Me first gig... and happy as hell!!!
Posted: 07 Sep 2003, 15:28
Well... I could've posted this in the other thread about me first gig... But according to my recent feelings and emotions it did not quite fit in there.
First of all: it was AWESOME.
The light show was over the top (love it!), the sound was perfect, the venue (capacity 100 peeps
) was brim-filled.
The whole week was nerve-wrecking, but yesterday I was very calm. I did not care anymore. The only thing I thought about was :"Well, this is what we've been working for the last coppola years, and this is our reward".
And it helped. When I went on stage, and I saw the crowd, it was just like in the 'old' days. Except these people actually had brains
The whole set was perfect, our keyboardplayer missed one chord or so and that was the only mistake made.
We played eight songs. We thanked the crowd and went off-stage. People could not believe it. They wanted more. We could not believe it.
But we had a time schedule, so we started to remove our stuff offstage and replace it with the next bands' stuff.
After this we had the time to talk to people. And their comments were both very flattering and helpful.
The overall sentiment was: great, brilliant and a good live performance. Some musicians gave some good advice about my singing, the show overall and some small tidbits ('speak dutch in between the songs', 'ditch the sunglasses, you looked like Matrix Reloaded', 'kick the guitarist's ass a couple of times' etc...)
The other bands... well, everyone said we should've been headliners. The reason we did not do this is, that the other bands are more famous than we are. But, according to the crowd, we were the best band that evening.
People took pictures, there's a MiniDisc recording direct-PA, and there's video recording.
I'll try (in the next week) to do something with the stuff and put it on our temporary site http://server.dd4e.net/avatar .
Finally, I wanna say a BIG FECKING THANX to ALL PEEPS that, in one way or another, supported or helped us.
All helpers at the gig (entrance, bar personnel, backstage helpers, dj's, KORK sound and lighting, cleaning crew,...), all the people that came to see us, and of course all people HERE AT MYHEARTLAND that supported me and wished me good luck or gave me good advice.
THANX !!!!!
First of all: it was AWESOME.
The light show was over the top (love it!), the sound was perfect, the venue (capacity 100 peeps
) was brim-filled.The whole week was nerve-wrecking, but yesterday I was very calm. I did not care anymore. The only thing I thought about was :"Well, this is what we've been working for the last coppola years, and this is our reward".
And it helped. When I went on stage, and I saw the crowd, it was just like in the 'old' days. Except these people actually had brains
The whole set was perfect, our keyboardplayer missed one chord or so and that was the only mistake made.
We played eight songs. We thanked the crowd and went off-stage. People could not believe it. They wanted more. We could not believe it.
But we had a time schedule, so we started to remove our stuff offstage and replace it with the next bands' stuff.
After this we had the time to talk to people. And their comments were both very flattering and helpful.
The overall sentiment was: great, brilliant and a good live performance. Some musicians gave some good advice about my singing, the show overall and some small tidbits ('speak dutch in between the songs', 'ditch the sunglasses, you looked like Matrix Reloaded', 'kick the guitarist's ass a couple of times' etc...)
The other bands... well, everyone said we should've been headliners. The reason we did not do this is, that the other bands are more famous than we are. But, according to the crowd, we were the best band that evening.
People took pictures, there's a MiniDisc recording direct-PA, and there's video recording.
I'll try (in the next week) to do something with the stuff and put it on our temporary site http://server.dd4e.net/avatar .
Finally, I wanna say a BIG FECKING THANX to ALL PEEPS that, in one way or another, supported or helped us.
All helpers at the gig (entrance, bar personnel, backstage helpers, dj's, KORK sound and lighting, cleaning crew,...), all the people that came to see us, and of course all people HERE AT MYHEARTLAND that supported me and wished me good luck or gave me good advice.
THANX !!!!! 
