Your "top tip" please.......

monquixote

Take a water bottle with a sport cap

digitalscream

If you're going to be gigging regularly, keep a £20 note in your toolkit (you do take a small toolkit, don't you?).

It's amazing how you forget it's there until an emergency, and suddenly it's like winning the lottery.

ESBlonde

digitalscream said:

If you're going to be gigging regularly, keep a £20 note in your toolkit (you do take a small toolkit, don't you?).

It's amazing how you forget it's there until an emergency, and suddenly it's like winning the lottery.

This is a good idea. I have done similar except I have hidden the cash in the car. It's then more available for all sorts of occasions. I guess if you lift share or use the bands van, your plan works better. Always ensure you can afford to get home if the gig doesn't pay cash on the night.

GavRichList

Go to your GP, get them to prescribe you Valium, and try not to dribble on your fretboard.

David5150

Loads of water to drink

Warm up your fingers, back, shoulders and knees with some stretches

Snacks for after the show

Most important - bring a huge smile and show it off to your audience and make eye contact

ICBM

Also, noticing that you are in Herefordshire, and that you're playing a village hall so it's not going to be a metropolis like Hereford, Leominster or even Ledbury, make sure you take your own groupies since the local ones are a bit scary.

Fuzzdog

Don't forget to take your mobile phone out of your pocket and turn it off, or you might end up serenading the audience with some rather interesting sounding noises at high volume.

Never done that, myself.  Nope.  Never.  :-\"

thebreeze

This is fantastic everyone - thank you.  It's a big help already.  Really looking forward to it, if a little nervous.

Keep 'em coming!

bluechargeboy

Don't nervously drink too much beer beforehand.

octatonic

Rock out with your cock out.

This isn't the olympics- just get up, play as well as you can, have fun & be nice to people afterwards.

hugbot

I try to have a nice little snooze after soundcheck.

mike_l

Don't get pissed until the gig is over.

Don't shag the first groupie who throws herself at you. The better looking ones hang back. So I'm told.........

Panama_Jack666

My top tip is have 14 pints of strong ale before hand.

djspecialist

Panama_Jack666 said:

My top is have 14 pints of strong ale before hand.

Brought to you by the William Hague school of gig preparation.

HAL9000

...and remember, it's shirt first, then jacket, then guitar - never the other way round...

meltedbuzzbox

dont get caught up in a list of worries

just enjoy yourself, the rest will fall into place

EricTheWeary

HAL9000;883636" said:

...and remember, it's shirt first, then jacket, then guitar - never the other way round...

I read that as shit first, then jacket... but it still works.

pintspiller

mike_l said:

Don't get pissed until the gig is over.

i used to have a two-pint rule when i was younger. i did one gig a few years ago where i had two pints beforehand and was that bad that i swore i was going to get the sack from the band. i felt so out of place and unprofessional. mind you, i remember one gig, when i was younger, where i was driviing and had drunk about ten gallons of coke and ended up half assaulting a guy

nocasternoproblem

Remember to breathe...and try to keep your shoulders relaxed, if you get tense your shoulders tend to hunch up, keep them loose and your body gets fooled into thinking you're fine. Good luck!

lloyd

EricTheWeary said:

HAL9000;883636" said:

...and remember, it's shirt first, then jacket, then guitar - never the other way round...

I read that as shit first, then jacket... but it still works.

Take bog roll to the less salubrious venues, they never have any and you always need a shit before hand, well i do.