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Last night’s gig…Poor bride and groom!

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RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
edited July 2023 in Live
We’re nearly finished setting up. It’s about 7pm, first set at 7:30pm, all good.

Bride and groom are, I’d say, 50’s? Lovely couple. Groom’s had a few grownup drinks, but seems fairly together….…..until he goes A over T on the step into the marquee.

Guests help him to a chair, get his shoe snd sock off to survey the severity of the injury to the leg he just walloped. Looks quite swollen.

First Dance might not be going ahead as planned.

Fair enough, we’ll do our first set, see how it goes?  Except, now the decision is taken that he needs to go to A&E. NOW.

This is, say, 7:20pm?

Bride decides, oddly, to do First Dance anyway…with her daughter from her first marriage. Sobbing her heart out all through it…

Finish our first, and somewhat subdued, set…The news comes through that he has broken his ankle!

But! “He’s coming back!”


Sadly, despite us postponing our second set for quite a while, the news comes that he needs an operation and will most definitely NOT be back.

Halfway through our second set, very apologetic bride thanks us and says she’s off to the hospital, but says she’ll have another party next year and get us to come back!

As I remarked on the mic, a toast to absent friends is common at weddings…but this is the first one I’ve heard that was in honour of the groom!!


Edited thread title to show some sympathy for the groom too!


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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    I'm not unsympathetic to the bride's plight, but I think "poor groom" might be more apt!
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    Sporky said:
    I'm not unsympathetic to the bride's plight, but I think "poor groom" might be more apt!
    True, true…but I think his alcohol intake contributed …. I know the bride blamed him!

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  • MusicwolfMusicwolf Frets: 3376
    RocknRollDave said:
    I know the bride blamed him!
    Welcome to married life, get used to it.

    https://www.starbelly.me/


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  • SupportactSupportact Frets: 665
    Yeah, that guy is in so much shit... 
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    RocknRollDave said:
    Sporky said:
    I'm not unsympathetic to the bride's plight, but I think "poor groom" might be more apt!
    True, true…but I think his alcohol intake contributed …. I know the bride blamed him!
    That is a fair point... 
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    Well that’s all rather a shame. Best of luck to them though
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    axisus said:
    Well that’s all rather a shame. Best of luck to them though
    Yes, this. They were a lovely couple.



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  • TeyeplayerTeyeplayer Frets: 2811
    Extreme way of getting out of paying the band, screams scam. ;)
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    Teyeplayer said:
    Extreme way of getting out of paying the band, screams scam. ;)
     :) 

    Fortunately, the groom paid us in cash just after we had started setting up.

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  • maltingsaudiomaltingsaudio Frets: 2910
    Anything can happen at a wedding! Poor bloke but you got another gig out of it.

    My current favourite oops is the wedding dj using Spotify for the first dance and the WiFi goes down !
    www.maltingsaudio.co.uk
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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7202
    He'll never hear the end of it. Best thing to salvage the situation is to get divorced now :)
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    maltingsaudio said:
    Anything can happen at a wedding! Poor bloke but you got another gig out of it.

    My current favourite oops is the wedding dj using Spotify for the first dance and the WiFi goes down !
    I use Spotify, but I download the important tracks in advance.

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  • FezFez Frets: 472
    Band I was in years ago once played a mates wedding and the bride's son from previous relationship managed to break his let between the registry office and the reception.
    Don't touch that dial.
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    Rather fortuitously for the band, they’re going to have another go at having the party, same venue next year…same band, same fee.

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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 5615
    Suggested songs for next year:

    Bon Jovi - We All Fall Down
    Oasis - Falling Down
    Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
    Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
    Alanis Morisette - Head Over Feet
    Gloria Estefan - Get On Your Feet
    Paloma Faith - My Legs Are Weak
    Kaleo - Broken Bones
    Linkin Park - Broken Foot
    Linkin Park - Healing Foot
    Michael Bolton - When I'm Back On My Feet Again
    AC~DC - Shake A Leg
    Kenny Loggins - Footloose
    etc.
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  • flying_pieflying_pie Frets: 1767
    BillDL said:
    Suggested songs for next year:

    Bon Jovi - We All Fall Down
    Oasis - Falling Down
    Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
    Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
    Alanis Morisette - Head Over Feet
    Gloria Estefan - Get On Your Feet
    Paloma Faith - My Legs Are Weak
    Kaleo - Broken Bones
    Linkin Park - Broken Foot
    Linkin Park - Healing Foot
    Michael Bolton - When I'm Back On My Feet Again
    AC~DC - Shake A Leg
    Kenny Loggins - Footloose
    etc.
    REM - Fall on me
    Anything by Fallout Boy
    Steps - Tragedy (obviously because the tried on one)
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7086
    edited September 2023

    Tom Petty - Free Falling

    The Bluebells - I'm Falling

    Steve Harley - Tumbling Down

    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • StratavariousStratavarious Frets: 3112
    ^^^^ See how many tunes you can fit in before they clock it,
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    Iron Maiden - Man on the Edge 
    (The chorus just repeats the words “Falling down” :) )

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  • DavidReesDavidRees Frets: 293
    I do not drink at weddings and funerals [but make up for it on other occasions] - it's a risky business that rarely ends well ...
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