What is the FIRST song in your gig setlist?

Flanging_Fred

We change things around pretty often but recently we’ve tried:

Miserlou going into Runaway (Del Shannon)
You shook me all night long - AC/DC
Another Girl, another Planet - The Only Ones
Teenage Kicks - Undertones

newi123

We had been in on Hammer to Fall, but last few gigs we`ve changed to the rocky version of Boys of Summer - breaks the audience in gently to the 80s and 90s rock that`s coming, and we all know it well, so in the immortal words of one Mr E Blackadder `we`re not at home to Mr Cockup`

exocet

Love Foolosophy - Jamiroquai 

Chris_J

Midnight Train by David Rawlings

smfacer

Pretty much always start, appropriately enough, with 'Start' by the Jam, which segues seamlessly (ish) in to the Stones - 'Honky Tonk Women'

pmbomb

Bohemian Like You Dandy Warhols

hollywoodrox

bloodandtears said:

Quite often it's DLR's Just Like Paradise.. and occasionally it can feel tinged with irony.

Sounds like a cool gig too . 

hollywoodrox

NickB said:

Midnight Rambler - The Rolling Stones.

Awesome I went to like the comment but had already liked it so it erased the like .

Dominic

A bit cliche naff but it used to be 'Boys are back in Town ' and if it wasn't then it became the 2nd set opener

bloodandtears

hollywoodrox said:

bloodandtears said:

Quite often it's DLR's Just Like Paradise.. and occasionally it can feel tinged with irony.

Sounds like a cool gig too . 

I think you'd enjoy our set.. 

RocknRollDave

Quite often, it’s whatever first dance the bride and groom have asked us to learn. This weekend it will be:

Aerosmith / I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing.

….and I have to sing it. Gawdelpus.

Reverend

This currently

wingo84

Just started a new 80s band. Our first song is Sledgehammer. 

Love that impact after the shakuhachi flute intro. 

Nitefly

Dominic said:

A bit cliche naff but it used to be 'Boys are back in Town ' and if it wasn't then it became the 2nd set opener

You've just reminded me, @Dominic - I once formed a band for a works Xmas do, and we opened with Laurel & Hardy's "Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia", which we segued into "Boys are back in Town".  

Dominic

Nitefly said:

Dominic said:

A bit cliche naff but it used to be 'Boys are back in Town ' and if it wasn't then it became the 2nd set opener

You've just reminded me, @Dominic - I once formed a band for a works Xmas do, and we opened with Laurel & Hardy's "Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia", which we segued into "Boys are back in Town".  

on the trail of the Lonesome Pine

rockmonster

 We have opened with Rain by The Cult for ever but recently we’ve changed to Dont believe a word for some inexplicable reason. It’ll never last lol!

Second half always starts with Lizzy’s Are you ready coz our vocalist likes to stir up the punters by shouting, Are you ready for part two? Are you ready? Are you ready?  
Bless him! Lol!

rich75

More often that not we start with Somebody Told Me by The Killers. We actually brought that into the set specifically to be the opener and have an impact right from the start. It always seems to do the job.

If we don't play that then we would probably open with something like Chelsea Dagger. 

Bezzer

In the "blues" band / "power trio" it's Scuttle Buttin'

In Aventail it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9HX004l30E

the_jaffa

Last night for us it was Sense by The Lightning Seeds and Terry Hall

Went down really well

uncledick

Bohemian Like You.