My first gig was on the 19th of September 2008, I'd just gathered up enough material to play around 20 minutes of originals and 10 minutes of covers, looking back it was a bad idea to rush playing my first show like that and I think that's what can give many people who have never listened to chipmusic before a bad impression before they've even delved into the "genre"... I dare say countless other artists have rushed playing their first show out of over-enthusiasm too.
Overall though, it was a pretty good performance. I opened the night and was drastically different to all the other bands playing that night. A lot of the 15 year old girls that turned up to listen to pop-punk didn't really get it (and that was the core demographic too) but the small minority of the hardcore kids (guys that listen to Bad Brains, Minor Threat and Descendants etc) really got into it and started running up the walls and shit... One guy bust his face open and went to hospital but I was so nervous I didn't even realise until after the show, ha. Everything else ran smoothly though. I even got paid somehow.