Guys,
I just had to post this and get it off my chest and to also assure you all that if you get to thinking that your singer sucks and it gets you down, then you can take comfort in the certain knowledge that there is a more stupid specimen out there, because our band has got the world's stupidest human being for a lead singer!
This guy can never turn up less than an hour late to every gig we do, he only ever has to set up his own mike stand and monitor and a set of stage lights and every week we are still waiting for him to plug his mike in for a sound check.
So, last Saturday we were to play a wedding for people who were friends of the singer and the hotel was no more than 500 metres from his house. What could go wrong? - He even managed to turn up only 15 minutes late which was a miracle.
HOWEVER, at 9:30 when we were supposed to get on stage in readiness to begin the first set, the singer is seen frantically tallking to the DJ. He has only just remembered that the bride and groom gave him a CD for us to play their "First Dance" from and he has left it at home. The DJ obviously does not have a copy of it because at 9:40 the singer has disappeared and there is no sign of him.
By 10pm he is still not back and many people are getting impatient for the dancing to start. At 10:10 we ring him and he says he is already on his way back - baring in mind that he only lives 500 metres away.
He arrives back at 10:25 with the CD which he hands to the DJ. The DJ puts the song on and when the bride starts dancing she starts wagging her finger at our singer - not because of how late it was - but apparently she had made a special request to him months ago for the band to actually learn it and play it live - He didn't even mention this to us and didn't tell her he didn't want to learn it as it was a female vocal - and these are supposed to be good friends of his!!!
It turns out that when he got home he turned the house upside down and could not find the CD they had given to him. He then remembered he had a CD burner and lucklily for him last week he had a broadband connection put in, so he spent his time searching for the MP3 and then burned a copy of the song which is why it took him so long to get back to the hotel.
Rest assured that will be the last time that we EVER allow him to have any involvement in organising a wedding even if it is to be his own!!!
Liam
I just had to post this and get it off my chest and to also assure you all that if you get to thinking that your singer sucks and it gets you down, then you can take comfort in the certain knowledge that there is a more stupid specimen out there, because our band has got the world's stupidest human being for a lead singer!
This guy can never turn up less than an hour late to every gig we do, he only ever has to set up his own mike stand and monitor and a set of stage lights and every week we are still waiting for him to plug his mike in for a sound check.
So, last Saturday we were to play a wedding for people who were friends of the singer and the hotel was no more than 500 metres from his house. What could go wrong? - He even managed to turn up only 15 minutes late which was a miracle.
HOWEVER, at 9:30 when we were supposed to get on stage in readiness to begin the first set, the singer is seen frantically tallking to the DJ. He has only just remembered that the bride and groom gave him a CD for us to play their "First Dance" from and he has left it at home. The DJ obviously does not have a copy of it because at 9:40 the singer has disappeared and there is no sign of him.
By 10pm he is still not back and many people are getting impatient for the dancing to start. At 10:10 we ring him and he says he is already on his way back - baring in mind that he only lives 500 metres away.
He arrives back at 10:25 with the CD which he hands to the DJ. The DJ puts the song on and when the bride starts dancing she starts wagging her finger at our singer - not because of how late it was - but apparently she had made a special request to him months ago for the band to actually learn it and play it live - He didn't even mention this to us and didn't tell her he didn't want to learn it as it was a female vocal - and these are supposed to be good friends of his!!!
It turns out that when he got home he turned the house upside down and could not find the CD they had given to him. He then remembered he had a CD burner and lucklily for him last week he had a broadband connection put in, so he spent his time searching for the MP3 and then burned a copy of the song which is why it took him so long to get back to the hotel.
Rest assured that will be the last time that we EVER allow him to have any involvement in organising a wedding even if it is to be his own!!!
Liam
