Because most venues will only pay money to hear bands or singers performing songs that people know.
Bands who play ‘band venues’ usually only play for a few beers/fun. So if your after ££££’s for performing, you perform covers. Simple.
Here’s a band that have been “on the verge of being signed”…….
for about the past 6 years. :roll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itQuW3y3dmU
They are all getting to around 30 years of age now, settling down, having kids, etc. Thousands like them, up and down the country. I actually don’t think they have a bad sound, but I couldn’t tell you what they are singing about if you offered me a tenner to do so.
It’s alright messing about in bands when you are in your teens, or early twenties. But when you start settling down, you can’t be all over the place, out late, and playing for nothing. Reality hits home.
