Playing at a new venue over the weekend got me thinking about how things would've gone without consciously trying to get the people watching involved.
Yes, the music can and should stand for itself. Certainly turning up with a script full of smarmy one liners and a gig-bag full of inflatable guitars and tambourines to hand out to the audience won't save you if your gears' lousy and you're not rehearsed.
I don't know about you, but when I'm in an audience, I like a band not to take themselves too seriously so if they try to get a few laughs (at their own expense) that will make me warm to them. And that's what we try to do a bit of. On top of that, anything we can do to get a few people (those who show a willingness) involved and up on stage the better.
Probably Saturday would've been good for most people without any of this, if we'd just kept our heads down and kept on strumming. Certainly there will always be some members of an audience (and certain types of venues) where the music is the only element that matters.
But when you want people to film your gigs, visit your website, feel compelled to book you for their own party and (most importantly) tell everyone they know about this band they saw over the weekend....9 times out of 10 it's down to really connecting with the crowd
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