A Bad Night On Stage

Not taken from last night

You know how sometimes musicians have bad nights? That just happened to me last night. I can't really understand it, or why it happens, or what causes it to happen, it just does. I reckon that some artists can chuck it to bad equipment, or lack of practice, or sometimes in our cases, we do a song that isn't ready but go for it anyway. None of those were it last night. It can't be blamed on anything, it simply just didn't work.

The feeling is pretty awful. You're up there, and you're messing with your amp, trying to find where to stand instead, you change your tone a bit, close your eyes, try to get into it, listen to your band mates differently, maybe try to look out into the audience...i suppose everyone has their own techniques about what to do in that situation, and sometimes you're able to snap out of it. Sometimes, it's just one bad song, then the rest of your set is fine. But not last night. From start to end, I just wasn't into it. 

It's not the first time it's happened. But in all the few times it has, i've never been able to pinpoint what caused it. I guess it's normal for the level of musicianship i'm at. I wouldn't be surprised if amazing musicians could pull a trick to get their heads elsewhere, enabling them to play brilliantly. 

When we got offstage, I asked Nuts what he thought and if he agreed that we were really loose and he did. He went on to saying he couldn't hear our drummer, our drummer couldn't hear him, i couldn't hear him much either. So maybe these elements caused us to fuck it up, but whatever the case may be, the good part is that you strive to do better the next time and avoid these types of experiences like the plague! 

We've got 3 sets in 2 different venues this Saturday, let's hope that both of those go really well! The first is a David Bowie tribute night at Alchemy, two sets, and the next is a half hour set at the biggest Filipino festival, Rakrakan. We need to do amazing!