Our first gig
Hi. Heck of the Cow Bros here.
Well, as you know we had our first gig on Sunday, the start of our tour at Manager Nickles farm yeah.
Man! It was great!
The gates opened at 11:00 am but people were waiting from 4am! And there was a lot of people and Cows yeah!
We sold 2500 tickets but at least 5000 turned up!
Thankfully Manager Nickles was well prepared, he watched 'Woodstock' on DVD so he knew what to do yeah.
We had a big stage at the end of our field and there were separate halves for the cows and the hoomans. Of course cows and people could mix in the mixed field but only really brave hoomans did that yeah!
Anymoo, we had a support band! They were a sheep band called 'The Kim Deal three' and they played some pretty good alternative music. They were some really cool sheep but as there were no sheep in the crowd they seemed really nervous.
So we went onstage at 3:00pm. Beforehand we were all really nervous because we had never played in front of such a big crowd, although Lenny seemed calm yeah. Must be that Tibetan meditation yeah!
First onstage was Anubis. Lenny had a pulley system wired up so that he could go onstage by himself. The crowd seemed really confused as they have never seen Anubis before but when he fell over on a speaker cable and Lenny ran out to pick him up and tripped on the cable too, everyone laughed and cheered yeah!
So the rest of us came on and we all forgot our nerves instantly. The crowd was really good and cheered us.
So we introduced ourselves then played the first song which was 'Udder destruction' yeah.
The crowd instantly started stage-diving, hoomans on left stage, and cows on right stage, with the kamikaze hoomans in center stage with the cows!
It was really cool! I staged dived off right stage a few times and actually got my horns stuck in the ground a couple of times yeah!
Crazy Keni tried too while still playing his axe but it became unplugged so he did it only once.
Anymoo, we played all of the songs off our album plus a couple of dub songs we wanted to try. The two dub songs were 'Gimme Jah', and 'Udder destruction dub'. The crowd reacted well to them so we are keen to write more dub yeah!
We also covered 'Sweet Leaf' by Black Sabbath, 'I was made for lovin' you' by Kiss, 'Do the strand' by Roxy music, 'Superbeast' by Rob Zombie, 'Destroy Babylon' by Bad Brains, 'Mirror in the bathroom' by The Beat, 'Take me home country roads' by John Denver, and 'Police truck' by the Dead Kennedys.
The gig lasted 2 hours and we did 3 encores yeah!
At the end of the last song Gunther yelled out 'take cover' so we dived down and then his drum kit blew to smithereens in the biggest explosion I have ever seen yeah! The crowd laughed their heads off but myself and the rest of the band had the wind knocked out of us by the shockwave yeah! Gunther got up and laughed himself silly!
So that was our first gig yeah!
We were really tired after but we had a great time. The crowd were good and there were no problems, although one hooman who had too much calm juice tried to ride 'El Diablo'. He is a huge bull from the neighbouring farm. The hooman managed to get on his back but the last we saw of him was when he was flying through the air towards the pond...I hope he made it yeah!
After the gig we went to special marquee where there were some special guests waiting to give us a party. All of our cow friends were there along with some record company people, the recording studio guys, The Kim Deal three, and OZZY! We were so glad Ozzy came to see us, we didn't know he was coming so it was a nice surprise yeah.
Anymoo, we had lots of calm juice to drink and food and hay. It turns out that calm juice has another name...beer! I like calm juice better though yeah.
The party went on until 8pm. We wanted it to go longer but there were calves in the next field trying to sleep so we called it a day.
Our next gig is planned for the 16th at the nearest city so we are getting ready for that yeah.
See you then!
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