Heading out to go load gear soon, so I'll make this quick.
We're a 2 piece instrumental metal band, I like to call our genre "Cthulhu doomnoise." The guy who does my tattoos put us in touch with a bar owner who was trying to put together a metal show to benefit a friend of his who was in a motorcycle crash. Cool, we're in! Show is in 2 weeks, short notice, but whatever.
No fucking word from the venue owner until 2 nights ago, and now we're the ONLY metal band on the bill. Before us is a folk/jazz group, and then a party rock rent-a-band style group is doing 90 minutes before us. Nobody wants to bring their own gear, so everyone asked us for drums and amps. We got so fed up with waiting on show details from the owner that was said "fuck this." Owner has done 0 promo or anything, I can't even find websites for the other bands playing.
Now we're just gonna show up with 2 guitars, no drums, and play some Sunn style shit. OR, if the vibe is really bad around 1AM (when we're supposed to go on), we'll just plug our pedal boards into the drummer's switch and play Mario Kart on stage and fuck with the noises from that and call it art.
Fun times.
Update: first band is on and they're a Chicago style blues band and I have no idea what we're doing here.
With custom made 'white power' symbols...I dunno. We let fucking Conflict know they weren't welcome in Canada for having an anti Muslim immigration song from 2003 and other generally dodgy shit. I can't imagine letting something like that fly
Oh yeah, just a totally normal and cool thing to do. The guy got reddit brain before reddit even existed lmao
I just added an edit. That's nuts toe that shit would fly at all. We're PC as all fuck
I was nowhere near as politically aware back then as I am know, but it really didn't sit right with me.
There's no fucking way I'd share a stage with him today.
Didn't mean it as a personal judgement at all, just that he'd even be allowed on a stage without getting a beatdown is weird. Metal is different too
Did not take it as that, no worries
It definitely is, yeah. I love the music, but the older I get the more disillusioned I get about the scene.