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Whoever is most confident is generally the best option. I used to be in a band where the drummer did all the talking between numbers. Nothing beats a good confident at talking lead vocalist as a front man though
”just shut up and sing, give the people their show”
With our previous one I used to do a bit of on stage banter - but with the new one it just doesn't work.
Happy to let her do all the communication - and to be honest I feel now it's more professional if just one person does it - too much noise between band members between songs on stage can become amateurish.
Equally you don't want the folk club thing of a 30 minute talked into to a 5 minute song. Or for the singer to stop on every song so the crowd can sing it for them.
It's a balance, like, innit.
Maybe whoever is singing lead is the one who introduces/ talks before a song? Worked for the Beatles, Queen etc.
Also we evolved our own corny jokes where someone would deliver the joke and we would all shout out the punch line. Finally we rehearsed some songs that just seque into one another so we started one which always resulted in two others and no talking.
like any aspect of the performance some rehearsal and familiarity pays dividends.
It's more the local level where someone rambles on in a monotone about a historic figure you've never heard of for good reason, before singing an ode to the man unjustly sacked for stealing paperclips.
This is going to sound callous, but…………….
I really can’t stand it when a singer introduces as song that they have written with a spiel about how they wrote this song when they were in a really bad place and this and that had happened and how this song was they’re way of coming to terms with it and blah, blah, blah. I’m sorry, but you’re confusing me with someone who gives a fuck. I’m paying to see you, so just sing the fucking song. If you want me to act as your Therapist then you can start by paying me £150 an hour.
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Weirdly though back in the 70s it was Brian May who used to do the between song banter for Queen. I don't know at which point Freddie took over but interesting to note the they were still figuring it out / power dynamic within the band.
Saw Metallica…quite the opposite. They could have fitted another song in their set if they cut out the pointless chat. “Are you alive? Do you feel good to be alive?” etc etc etc Totally disrupts the flow of the set, plus it is boring, boring, boring.
Saw Andy Cairns of Therapy? do a solo acoustic show in a tiny venue. Lots of chat about the songs and the stories behind them. Hugely entertaining, engaging and heart-warming.
Saw Muse, perfectly polished show, but they couldn’t have said more than four words all night. Made it feel impersonal and you might as well have been watching a DVD.
Make of all that what you will.