Chopstix44
Active Member
Hey there, it’s still plenty of time until we (if we are accepted to it) play a gig and the venue will be most probably a stage (there are several stages some are more festival like than others but a visitor told that live music would be played on that stage) where the audience just will sit near the stage and eat and drink.
I’m not totally up for sticktricks (and can’t even do some) and my bass player finds it very annoying, the crowd however was usually described as just drinking and eating while watching the concerts.
Now I already wonder what we can do (except as playing as best as we can) to make them more interactive? We will mainly play Rock and some Popmusic.
We also had discussions because I would want us to do something that separates us from other bands who look so bored while playing the local gigs here. And we discussed if we already should do merch after the gig despite being newcomers.
The bass player said no except for some Autogram card he’ll hand out after the gig, my idea was a merch stand or tossing some cool looking merch like a few caps into the crowd if we get them to stand up and like us even some used painted drum heads/my sticks (if we play on a more openair Festival like Stage), my bass player doesn’t like even the merch stand idea and seems super shy and insecure about anything (which in real life he isn’t at all).
We are from Germany so we actually have more freedom on what we can do on concerts than for example it would be the case in the US where they’d sue you for almost everything.
What do you think? What except for playing an as best gig as you can would you do in general and if you’d live in Germany and you wouldn’t be sued if you make a mistake and accidentally hurt someone?
How to get the crowd moving when you play at venues where they just eat, drink and watch concerts and what on a more open air like stage?
Where we’d play are like 2000-5000 visitors.
I’m not totally up for sticktricks (and can’t even do some) and my bass player finds it very annoying, the crowd however was usually described as just drinking and eating while watching the concerts.
Now I already wonder what we can do (except as playing as best as we can) to make them more interactive? We will mainly play Rock and some Popmusic.
We also had discussions because I would want us to do something that separates us from other bands who look so bored while playing the local gigs here. And we discussed if we already should do merch after the gig despite being newcomers.
The bass player said no except for some Autogram card he’ll hand out after the gig, my idea was a merch stand or tossing some cool looking merch like a few caps into the crowd if we get them to stand up and like us even some used painted drum heads/my sticks (if we play on a more openair Festival like Stage), my bass player doesn’t like even the merch stand idea and seems super shy and insecure about anything (which in real life he isn’t at all).
We are from Germany so we actually have more freedom on what we can do on concerts than for example it would be the case in the US where they’d sue you for almost everything.
What do you think? What except for playing an as best gig as you can would you do in general and if you’d live in Germany and you wouldn’t be sued if you make a mistake and accidentally hurt someone?
How to get the crowd moving when you play at venues where they just eat, drink and watch concerts and what on a more open air like stage?
Where we’d play are like 2000-5000 visitors.
