door they will offer you both stages and then the change-overs are much more relaxed, but I've seen that only once. Normally the big stage gets set up, using one sound guy and one set of desk, mics, cables, etc.

6. If your bands have their tech riders ready it can be sent to Rumours a week or two beforehand and they'll make sure that Music Connection hooks them up with enough mics, cables, amps, whatever. I still end up taking my own mic, mic stand and XLR cable as I've had to vocal on our 5"3" vocalist's mic before. I'm 6 feet tall and have to stand with legs wiiiide apart or bend over. Legs wide is more \m/etal so I went with that... They usually have decent amps on stage to use for those who would want to, but I prefer my own sound and setup so I schlep along heaps of gear everywhere. Make sure of the back line, especially the skeleton kit as it changes and might not be what your people need, but generally it is a rock-up-and-melt-faces type of affair.

Jayhell

Cool thanks, Leon_AiA. I have played there many times but never had a look into what's going on behind the scenes, but as you say it's pretty much rock up and melt faces set up. I'm not going to stress to much about this now, I'm going to give it till the end of the week and see if any other venues are interested and what bands still want to join, I had another 5 bands ask me to join after 5 today (those who do not internet at work ? ). So now I'm absolutely stumped about what to do with about 20 acts. I think some people are actually joining the forum just to be a part of this. I opened a can of worms here... but alas. If we have 4 people in a band and each person brings 4 people we are looking at 320 people max, if only the bands show up its already 100 people, if each of them buys one drink and eats a pizza, it will make any venue smile I think.

Jayhell

Interested acts so far...

Solo artists:

Briang
PeteM - Pete Misselbrook
Squonk

Bands:

Keira WitherKay - Jazz on Blues
Psean - Radio silence
Jayhell - Sun of the Gun
rockjock1972 - Ruby Tuesday
Chabenda - Testestickles
epictring - Ragamuffin
Lethe - Revery

And then a whole lot more that responded via facebook and email that I'm not so sure if they are part of the forum, what is our take on this? I don't mind the organizing it's the decision making that gets me down!

We need more????

Psean

Jayhell wrote I think some people are actually joining the forum just to be a part of this. I opened a can of worms here... but alas.

Eish, ja... :-[

Psean

Any more progress here?

Jayhell

I'm still waiting for Rumours to give us the go ahead. Otherwise it will be at Amuse, we just need to manage our time and cut a few bands (especially those who don't seem to be on the forum).

Jayhell

We got Rumours Lounge for the whole of Sunday the 7th of September! Angie from Heart of Music has taken it on herself to handle all of the logistics. We just need to confirm the bands, rock up and play! We will start confirming everything from next week like times etc. We just need to support this gig with as many people as possible. Let's make it a big one.

Psean

Awesome :goodtimes: Thanks man. I'll confirm shortly. Just gotta check out a few things...
When you say the whole day, from when 'til when is that?

Thanks

Jayhell

Psean wrote Awesome :goodtimes: Thanks man. I'll confirm shortly. Just gotta check out a few things...
When you say the whole day, from when 'til when is that?

Thanks

That's from 14:00 up till 22:00. I just need a final confirmation then we can build a line up. No one better chicken out, we need to make it a success. My drummer is already being an ass, saying it's his birthday and whatnot, he wants to go away. So if all else fails I'll do a solo Acoustic show as well.

Psean

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VellaJ

Hey guys, kinda only remembered about this now :-[

If you're still looking for bands, stu (also from the forum) and I would be cool to play with our band, Peavey Park. We've gigged Rumours many times and are pretty used to the format there.

Jayhell

My week has been nuts, I'll probably get round to confirming everything this weekend. Since we have a date now, everyone can officially confirm, I think.

Jayhell

Would acoustic artist be happy with 30min (+10 minutes setup) sets and bands with 40 (+15 setup)? Let me know if you require more than 15 minutes to set up.

Psean

Sounds good to me ?

Squonk

Excellent

Psean

Squonk wrote Excellent

Squonk

Psean wrote
Squonk wrote Excellent
Most triumphantly excellent

Bob-Dubery

Jayhell wrote Would acoustic artist be happy with 30min (+10 minutes setup) sets and bands with 40 (+15 setup)? Let me know if you require more than 15 minutes to set up.

I'd suggest you get a rider from each act listing what they need on stage. The late Fingerpicker and I used to do this at TJ's. We even wanted to know if the performer wanted to stand or sit. We were never restrictive, we just wanted to know what you were going to need on stage. We found that if we were forewarned we could pre-position some items to get into play quickly when needed, we got no surprises and we could turn acts around really quickly.

I started working this way after I saw somebody else run a night at TJ's and get some surprises. One of which went
"You didn't tell me you were bringing your whole band!"
"Well you didn't ask me who or what I was bringing."

Ever since then I've made it my business to find out exactly who and what is going to be on stage.

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