I had to borrow an amp, which I couldn’t turn on, so the first song started without me. For the two songs in which I had to do some simple picking, I would stare intently at the plectrum in my hands throughout, often having moved to an area of the stage where the light was better so I could see what I was doing. I had no idea how to really play the guitar, I just hammered 3 power chords in repetitive patterns for 3 minutes at a time. If I tried to give you an undeniable example of a bad gig, I’d probably use the first one that I and my former band – the occasionally missed Product Recall – ever played, at The Shed, Leicester, in 2009. I’ve been to gigs which many others could have argued were awful, but which I loved every second of I’ve been to gigs which I’ve hated, but thousands of people around me have been orgasming to and I’ve been to one gig where I’m pretty sure 99% of the people in the NEC Arena agreed it was a giant waste of money.Īny one of them could qualify as a bad gig, but I bet even the worst one had something to redeem it, and at least one person that enjoyed it, so how can we write it off completely? Talent? Skill? Those are highly relative. What makes a gig a bad gig? What makes anything a bad anything for that matter? Previously on Sweating With Strangers: Kelly Jones takes drugs and has a bad haircut in an Exeter cowshed.
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