Being a Band Wife

Being a Band Wife is a roller coaster of equal amounts fun and stress. After Luke's amazing gig last night I want to share a few points of what to expect if you ever marry someone who is in a band. Enjoy.

BEING A BAND WIFE:

1. You will go to gigs that you never thought you would ever attend otherwise. This is particularly true in my case where I have had to learn to appreciate the subtle nuances of metal.
   
2. You will feel like the oldest in the room when you watch teenagers throwing themselves at each other when enjoying your hubby's music.
   
3. You WILL learn to head bang, and not complain about the neck strain the next day.
   
4. You will have to rearrange your entire wardrobe into what is and what is not suitable to wear at metal gigs (the same can be said of make up and jewelry).
   
5. You will learn the cycle of when to leave a man alone to write music and when he needs to talk and complain about how it all his writing sucks.
   
6. The other band members will become your family and when you do your food shopping you will instinctively budget in enough to feed them if they all come round at once.
   
7. You will learn the fine art of when you need to encourage and when you need to constructively criticize music or stage performance.
   
8. You will find yourself downloading software to create concepts for t-shirts and album covers even though you have never done it before and are not sure what the band wants in the first place as they can't all agree on what their design should be.
   
9. Eventually you will discover that your future plans no longer rest on the decision making of you and your husband but on a group of people that have no relation to you whatsoever other than play instruments with your husband.
   
10. Without it actually being said you will know that you never ask hubby to choose between his music and you, even if you are CERTAIN he will choose you!
    
11. Life can get either very lonely or very crowded. It will be lonely when a gig is coming up and every other spare second of hubby's day is spent practicing songs. It will get crowded when music is being written on hubby's computer and the band all need to come around to your very small apartment to give their opinions on the new song.
    
12. You will have an instant family! I currently have a husband and several brothers who I know would protect me and defend me from anything (it is good being a band wife).
    
13. You will laugh at being called a groupie because you are sleeping with one of the band members.
     
14. Sometimes life will get stressful, especially when you are trying to decide the next step in life and are so committed to the band that you have to take into account whether or not your decision will impact on it negatively or not. This can be extremely difficult and can take sacrifice and balls to stand your ground. Anyone who is marrying into a band should not take these decisions lightly or think they will not face them.
    
15. You will invest in some heavy duty earplugs as a must of your wardrobe.
    
16. Most of all you will have a lot of laugh's with the boys, value you them all individually and as a group, and they will bring you so much joy.

It's tough but it's worth it!