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What's on your rider?
Posted by Occam on 24 November 2009 - 11:12am.
The Chuck Berry discussion got me thinking: What would Word readers put on their riders - pre-supposing a level of musical success where you'd get what you asked for with a straight face.
Me? Nothing too exotic really. Maybe some Jelly Beans. Some rum perhaps. Some unsalted nuts. Fresh towels. Yogi teas. Some dark chocolate. And maybe a monkey.
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Mr Edward requires two sachets of blackcurrant Lemsip and a 'four-hour digital timer' for measuring the time between Lemsips. In the event Mr Edward is in the building for a period of more than eight hours, more sachets of Lemsip are to be made available, but only in this eventuality.
well ...
towel
molton brown toiletries
power shower
green tea
apples
local cask ale (bottled)
pistachios
I think Mariah had the right idea
kittens and puppies is a BRILLIANT request - is there anything more mood-lifting than kittens and puppies? Maybe a piglet too.
Just get me a pair of
great puppies and you can forget the kittens...
I'd have
a local paper. I have a weakness for local papers. It'd also enable me to open with a topical local comment to get the audience onside.
Ice-cold diet Redbull.
Fresh fruit salad (cold).
A nice bookmark (my Mum collects them)
A limeric about the venue.
Nail scissors.
Some sex.
Local paper
That reminds me of the story (was it an HORA?) told by (insert name of music journo here) who, when going to intervew Mick 'n' Keef, took along a copy of the Dartford local paper for them as an ice-breaker.
Apparently, it worked a treat and the Glims spent the intervew leafing through the paper reminiscing about old times.
Anyone here claim to be the journo in question?
I'd be playing the Barras, so...
Sophie Marceau
Monica Belluci
A time machine (So that I could teleport back to 1983 for Isabelle Adjani and then stop off at 1995 to collect Emmanuelle Beart on the way back)
Juliette Binoche
Peri Gilpin (Roz from Frasier)
6 bottles of Badger Champion
Box of Stowell's white wine (for the ladies)
2 x Tubes of Barbecue Pringles
M&S BLT sarnies all round
Laurel & Hardy DVDs ("Hard boiled eggs and nuts!")
Hard boiled eggs and nuts.
*In addition, I'd have the Tudor crisp factory re-commisioned to produce 4 packets of mint sauce crisps
Hold hard there, Mr B
I think you'll find that Peri Gilpin will be heavily luxuriating in MY dressing room...
Of course, you know this means war, AB
I've been holding a candle for her Rozness since Episode 1, Season 1. Choose your weapon!
Roz fan here...
Good thing about the Word Blog is that you often find out you are not alone!
I've been holding something else
since episode 1, season 1...
Gone too far? I think so.
She's mine I tell you and I'll out-type any man that says otherwise. Cos I'm that kinda guy.
The Halloween Episode on Youtube on 'favourites'?
Taps nose conspiratorially...
I'm sure there must be a support group.
Oh yes.....
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do really think any of these glamorous
actors like Barbeque pringles?
My rider
Matlows Swizzlers with the yellow ones removed and the packs re-wrapped
In 1986
Ours was 25 cans of Red Stripe, a bottle of Tequila, 2 cartons orange juice.
"Why 25 cans?"
"There's 5 guys in the band - you tell the drummer he's getting one tin fewer ....."
We were asked to play Strathclyde's Student Christmas Ball - so we doubled our fee and doubled our rider. They thought that was quite funny, and agreed to it.
The greatest rider of all was the Stooges one :
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html
what was your band, El?
if it's ok to ask.
The Beat Poets
Still operational - although this has been a quiet year, what with one thing and another.
http://www.myspace.com/originalbeatpoets
In my dressing room I'd have...
- Cynthia Plastercaster.
- Marty DiBergi and film crew.
- Support bands The Go-Gos, Sahara Hotnights, Nina Persson, The Corrs (the brother can get his own bloody room) & Susanna Hoffs.
- Kate Hudson.
As there wouldn't be much space left in the room my rider would be quite short:
- Bottles of Jack Daniels (filled with Japanese tea, shhh, it's a secret, you would never get a hard rockin' band such as the Black Crowes pulling a stunt like that...alledgedly).
- Brown M&Ms.
- Wet-wipes to give the old harmonica a once over before use.
- Red Snappers (Mud Sharks will suffice).
- Mars Bars.
A recent rider
A selection of Probiotic Leech Drinks
Yoghurt drinks containing friendly bacteria and live leeches. Passionfruit or strawberry flavour. No supermarket own brands!
A bouquet of rice violets.
A tracheal stencil + scalpels
The artist may wish to perform emergency tracheal surgery on audience members. Stencils should be interesting shapes (NO CORPORATE LOGOS PLEASE!) Surgical tools must be provided by local hospital.
A raw kilo of vomited ivory
This will be checked beforehand for weight and purity.
15ml Gin Oil plus applicator
Jade prawns steamed in hand-sewn pasta
A one litre bottle of Hag Rye
From the William Shakespeare distillery in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Socks
for badger_king's personal usage:
The following items are required.
*Tea making facilities (if any coffee making facilities are present, the gig will be cancelled)
*A selection of "good" tea - Assam, Yunnan, Darjeeling, Ethiopian Lion, etc
*Selection of Chilean rosé wine
*Pic'n' mix
*Spare plectrums (in interesting patterns / colours)
*Hideous patterned boxers (Medium)
*Bee costume
*Chihuahua named Carlos with a rare skin condition
*Iron / ironing board
*13 year old Mexican girl named Juanita to do my ironing
*Juanita's mother to make me cups of tea
*Complete works of Camus
*Mek - a tribesperson from central Western Papua
*62.5 maltesers
*One sock (used)
*Batman wallpaper
That is all.
Peters