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I'm almost sure, there must be a similar thread somewhere, but the search went back with no results...Things NOT to do...
... when getting invited to join a fire-gig
- stay up extremely late the previous night
- take the dodgyest equipment possible
- turn up 20 minutes late
- forget your costume
- when invited: hand out your own phone number/ business cards/ demo-DVD's to promoters
- constantly tell everybody that the payment is so f****ing low, you just did it "just as a personal favour"
- tell every other performer you got proposed double of their pay
- tell the promoters you got proposed 5% of what you actually got and that you're extremely satisfied
- jump out on stage completely off the agreed timeline and run over other performers
- spray kero on everybody, including fellow spinners
- never look at the audience and your mates
- turn your back to the audience 95% of the time
- completely withdraw from the music (i.e. play as slow as possible at psytrance and as fast as possible at classics)
- only show 1% of what you're actually capable of and repeat this 500 times
- drop your stick 20 times and still try to get this one particular move right
- leave without cleaning up after yourself and tell the promoters that you will call them a.s.a.p./ they shall call YOU next time they need a fireshow...
got it? 
, 
and lots of EDITED_BY: FireTom (1167295609)
the best smiles are the ones you lead to 
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA
were you the problem or witness to
sounds like an interesting and yet frustrating time
EDITED_BY: faithinfire (1167168857)
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
Sounds much like the wisdom of experiance to me.
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
enthusiast
360 posts
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Never think 'one more pint and a couple more spliffs won't hurt before I go on'. And then forget everything. Good thing is you won't realise how bad it was til everyone tells you the next day.
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
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your new best enemy
246 posts
Location: over the river, through the woods, USA
you shouldn't try:
drunken neck wraps
flips
partner routines anywhere but sober
gasoline; spinning with, spitting, or huffing
claiming you invented something you saw someone else do the day before, they might be there (you know who you are)
heroin
booking a gig by yourself
flaming devil sticks
pissing off a mcdonalds emplyee when you're a customer.
I'll get there too late if I shorten my stride, I'll get there too soon if I find me a ride, I'll never move forward if I try to hide this path that I've troden one step at a time.
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
you see, i would have said "you shouldn't be a mcdonalds customer in the first place"
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
hahah! you've changed the title to the "nono" list! Nono is m host sister's name!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Lambretta Fanatic
4,997 posts
Location: United Kingdom
Written by: FireTom
- when invited: hand out your own phone number/ business cards/ demo-DVD's to promoters
where is the problem with that?.. why are otehr promoters there exactly?.So many gigs i have got from doing this... got to eat and pay the bills you know!. As long as it is done right thats all.
1,590 posts
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
asking for a big mac in burger king
THE hop Pyro.
(with parents)
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Hitman
985 posts
Location: Gloucester England
I would like to add there is nothing wrong with flamming devilsticks i been devilsticking for 4 years and never had a accident touch wood and they look amazing if u can pull them off
he he i am mike the amazing gloscircus person who is mike.
Officaly an exception to the Poi Boys are Girls Thing
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Don't let your ego argue over billing with the person doing the organising
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the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Written by: PK_Written by: FireTom
- when invited: hand out your own phone number/ business cards/ demo-DVD's to promoters
So many gigs i have got from doing this... got to eat and pay the bills you know!. As long as it is done right thats all.
If you are invited by another fire troupe, then handing the promoter of that event who hired the other fire troupe your information on their time is concidered rude and unethical.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Lambretta Fanatic
4,997 posts
Location: United Kingdom
Written by: PK_
As long as it is done right thats all.
your new best enemy
246 posts
Location: over the river, through the woods, USA
Written by: MikefromGlos
I would like to add there is nothing wrong with flamming devilsticks i been devilsticking for 4 years and never had a accident touch wood and they look amazing if u can pull them off
I've been devil sticking for 12 years. I've had a few accidents, but I don't really care bout em. only people who are crazy (like me) should try them on fire though.
I consider them one of the most dangerous of the fire toys. certain tricks, mostly horizontal ones, the stick can get spinning to a point where it can skip off your hand sticks. while I'm at it, I'd like to add fire nunchucks without knowledge of normal nunchucks to the list. flaming concusions are bad.
I'll get there too late if I shorten my stride, I'll get there too soon if I find me a ride, I'll never move forward if I try to hide this path that I've troden one step at a time.
6,650 posts
leading me to the addition:
- playing (heavy/ fire) nun-chucks in a crowd/ bamboo matted bar, on 4(+) shots of spirits
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
1,590 posts
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
Doing a performance in front of 1000 people with a duo who has £2 glowpoi which are liable to fall apart
Yes, it did happen
EDITED_BY: poig (1167485968)
THE hop Pyro.
(with parents)
Unowned
61 posts
Make a fire sword out of a cardboard tube.
Throw Shellite in a river and light it on fire (i've seen this happen and it was just plain frikkin stupid, not to mention polluting)
6,650 posts
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
6,650 posts
... oogling at the girls on the party - completely rubberfaced and expecting them to jump your lap
... attempting to swallow a fire-sword
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
book burnt toast
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Was just thinking, all those first posts sound like a standard 'Toast gig. Not enough ketamine, but othewise think we tick all the boxes
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
thats what i thought
oh dear - our image is ruined!
GO - TOAST!
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
You had an image?
Ohh.... that slacker hippy one...
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artisan
1,576 posts
Location: Berkshire, UK
splattering the dj with parrafin?
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
spinning wire wool in the wrong plane......
ie - into the cowd - yes ive seen this........
or watching a poi head dissapear off the end of a chain, again into the crowd.......
(i feel i must point out that niether of these inncidents was toast gigs) nor me for that matter!
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Yeah right...
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
this was pre toast actually 2002, you know all hippy........
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Me?!
Ha!
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
yeh - im a hippy
just look at me in all my hippy cloths, and all my lentles and my eco views and my veggy oil van
Im about as hippy as MCP is crap at staff
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
artisan
1,576 posts
Location: Berkshire, UK
plants have feelings too
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