We’ve just got back from performing at Leo’s Red Lion over Gravesend as part of a weekend festival of music, circus performers, fire breathers, poi and pole dancers.
There is always a bit of worry when you’re playing somewhere new as you never know how it’s going to pan out, sometimes the venue could be an underground cave ran by retarded monkeys that insist you to play for 5mins, while other bands use your equipment to put their pints on your cab like an expensive bar, I’m glad to say, however this wasn’t the case.
Noisy \m/
All the bands were very high calibre and there were a lot of them, with over 48 bands booked for the weekend ranging from a very smartly dressed chap playing acoustic versions of cowboys from hell, transformers and other metal classics through to brutal bands such as Ten Cent Toy, Shreddertron, and Subservience.
The music was spread across 2 stages, one inside and one outside, it was almost as if one of the insane circus freaks had used some of their psychic powers to forecast the shit hot weather on the day. The perfect setting to enjoy a sick pint (a green coloured pint of something that I was too frightened to even go near)
Shorty got Skills
The “sick girls” were also in attendance providing Poi and fire breathing during band performances and an opportunity for dirty perverts like ourselves to ogle at scantily clad women while drooling into our pints.
Apparently, the girls also provided pole dancing later in the evening and a whole lot of other performances that we had to miss, although I’m sure we’ll get to catch them again at some stage.
We were all really impressed with the professionalism of Sick Promotions during the whole event, all the bands were made to feel welcome on arrival by all their staff and the efficiency and calibre of the sound guys really added to give the event something special.
It’s not very often I give props to promotion companies because 70% tend to be utter shite, if youre in an unsigned band looking for gigs or a venue looking to spice up one of your nights with something special give the guys at Sick Promotions a call.....thanks again guys \m/
