covers bands - setlists - post em up....

[Ash96]

We may not get many gigs, as Newcastle area is a real classic rock area, but I just couldnt ever play in a band who play the setlists that most of you have put on here.

I can, it pays my rent so i only have to work 1 day a week.









Also, secretly i love it haha.

[funkyfraz]

We may not get many gigs, as Newcastle area is a real classic rock area, but I just couldnt ever play in a band who play the setlists that most of you have put on here.

Its not the music quality that makes gigs worthwhile, its the reaction you get from the punters, and the atmosphere. I used to think the same as yourself when I played in shred gigs, but I get it now! plus we don't do too many gigs, maybe once a month.

[cm01]

here's ours from this weekend's gigs:

Yellow
Use Somebody
Buck Rogers
Local Boy In the Photograph
Weather With You
Teenage Kicks
20th Century Boy
Many Of Horror
Alright
Where The Streets Have No Name
When You Were Young
Chasing Cars

Singer does 3 acoustic songs before the 2nd half

You Really Got Me
Dakota
Brown Eyed Girl
Stuck In The Middle With You
Sweet Home Alabama
Medley: Twist & Shout / La Bamba / Do You Love Me / Shake A Tail Feather
Faith
Chelsea Dagger / Sex On Fire / I Predict a Riot - full songs but each segued into the next
Mr Brightside segued into
All These Things That I've Done

Encore

Delilah
Play That Funky Music / Superstition medley
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Don't Look Back In Anger

[fastboy]

Here's some just off the top of my head in no particular order:

Female covers band

Sunshine of your love
Unbelievable
Just a girl
Stupid Girl
Only happy when it rains
Chelsea Dagger
You shook me all night long
Whole lotta Rosie
I love rock and roll
Sex on fire
Use somebody
Valerie
Play that funky music
Smile
Just a day
Should I stay or should I go
Zombie
Vertigo
Are you gonna be my girl
Heaven is a place on earth
Brazen (weep)
Ready to go
Love Machine
Gimme some loving
Basket Case
All the small things
One way or another
Teenage Kicks
Ever fallen in Love
Harder to breathe
You oughta know
Slither
Naked
Live and Let Die
Have a nice day
When the sun goes down
Fake tales of San Francisco
Suffragette City
I predict a riot
Are you gonna go my way
Who Knew
U & UR hand
Brass in pocket
Don't get me wrong
Crazy

New male covers band currently being put together

Jenny Don't be hasty
New Shoes
Bubbles
Message in a bottle
hump de bump
Hysteria
Muscle Museum
That girl's a genius
Take you mama
Red morning light
Molly's chambers
She fuckin hates me
Smooth Criminal

There's a load more for both of these bands but my mind has gone blank.......

[bigdawg]

slight change of tack on this one...

What songs get you the most reaction?? It seems round here different pubs = different songs, but mainly down to the age of the clientelle....

[fastboy]

slight change of tack on this one...

What songs get you the most reaction?? It seems round here different pubs = different songs, but mainly down to the age of the clientelle....

Out of my Lot:

I love rock and roll by Joan Jett - Goes down a feckin storm in a pub better then any other cover I've played in various bands.... It even topples stuff like Sweet Child of Mine round my way.

Chelsea Dagger
Whole lotta Rosie
You shook me all night long
Should I stay or should I go
Sex on fire
Suffragette City - Although not everyone knows it, it just gets the whole place rocking and everyone loves the "wham bham thank you mam" and "Sufffffffrrrragette" at the end.

[bigdawg]

thats one that works for us too - I love rocknroll / paranoid / bad reputation and then into a zepellin medley (heartbreaker / whole lot of love / rock n roll - that way I dont have to learn 25 minute solos)

[erictheweary]

out of ours Message to you Rudy probably more than anything else.

Mmm, Pressure Drop goes over well ( I'm amazed so many people know it).

[StageStruck]

Stuck In The Middle - Stealers' Wheel
All Right Now - Free
500 Miles - Proclaimers
Let's Stick Together - Roxy Music

Very obvious, but they do go down very well.

One which surprises me how well it goes down if we play it is Old Time Rock 'n' Roll by Bob Seger. I wouldn't say it's especially good or well known but it seems to hit the spot.


On the other hand though, the other guitarist & bassist in my band came from the era where a few 'slow songs' were the done thing. I've found that except for a few rare occasions, the slow songs can kill an atmosphere stone dead...

[erictheweary]

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One which surprises me how well it goes down if we play it is Old Time Rock 'n' Roll by Bob Seger. I wouldn't say it's especially good or well known but it seems to hit the spot.

in my old band we did that, went over well.

For slow songs depends on the audience. If its basically a seated one then i think as much variety as possible.
For the current band we get a fair amount of people dancing so even a slow intro, too long a chat between songs, having to repair the drum kit (!),etc, can lose the audience.