My favorite!!! The rule is you can't bring a power generator... it has to be taken from an electrical outlet, otherwise it is not guerilla.

IKEA:

Ty Segall Show:

Wendy's:

Pretty sure no one else is doing it like this.

The rock n roll madness carried on when neighbours complained and the police were called. I once read Kerrang's list of crazy rock n roll stunts. It included the 2003 Darkness act at Reading Festival when the singer got everyone to stick their thumbs up instead of their middle fingers. I despair with them.

The Pulsebeats said:

This is amazing stuff.

You've gotta love how the mainstream music press is completely unaware of where any sort of pulse is. The NME's reaction is, "They put a gig on in their house! Who puts a gig on in their house?! Crazy!"

Bring on more Ikea gigs. Love it.

Didn't Pete Doherty start by doing Guerilla gigs in The Albion Rooms?

This is amazing stuff.

You've gotta love how the mainstream music press is completely unaware of where any sort of pulse is. The NME's reaction is, "They put a gig on in their house! Who puts a gig on in their house?! Crazy!"

Bring on more Ikea gigs. Love it.

Heh. Then that is probably why it sounds familiar... Thanks!

For some reason, I thought it was a cover (probably because they played covers in the other videos).

Good tunes. 

Mike Humsgreen said:

Check out the first Hideout comp! I'm pretty sure the rule on those records was no covers :p

The Ungodly 77s said:

The song you played at the bikini bar, I know I heard it before. Who originally did it and what is the name of the song?

thanks,

Will Crum said:

The Wendy's gig was the first guerilla thing we EVER did, and the guy who filmed it is sitting on the footage doing nothing (despite his promise to see more.) Sure it will see light of day at some point. Here's another one y'all might like:

Check out the first Hideout comp! I'm pretty sure the rule on those records was no covers :p

The Ungodly 77s said:

The song you played at the bikini bar, I know I heard it before. Who originally did it and what is the name of the song?

thanks,

Will Crum said:

The Wendy's gig was the first guerilla thing we EVER did, and the guy who filmed it is sitting on the footage doing nothing (despite his promise to see more.) Sure it will see light of day at some point. Here's another one y'all might like:

The song you played at the bikini bar, I know I heard it before. Who originally did it and what is the name of the song?

thanks,

Will Crum said:

The Wendy's gig was the first guerilla thing we EVER did, and the guy who filmed it is sitting on the footage doing nothing (despite his promise to see more.) Sure it will see light of day at some point. Here's another one y'all might like:

A local band in my little town just did this a few days back: guerrilla show at the local Salvation Army (in Ann Arbor, Mi). I think many of the instruments were toys and things the store had "on the shelves". His band is called The Rainbow Vomit Family Band, but they are calling themselves the Junkyard Hangover Band in this video (probably because they were hung over and playing crap at the thrift store).

This is so cool, man. My town needed my old band to do this in a bad way, but we didn't have the balls. I think you've inspired me!

i cannot tell you how many kinds of happy this makes me.

 

here in st. john's NL there have been a couple guerrila shows in Bannerman Park. they run an extension cord out to this little gazebo. (i actually missed these shows unfortunately.)

 

oh, and a blue dano 56, fuck yeah. mopey play a redburst 63, a white 56 pro, and i myself have a tangerine dano pro tuned to D standard.

For the whole security thing, my state of mind is always to act like you own the place and people don't give you trouble, especially when you tell them that higher management set the gig up. The guerilla show thing is so new (no one else has the balls to do it) that I have yet to encounter ANYONE that has a clue what we're doing.

duke cottonhead said:

how did you get your amp past security? if i tried that, they'd take me for a terrorist. you naughty boys!

i cannot tell you how many kinds of happy this makes me.

here in st. john's NL there have been a couple guerrila shows in Bannerman Park. they run an extension cord out to this little gazebo. (i actually missed these shows unfortunately.)

oh, and a blue dano 56, fuck yeah. mopey play a redburst 63, a white 56 pro, and i myself have a tangerine dano pro tuned to D standard.

The Wendy's gig was the first guerilla thing we EVER did, and the guy who filmed it is sitting on the footage doing nothing (despite his promise to see more.) Sure it will see light of day at some point. Here's another one y'all might like:

Cool,

  If someone did that at one my shows I would be mad a first, but totally into it after a minute or two. And yeah, I'd just be pissed I didn;t think of it ; ) Great videos !  

~T 

Will Crum said:

Well, we had our equipment in the shitter.. so no #2's. Though, the folks takin a piss loved it all.. then after a few minutes the bathroom got so packed you couldn't do anything in there except dance.

I'm not sure what Ty thought. Probabaly happy but also pissed he didn't think of it. I have a friend (who is a journalist) call the venue the next day. She spoke to the owner and they were happy about being crashed. I always expect cops and venues to get mad, but no one ever does. Rock n roll is fun!!!

This is great but needs to be kicked up many notches. Armed occupation of club, band gets in, ten minute set, gets out (with attendees as hostages, if necessary). By end of ten-city tour, band would be legendary.

Well, we had our equipment in the shitter.. so no #2's. Though, the folks takin a piss loved it all.. then after a few minutes the bathroom got so packed you couldn't do anything in there except dance.

I'm not sure what Ty thought. Probabaly happy but also pissed he didn't think of it. I have a friend (who is a journalist) call the venue the next day. She spoke to the owner and they were happy about being crashed. I always expect cops and venues to get mad, but no one ever does. Rock n roll is fun!!!