Last summer the landlord of my local decided he was going to organise a mini music festival and get a load of bands to play through the Sunday of a Bank Holiday weekend...
One of the bands he booked was mine, Ketlafish. Since we'd not long got a new drummer, we only had about an hour of material together, which as we were one of about 4 or 5 bands wouldn't be a problem.

Come the Sunday, there is however a bit of a problem: due to one thing or another, the only band playing is Ketlafish; all the others have either pulled out or he's forgotten to confirm them.

We eventually decided that we'd play at about 7, then he'd just put a disco on for the rest of the evening.

So, 7 o'clock comes round, we run through our set of covers, originals, stuff we barely know, and stretch our set to about 65 minutes.

The last echoes of our singer's "Thank you and goodnight" are still dying when the landlord appears.

"You're not finished, are you?"
"We are, I told you we only had about an hour" I told him.
"Do it again!" he asked, in a semi-joking, semi-desperate, semi-youwillnotdenyme voice.

And so it was that we chilled out for an hour, then ran through the entire set again, in the same order. It was better than the first time, because we'd just had a practise - sadly there were about half as many people the second time.

So, that's how I've played in one of the only bands in the world that's been its own support act :)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 9 Feb 2009, 23:31, 3 replies)

It was ace, though.
Well, I enjoyed it thoroughly.
( Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 0:54, closed)

I've been clicking loads of QOTW posts today
just in defiance of your insistance you have to wade through ones I've liked on your friends feed.

Apart from the occasional bored reading of many in a go I click very few usually and take great offense at the fact you didn't believe me on this/confused me with my missus.
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 1:22, closed)

Well you can never have too much of a good thing.
IMHO
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 9:41, closed)