So....... 2 weeks ago exactly we (Grace and Danger) played at The Smugglers Inn in Pevensey.
Just to set the scene briefly, we had brought about 10-12 people to this pub. Being the bank Holiday weekend, most decent establishments should be busy regardless. For those who don't know the venue, it's not the biggest pub but you get 30 people in there or so it would seem full. More or less every table had people on it, bar maybe 1 or 2. Those that were there when we loaded in all stayed, we have definitely played to less people in the 6 years nearly that we've been going.
The 'man' in question is the landlady's husband and had been drinking all night, he stopped us playing in the middle of our second set, which to start off with is just plain rude anyway but then the following ensues. We happened to be filming the gig and it luckily picked all this up.
We want to let musicians and gig goers alike know how both the landlady and her 'delightful and well mannered' husband treat musicians and bands who take the time do them a service. The last couple of years have been hard enough for musicians and shit like this does not help. We've never witnessed this before in the decade that the musicians individually have been gigging on the circuit.
It's also worth mentioning despite having in writing that they would pay us a certain amount they underpaid us and are completely in breach of contract.
We want to thank the customers that took the time to come see us outside and thank us for what we did and that were also in total disbelief at what had happened. read more