giggsy
Thought it would be interesting to see how many people you guys and girls have played to - if I include my wife and daughter, then my total is two ?
inflames
About 25 people at a camp fire! That is why I did not quit my day job, realize I would not make it in the music industry ?
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A little over 10 000 at one of the Oppis. King's Park Stadium, around 8000. Some other places there weren't quotes on crowd numbers... Those gigs are actually the easiest - you're not really looking anyone in the eye. Hahahaha.
mattayou
Me about 150! Not that much would love to play in front of more!
PeteM
Full-house at the State Opera House - 1300.
aja
Depends on how many people are in the music shop at the time
nick
Entire school, Std 6 till Matric ? Or a full pub, not sure how many people that is 8)
giggsy
aja wrote
Depends on how many people are in the music shop at the time
Haha - didnt think of that... I'm probably in double figures then!
Manfred-Klose
about 3000-4000 people playing session at a music festival.
Danny-B
A few thousand at music festivals...my favourite audience was only about 50 people though ?
Bob-Dubery
I didn't count, but about 300 I would guess. That was with a band (a long time ago, in another life time). Since I started playing again I would think about 50 to 60 has been the biggest audience.
Riaan-Combrink
About 300.
I've actually found its more intimidating if there's less people - much more direct one-on-one contact to deal with.
Keira-WitherKay
yeah . i often perform the ussual festival circuit... but i too like the softer intimate gigs the best............. big crowds ussually mean big sound and for acoustic musicians thats ussually just more headaches with feedback and generally unnatural sounds....... and sound engineers who give you their idea of how you should sound heheheh so yeah i prefer more intimate venues.........
aubs1
We opened for The Flames, (on their "See The Light" tour of Southern Africa, just before splitting up, (then Blondie and Ricky went on to play with the Beach Boys) at the Glamis Stadium, Salisbury, Rhodesia, (today Harare, Zimbabwe), for about 12 to 15,000.
We opened with a very controversial song at the time called "The Melting Pot", by a group called Blue Mink, another one hit wonder band, (Rhodesia was still sympathetic to the SA government at the time), and the stadium erupted! Will never forget that feeling.......
Here is a clip of the song, listen to the lyrics, anyone remember it? ....... ?
Rudolf
Hmmm as a DJ, Woodstock 2004 DMC tent roughly 400 people inside. Guitar, yeh maybe 5..at most at once. :-[
arjunmenon
Roughly 32 - 32.5 thousand as part of a band called Thermal & a quarter when we opened for Deep Purple in Bangalore, India.
The best audience though numbered in the region of about 14 - 15. ?
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Arjun Menon wrote
Roughly 32 - 32.5 thousand
32,500..... ? ? ? ? ?
I get nervous playing in front of 20 people hahaha
Most I have played in front of:
on 'stage' 4 times...
300, 900, 100, 50 people...
mattayou
How many people listen to the weekly competitions? ?
IceCreamMan
Wife's book club ..about 15 or so and none of them actually knew any of the songs ....
but my eye is on the future .... tens of thousands in huge arenas
Heath
a pub full of people ..... say arounda 100 or so i would hazard a guess ....
