Remember this thread from the other place, and it sucks. Would love to book you for my Lodge just because it would absolutely bang. Last time we had two quarters of an ABBA tribute act.
Oh honey. I'm so sorry. That sounds like a disaster. But at least you got paid well!
That being said, several of my friends are Freemasons, & while I've never been to an official Freemasons function, they do know how to party otherwise. But I'm in the US, so maybe British Masons are different?
I went to the funeral of a Mason earlier this year (I'm friends with his daughter) & the Masons featured very heavily in the funeral, about 50% of it was his Mason's friends eulogies. Longest & weirdest funeral I've ever been to!
Fucking hell, what a story, the masons sound absolutely grim. This legit follows the logic of a nightmare, where everything you try to do doesnt work and noone seems like a real person
Sorry. All I'm hearing is a wilful refusal to sing Chas and Dave and one man's heroic quest to right that injustice. Might be missing something though.
I remember this story from the other place, and whole thing just confounds me; why hire a singer in the first place? Were they just too cheap and too dim to set up a microphone themselves? Did Karoke John secretly habour a desire to be a lounge singer? None of these questions are worth an answer.
It has the feeling of some kind of folk horror. The lodge made a pact with something that lives in the cellar and demands one night of live singing every year. They always do it and nobody enjoys it because they’re all aware of what happens if the thing in the cellar isn’t entertained.
Hang on, the fiscal geniuses who divined how great Brexit would be for the economy spent a lot of money on something they wouldn't enjoy? That just doesn't seem plausible.
The sweeeet dollar being the only silver lining to this deeply depressing cloud of a gig. At least you got thru it but can sympathise with doing a bad gig (metaphorically, as I might be as bad a singer as 'John'!) when freelance artworking 🙄
I've done sound for a lot of corporate parties, and they often hire bands, and then tell me/the bands to turn all the way down, and then ignore the bands all night. I feel like there's often a disconnect between the person booking the event for their organization and the actual members.
That was shit, I'm sorry! I'm here to tell you it's ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY typical of the masons. At a memorial dinner for my late dad, one of them called his British Jamaican partner of 15 years, whom they'd met many times at events, his CARER to her face in his speech.
Was on a train back from King’s Cross to Cambridge around 2008ish when a bunch of drunken masons got on and … well … longest 45 minutes of my life and they basically tried to kidnap me and I was sure I was getting left dead in a ditch somewhere in Norfolk.
Well, that sure was a journey. I am in an a cappella group myself (The Chromatics in the DC/Baltimore area) but thankfully never anything like this bad. Thanks for the… laughs? 😲😭🤯
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That being said, several of my friends are Freemasons, & while I've never been to an official Freemasons function, they do know how to party otherwise. But I'm in the US, so maybe British Masons are different?
I'm amazed you persevered to the extent you did 😬🤗✌️
Excellent story 🌟
(Though Ain’t No Pleasing You is a banger). 😂💜
Was on a train back from King’s Cross to Cambridge around 2008ish when a bunch of drunken masons got on and … well … longest 45 minutes of my life and they basically tried to kidnap me and I was sure I was getting left dead in a ditch somewhere in Norfolk.
Wonder if one was John?
*I definitely can