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stalling/prolonging your set

ever had to do it? how do you handle it?
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

I don't mean this as snark, but...write more songs?
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

Play slower.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

"Hey guys, let's play [song]."
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

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Play slower.
yes.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

We had to turn a 50-60 min regular set into 2x 1hour sets once.... we basically did a few extra covers (that we'd dropped previously) a couple of 'extended mixes' added a couple of longer instrumentals ... we still failed and they only paid us half what we were supposed to get.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

the longer the audience waits, the drunker they get, the anticipation builds and it usually works in favour of the band.
I saw Neuraxis open for Martyr a couple years ago and they were well over an hour late, they hit a deer on their way to Vancouver (Canadian touring eh) and fucked up their van. still an amazing show, nobody cared that it was delayed.
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Quote Originally Posted by melx View Post
We had to turn a 50-60 min regular set into 2x 1hour sets once.... we basically did a few extra covers (that we'd dropped previously) a couple of 'extended mixes' added a couple of longer instrumentals ... we still failed and they only paid us half what we were supposed to get.
this is the sort of thing i was talking about.


oh, shit, that sucks. ours isnt QUITE as bad, 1 hour set turning into two 40 minute sets. going to try to throw another cover in, for a total of two, all others original. shouldnt be an issue, just wanted to see how yall have handled it.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

im going to milk the atmospheric song break pedalnoise for all its worth.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

get a good tunrntableist/dj for some show mixing as intro and inbetween
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

Think about baseball. Or squeeze the tip real hard.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

Always do a dry run at practice and time it to make sure it will fit the bill.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

Talk to the audience, start a dialogue, tell stories, instrumental/looped intro/outro, samples... I've used all these for a solo set.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

i know this is going to sound crazy but.... improvise?
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i know this is going to sound crazy but.... improvise?
thought about this too. we are pretty decent at jamming in interesting ways, in my opinion. could get wanky though.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

audience participation, iow, teach them a song.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

that works for the decemberists all right, but no for us really. actually, the ideas are forming....
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

Tell dick jokes.
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Tell dick jokes.
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Re: stalling/prolonging your set

Occasionally on tour in Australia..

(unwanted gigs in towns halfway between other towns) we have had to do sucky gigs in exchange for an overnight room/little pay.. which instead of our normal 40 minute set.. would be two split 1 hour sets...

We just added a handful of obscure pop covers.. let out bass player sing/play solo for a few songs of his own side project stuff.. a little extra banter/get to know your audience and just finish 5 mins early haha and start 5 mins late(what are they gonna do) which seem just about enough to get by... We have twice as many origianals of old songs that noone is ever keen to dust off which would have solved things..
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