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It worked well, we tried two longer sets a couple of times but it felt like a slog and it was hard to keep the energy up over three hours. With three sets you can bunch similar moods together, have a little acoustic slot at the end of set 2, let the other singers in the band do a couple and just generally shake things up a little.
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My last set usually runs on for nearly an hour though, especially if we are enjoying ourselves.
Rob
FWIW I still like the 'greatest hit' approach, if you don't know that many songs, where if you have something strong in the first set you can use it to close the second or for an encore. By the end of the second set ( this is pubs rather than functions) you may be playing to different people or same people but more drunk and there's been a decent gap anyway. For encores you can re use songs from the first set.
Anywhere we've played with extended hours they usually have a DJ on until the wee hours rather than the band.
"I'm fairly sure any longer and punters find it fatiguing." never thought about that but I think this is very true.
IMHO most punters only really care about the last 20 mins of the night and then complain when you finish.
To us the hassle is driving there, loading in and out and setting up, once we're there we'll play as long as anyone wants us to within reason, playing guitar is not the shitty part of gigging so I see no point in rationing it.
We do have two lead singers though, so stamina is not an issue for us.
We go 2 x 1 hour if requested (for more money), but we would physically struggle to play longer than that.