Halloween gigs

vasselmeyer

Ok, we're booked for halloween and I'm a grumpy twat when it comes to dressing up. Any costume suggestions that take minimal effort, look reasonable and still allow you to play freely?

Also...songs? Maybe...
Ghostbusters
Spirit in the Sky

Any more?

Roland

An undergraduate university gown is easy to play in. Silly hat and green face paint optional.

Monster Mash is easy. It just relies on the singer putting on a silly voice.

p90fool

We get booked every Halloween and we think it's the audience's job to dress up, the band just dress like a band.

not_the_dj

Time Warp. 

RocknRollDave

p90fool said:

We get booked every Halloween and we think it's the audience's job to dress up, the band just dress like a band.

They would probably appreciate it if you dressed up too. 

not_the_dj

I've done ones with a bandana with skulls on and a rubber bat hanging from my guitars headstock. The singer had a bit of face paint, just an little effort is all that's required.

RocknRollDave

Thriller
People Are Strange
Somebody's Watching Me
Zombie
Shakin All Over

EricTheWeary

Last Halloween we played one as Skalloween. Only really makes sense if you're in a ska band though. Shared the bill with a children's magician. 

RocknRollDave

I did two x 1 hour Halloween CD's for Frankie and Benny's years ago....f#cked if I can remember what was on them now though....

p90fool

RocknRollDave said:

p90fool said:

We get booked every Halloween and we think it's the audience's job to dress up, the band just dress like a band.

They would probably appreciate it if you dressed up too.



We're already scary looking.  

relic245

Psycho killer goes down well on haloween 

steamabacus

Not very well known, but Bob Calvert's 'We Like To Be Frightened' is perfect ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VueT0_Q7fW8



8-X

PolarityMan

Ghost of perdition

ICBM

Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
Ghost Town - The Specials
Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath
Funeral Of Hearts - HIM
Grimly Fiendish - The Damned
Ghostdancing - Simple Minds
 Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (possibly a tad optimistic...)

anything from the Nightmare Before Christmas Revisited album

Trude

I'm doing a couple of Halloween gigs.  We all have matching Ghostbusters t-shirts, so that's the costume done.  I might break out a skeleton onesie if I'm feeling like stepping things up.  My 6-year old wanted to be the Grim Reaper this year, so I can probably borrow his scythe if I ask nicely!  

Song wise, we have a three tune medley of:
- Monster Mash
- Ghostbusters
- Ghost Town

Plus I'm going to do Fire by Arthur Brown (he of the crazy world), and Timewarp is already our usual 2nd set closer, so that's in the bag.

Thriller is best left to the DJ I reckon - too much work by half to do that one justice in a guitar band...

RocknRollDave

Found my Halloween CD lists:

Halloween 2003-01

1. Michael Jackson – Thriller
2. Bobby “Boris” Picket & the Crypt Kickers – Monster Mash
3. Screamin’ Lord Sutch – Murder In The Graveyard
4. Theme from “The Munsters”
5. Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters
6. Doors – People Are Strange
7. Backstreet Boys – Everybody
8. Specials – Ghost Town
9. Theme from “Tales From The Crypt”
10. Theme from “The Addams Family”
11. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
12. Little Shop of Horrors – Feed Me
13. Theme from “Twilight Zone”
14. Gareth Gates – Spirit in the Sky
15. Bach – Toccata and Fugue
16. Santana – Black Magic Woman
17. Wings – Live & Let Die
18. Chris Rea – Road To Hell (Part 2)

 

 

Halloween 2003-02

1. Phantom of the Opera Overture
2. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
3. InXS – Devil Inside
4. Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
5. Queen – A Kind of Magic
6. Janie Jones – Witches Brew
7. The Who – Boris The Spider
8. Doors – Riders On The Storm (Ibizarre Mix)
9. Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
10. Aqua – Halloween
11. Rocky Horror Picture Show – Timewarp
12. Philharmonic Orchestra – O Fortuna
13. Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
14. Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra
15. Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell
16. Brainbug – Nightmare
17. Nerf Herder – Theme from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”
18. Frank Sinatra – Witchcraft
19. Clannad – Theme from “Harry’s Game”

 

 

JayGee

vasselmeyer said:

Ok, we're booked for halloween and I'm a grumpy twat when it comes to dressing up. Any costume suggestions that take minimal effort, look reasonable and still allow you to play freely?

Also...songs? Maybe...
Ghostbusters
Spirit in the Sky

Any more?

I have a white lab coat with lots of faked up blood and gore, a stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, and a clip-board (obviously I put that down when I start playing...) and become Herr Doktor von Rockenrohl, controversial pioneer of desktop neurosurgery and author of the definitive text on field expedient lobotomy. I really must get one of those head worn reflector thingies that doctors on old American films always seem to have...

therose789

I once played a Halloween gig dressed as a slice of cheese. It wasn't tremendously easy. 

starwarsnosebleed

Tough cheddar!

DulcetJones

Spooky, I mean the song Spooky - by Classics IV, simple but effective and open to being given a rock upgrade.  I made the mistake one year of being a rasta, the heavy dreadlock wig was like having earplugs in, muffled the sound badly.  Don't be a rasta.  All the other suggestions are great here, played most of them.