Excuse Me.. are you the 5 P.C. Band?
Played a gig at Braddell Heights CC today.. It’s good money I tell you. Initially we were promised $100 per person for 4 songs. Then due to a shortage of funds, they have to cut it by half so it’s $50 per person. Ok, to me this is still the best paid gig I ever did anyway so doesn’t really bother me that much.
Thing is, we only got together to practice yesterday and we only managed to tie down 3 songs. And they insisted we play 4. So I suggested “Stand By Me” (no, not the Oasis one) out of sheer desparation. I mean, it’s only 4 chords. And I can take it out of the wedding gig repertoire. Anyway, while we were waiting for our turn, they told us they servrely overran and said we had to cut down to 3 songs. We were like, thank God. But when we were about to go out, they told us we could only play 2 songs. So we ended up playing 2 songs for 50 bucks. Beat that. And the rate we are paid per song ended up equal to the amount we were promised in the first place. Haha. God is good.
Anyway the story of the 5 P.C band was that on the order of events sheet, they put us down as a 5 piece band.. and it’s written as 5 pc band. Then while we were waiting, the emcee came and like asked us: “Excuse me, you are the 5 P.C. band is it?” I was ready to laugh. Haha. And Regina replied “5 piece.. 5 piece”. Haha. Anyway we decided we needed an impromtu name. We boiled it down to “The Gabriels”, “Regina And The Sunshine Band” and “Presence” (cos we were supposed to play the song Iris, which reminded us of the song Presence). Yeah.. we ended up going with Presence.
So ladies and gentlemen.. presenting to you…. PRESENCE
Oh.. and they gave us NewWater to drink.. lots of it.. check it out
