JodyBigfoot wrote:Nah man im british and I plan to migrate to New Zealand, I love it there so much! hope you're having fun!
Yeah it's really different culturally and temperature-wise in New Zealand to England. Going class thanks! In each place/city I've been so far I just turned up at open mic or organized events themselves and talked to the organizers that I made music on a Gameboy. Played 9 so far! One show was quite eventful when the organizer lost it at me at an open mic in Queenstown.
I told the organizer what I was intending to perform with beforehand. He said that was fine, so I set all my gear up and started to play. The crowd loved it!
Around a minute or two in the organizer asked if I was going to sing, I told him nah I just needed it to introduce myself. He came right up to me and told me sternly ' This is NOT a Dance club, turn it off!'. He was a Maori and was quite big, dominant character of a fella too, I was scared shitless though since I was there by myself I had to stand my ground. I didn't know what to say so I just ignored him.
Soon afterwards I seen him pointing at me, flailing his arms around at staff in a really pissed off state. I have no idea what narked him. That said in New Zealand here most acts and performances usually just feature a guitarist and reggae music so it's pretty different to of played electronic music!
Soon enough he came back to me as usual right in my face as I was performing. 'Turn , it down!' he said. By this time I'd usually cave in and given in to what anyone told me to do. I wanted to tell him to piss off though because I'm profoundly deaf, it's just hard to get my words out. Unless you're in this position I can only describe it as you freeze up and stutter your words out. Words just don't come out - and it depends on the situation of stress. In this case I was well out my comfort zone physically shaking with fear.
I thought couldn't just stop playing because the crowd there was dancing. It was an open mic too for pete sake! I just ignored him and continued playing .He did have a last go turning the master volume of the mixer down. I continued to play for a few more minutes before fading the music out. Afterwards an English group said I made their night playing there. 'Music in New Zealand is years behind' they said.
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