"do we have time for one more?"

[apekillman]

Play for 30 minutes if you want, play for 40 minutes if you want...

Just don't turn a 25-30 minute set into a 45 minute set by rambling on and/or telling lame jokes between songs. If you want to be a comedian or if you want to do spoken word poetry fuck off to some other venue where I don't have to see it.

A tiny bit of "this song is called" or "this is our last song, check out our merch table" or "1 - 2 - 3 - 4" is fine but that's about it.

unless youre a hardcore band.  then, please by all means, blather on and on and on about the scene and the brotherhood and the cattle slaughter ad naseum!

[RacerX]

"do we have time for one more?" doesn't piss me off nearly as badly as "we're gonna wait for some more people to show up."

Fuck you, bill says doors @ 7 / show's @ 9, start the fucking show already! 

That one can also set the domino effect that leaves the last band with no way out of a shortened set. 

[neighbor664]

Put one of these on the club's P.A.

[Danny G]

^^^

Problem solved. That or one of those time dials they have on lights in climate controlled storage facilities.


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[cat shepard]

No.

[Dr.Zayus]

I think it's okay to ask the sound guy if you have time for one more. Sometimes shit's running ahead of schedule...Rarely, but it happens...Or, if everyone is obviously there to see your band and nobody else brought anyone. You SHOULD play longer.

[natehusky]

That ain't playing by the rules .

[clockwork green]

It's usually only an issue when there are way too many bands (yet another reason to dislike festivals). If one or two run a little late, then band 5 or 12 is going on Tuesday morning.

We've always had problems fitting our songs into 30 minute sets. We have too many 12-20 minute songs so it never fits that well. At some shows we've tried to set up faster so we could get a few extra minutes to accommodate a certain set.

[James1214]

I would much rather have people tell me that they wished we played more, and that they are stoked on the band, than walking out for a smoke or taking a piss. I think 35-40 is a good general length for a band. what gets me is when other bands take their sweet time getting on and off stage. If you take 10 mins to set up and break down then play 50 mins, if it takes a half hour then you get a 30 min set.

[Chovie D]

for rock music 30 minutes ...a good punk band can get it done in 20. Ive seen Dwarves sets that were 10 minutes and kicked more ass than a 3 hour stadium show.

country bands will play for four hours and not repeat a song. but they are the only band on the bill and take a coule breaks...and of course its all covers.

My favorite is when the super lame nu-metal band that just played before you unloads all their stuff off right in front of the stage, then spends a half hour taking apart their rack drum set on the "dance floor"...fucking kick that shit right out of my way.

[mawso]

Otherwise, do you not have a phone in your pocket with which to check the time?

checking your phone on stage is a really shitty look

[clockwork green]

I don't think most people care today since nobody under 30 wears a watch any more.

[Jake]

An hourglass would be totally DOOM though. Or a halfhourglass.

[liquidsmoke]

haha yes a halfhourglass! Getting one!

I checked the time on my phone on stage during our last 2 shows. It would please me greatly if someone in the audience found that to be lame. I think I'm going to wear a Grateful Dead shirt next show.

[mortlock]

i can see where an audience member could see a dude on stage check his phone and get the wrong impression.

[mawso]

I don't think most people care today since nobody under 30 wears a watch any more.

when i did it, i didn't hear the end of it!

i was only trying to make sure we finished on time - but everyone thought i was checking my texts

these days i just ask the sound guy if we have time for one more

[moose23]

That ain't playing by the rules .

It's rock'n'roll, there's not supposed to be any rules.

We just time our sets in the practice room and play with no heed for time, if something goes wrong we drop a song and that's about it.

[Cursed71]

Whatever happened to rehearsing a set at a desired length, and then playing the set.  If you practice a 30 min set then the live one should be about that long... without looking at a phone, watch, hourglass, annoyed sound guy etc.

[RacerX]

Whatever happened to rehearsing a set at a desired length, and then playing the set.  If you practice a 30 min set then the live one should be about that long... without looking at a phone, watch, hourglass, annoyed sound guy etc.

Word. Unless you're prone to irregular outbursts of jamming, that works.

[natehusky]

[Chovie D]

Ive always wanted to stop mid song to take a cell phone call....I think that would be pretty funny.

The hourglass idea is brilliant..."when the sands of time have passed thur this hourglass, our mighty work shall be done!"

or....they could do like at the oscars and if you start going over your set time, they start playing "baby Got Back" at increasing volume until you get the hint.

Is that MOss?(above)

[Discö Rice]

Yob, Chovis.

[MichaelZodiac]

Work out a set in the rehearsal room and time that. Definitely support bands need to do that. Headliners can play as long as they want to in my book, if you lose focus, go outside for a minute.

And especially Yob gets to play as long as they want too. I'll still be nailed to the floor being in riff-heaven.

[Metal and Beer]

I wonder if bands ever time their set in the jam room, like the set they're gonna play at a show? You know, see how long that is...

[Cursed71]

Well yeah, of course YOB can do that.  But I think at the beginning of their live roadburn 2010 album they start with Mike saying "we'll be playing 4 songs total time 1 hour" or something like that. So...yeah, it's rehearsed.  They practiced a predetermined set, and kept pretty close to the time they said they would play when doing it live.  That's all I was sayin'.  Also unless you are YOB keep it short and sweet.