Where is your favorite setting to perform?
 

As the title states, what setting do you enjoy playing in the most. I will include a poll to make life easier, but if you chose describe why you chose what you did. :thumb:

Note* If you haven't played all of the settings (which most of us probably haven't), or never played a show at all, just pick the one you think would be the best.

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Personally my favorite is playing an outside venue, or hell even a little stage in the middle of a field on a beautiful summer night. Not to hot, everyone's happy, and makes the music even better. I have not performed at any big shows or enormous venues, but I have a feeling it would lose some of the personality. (not that it wouldn't be fun)

My only experiances are outside venues and schools gyms. I prefer the outside venue. When we played that it was friggin' one o'clock in the morning at a cancer walk-a-thon thing. Ours was the only performance that people actually came up to the stage to pay attention to, but it was probably more due to the fact that we were also the youngest act there, lol.

my favourite is the jam room, playing for the people on the couch.

bars can be fun or a giant hassle. being in a relatively small town if we ever play a bar the crowd is 95% personal acquaintances of my drummer's. so it becomes more of a public private party. then again we're not a typical band so it's better that we stack the crowd with friends haha

Not being judged by many is always nice. :shycouch:

everyone gets to be a part of everything in that setting hehe

I had the opportunity to play a gig once, and did rehearse some stuff, but I backed out in the end (owing to work and my inherent sense of stagefright). Had I actually played, it would've been in some small indoor venue (hence the vote). Would've suited me fine - I prefer the intimate atmosphere of bars, cafes and that.

I am not a fan of large venues at all because I have a bit of a problem with stagefright :shycouch:. But I do play small piano recitals regularly and I enjoy those a lot because I really like the more personal relationship you have with your audience. I also play with a friend's band and we've only played indoor and outdoor small venues. So really anything that has a smaller crowd is good for me.

Small venue that's is the best.

That way you can toss blood and feces on the crowd like GWAR.:band:

I like an inside venue, have played some reasonably large places but nothing huge. Outside, my experiences have been pretty bad, horrible weather and audiences filled with olds.
The atmosphere and intimacy of a sweaty dive is great if it has a decent stage and soundsystem.

outside on a warm summer night barbecue jamming with friends and no audience but the night sky

or wherever there's free beer

Inside, nothing cooler than playing in front of 100 people in a humid room over 80 degrees.

Oh yeah sweating is always a nice touch.

I thought outside would be doing much better :(

so true, i've seen bands on summer festivals as well as in small venues, and it has been always more fun in a venue than at a festival.

the few times i've guest sang/screamed, we played in basements, and there is nothing more intense than 30 dudes packed into a small space all jamming.

so yeah, small venues fucking rule.

small indoor venue is best -- with a good PA-
better intimacy with audience -- large shows can be intimidating
if you're not used to it. Our biggest show was when
we opened for Godsmack at coral sky amp in WPB and I was quite terrified
... couldn't hear myself in stage monitors either - we sucked that show for sure

i believe they call those "gay orgies"

hahaha

I've only performed in my garage with my brother during a walk benefit in our garage we got over 50 people inside.

Didn't Harvey Milk say that ?

I've only done one gig, and it was moderately sized, indoor. Too many people for me. I also had trouble hearing myself on the amps, so I sucked. Over 100 people induced stage fright. Small and intimate is best for me.

there's a vast difference between homoeroticism in open fields and homoeroticism indoors; mainly the fact that grass stains come out of bare skin.

rofl! ;p

I like music Festivals, The crowd is diverse, and you can actually see people in the sunlight. A lot of bars and venues are dark and dim, i like that a lot, but going outside to a large park is a nice change of vibration