Live bands v jukeboxes in pubs

Live bands v jukeboxes in pubs

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anonymous-user

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53 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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Anyone else been subjected to one of those rock cover bands that seem to turn up in loads of pubs nowadays, chronic renditions of the usual suspects, Guns N Roses, Sex Pistols, AC/DC etc, loads of drunks making a nuisance of themselves.
Bring back the jukebox I say and stop these crimes against music.

Skyedriver

17,661 posts

281 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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Heathen!

Quakerhouse, Darlington, seen some top class local bands playing there. No longer live in Darlo and miss the Quakerhouse.

PositronicRay

26,957 posts

182 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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Wrong pubs brother gun.

RegMolehusband

3,959 posts

256 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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Shrewsbury, brilliant local bands with serious musicians playing all sorts in pubs. Try harder to find the right ones in your area.

Roadru77er

473 posts

194 months

Thursday 29th August 2019
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Don’t mind bands jukeboxes are great (if the clientele have good taste?) can’t stand karaoke!

Johnspex

4,332 posts

183 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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I'm sure I'm going to make a poor job of explaining this; surely a jukebox is just playing music as a background noise while you have a drink. A band is something you go to see and is the actual point of going.

Skyedriver

17,661 posts

281 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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Johnspex said:
I'm sure I'm going to make a poor job of explaining this; surely a jukebox is just playing music as a background noise while you have a drink. A band is something you go to see and is the actual point of going.
It's what I go to see and hear which is why I get F-ing furious when there's some tossers end up standing in front of me and ignoring the band, trying to talk over them loudly. It's always been like that, why the F don't they go to another pub or stand at the back, FFS.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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Johnspex said:
I'm sure I'm going to make a poor job of explaining this; surely a jukebox is just playing music as a background noise while you have a drink. A band is something you go to see and is the actual point of going.
The choice
A- The jukebox thumping out Lowdown by Boz Scaggs
B- The band doing a bad rendition of Smoke On The Water
For my ears 'A' every time.

smn159

12,448 posts

216 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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Go and see better bands then or go to a pub that doesn't put on live music

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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smn159 said:
Go and see better bands then or go to a pub that doesn't put on live music
The title of the thread 'Live bands v jukeboxes in pubs' as in my choice out of the two would be jukebox due to the crap bands I've seen in pubs over the last 10 years.

Evangelion

7,640 posts

177 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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I'm with the OP if the band is crap. Obviously if it's a decent band, yes I 'd rather hear that than a jukebox.

And if it's a covers band I won't even be there, I'd rather stay at home and put a record on. (Or whatever people do nowadays.)

untakenname

4,953 posts

191 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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I haven't seen a jukebox in a pub for ages now, back in the early 2000's when digital ones proliferated they used to have thousands of songs available so could put really odd/non suitable tunes on.

borcy

2,578 posts

55 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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Same here, can't remember the last time I saw a jukebox in a pub. Not a fan of either in a pub tbh. I nearly always go to the pub to have a chat and catch up or if on my own watch the world go by. Music playing from wherever doesn't really do it for me in a pub.

RegMolehusband

3,959 posts

256 months

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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I enjoy watching a good covers band in a pub, and there are several such bands around here. The reason I enjoy it so much is that I enjoy watching skilled musicians gelling and playing instruments live. I have to say I've never heard one of them play Smoke on the Water. I would never put a coin in a jukebox that's for sure.

suthol

2,154 posts

233 months

Wednesday 4th September 2019
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Decent covers band yes, tribute band no way.

Local pubs that I have been to here in Oz over the last few years don't have a jukebox they have MTV instead so the punters don't get to choose

dandarez

13,246 posts

282 months

Wednesday 4th September 2019
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One of our locals 'occasionally' has a live band - there is actually a 'modern' style jukebox on the wall - never even given it a second look.

The last time I put money (very little compared to today) in a Jukebox in a pub was when I first entered one, which was a little while back!

I still remember two of them: 'Bend Me, Shape Me (American Breed) and 'I can see for Miles' (Who). Most of the time you didn't need to put money in - others had!

Pubs had live bands back then. I recall a duo called 'Sunfly' who used to have a regular spot at a pub in Oxfordshire in the 70s - they did a f. great rendition of 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'.

Evangelion

7,640 posts

177 months

Wednesday 4th September 2019
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My 'wouldn't cross the road to see a covers band' philosophy only applies when I'm on my own. If there's a bunch of you it's different; if the band's good you can enjoy it, if they're crap you can take the piss out of them.

Indeed, in a pub I was in a few years back, the band and the front row came together to take the piss out of the rest of the audience.

(Admittedly, we outnumbered them.)