Chapter 181 - The Challenge of a Large Audience

181 181 - The Challenge of a Large Audience

When we finished testing the instruments, we stepped off the stage for a few minutes and just waited for the show to begin.

Soon the appointed time came and we went back on stage and saw that a few hundred more people had arrived in the audience, but there were still a few hundred to go to reach the maximum capacity of 3,000 people.

But for someone like me who was used to doing shows for a maximum of 200 people, I was excited to do this show.

"Good evening, everyone." I waved to the audience with a smile.

"Jack!!!" A girl shouted.

"BlackVelvet!!!" A man shouted.

"Hey Jack!" Another girl shouted.

"Ayoo BlackVelvet!" Another girl shouted.

Seeing that there were more people in the audience who knew me than I thought, I was excited, because concerts are much more fun for people who already know me and my songs.

Smiling at each of the people who called me Jack or BlackVelvet, I spoke again.

"Good evening, it's a great feeling to be able to sing in front of such a large audience who are similar to me in style..." I said, laughing and pointing to my black shirt.

Seeing this, the people in the audience who knew me laughed with me while those who didn't didn't understand.

"For those who don't know me, you might think it's strange that an obvious rock singer thinks it's different to sing for a rock audience, right? The truth is that I don't just sing rock, even though I love it. I said while playing the riff of The Lazy Song.

Hearing that, many people were surprised to recognize the song!

"Is that The Lazy Song?"

"I think it is!"

"Is he the singer of that lazy song? I never would have guessed!"

"I think I need to listen to that song again now."

I could hear some conversations from people near the stage, and I wasn't too surprised that they were saying this.

I also noticed that a lot of people weren't excited about this style of music, as it was a very happy song, for a very emo audience, who liked sad lyrics, as it was Dark Pistol's style.

I'm becoming this, all I want to do...

Is to be more like me and less like you...

????????????

In the first chorus of the song, only those who knew me or knew the song sang along, but the second time I sang the chorus, the number of people singing doubled, while I noticed the crowd getting visibly more excited.

By the third and final chorus, the number of people singing along with me had reached at least 500, with a few hundred more people paying attention to me on stage and hundreds more nodding their heads while just enjoying the song.

Having 500 people sing my song was already a great achievement, even though there were more than 2,000 people who didn't sing with me.

I could see that a lot of people still weren't in the mood for the show, people in the background were just chatting and didn't care who was singing on stage because it wasn't Dark Pistol yet, the band they came to see.

But I didn't worry or feel bad about it.

Putting on a show for such a large audience was really a much bigger challenge than just putting on a show for a small audience like I always did.

And winning over that audience in the background was my goal as the performer opening the show.

My job was to get people excited so that when Dark Pistol came on stage, the audience would be in the perfect mood and want to enjoy as much of their performance as possible.

But convincing those people to pay attention to me and enjoy my show was not only good for Dark Pistol when they went on stage, but it was also very good for me, because I was winning over an audience that could potentially become my audience.

So I started dedicating myself to winning those people over.

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