Hi! I'd like to know if you cover tunes or play your own music. If you are a cover band, your age shouldn't be a problem as long as you can play the songs well. The fact that you're young shouldn't matter even if you play your own music, but I find that young, inexperienced bands usually don't write nice songs.

First gigs are for having a blast!   Don't sweat any mistakes.   Just have fun performing.   You'll always remember your first time  

First of all Mike - slap down that guitar player of your's!!!
Secondly, like Peter Jeffrey said, you're first gig is for having a blast playing together, so don't put any pressure on yourself. As far as your age goes, I played my first cover gig at 15, and I'm still doing it now at 29, so I must be doing SOMETHING right!

ha, yeah I had my first real, money paying pub gig about a month ago.  From what I can tell, and from the mildly disenchanted attitude of the more experinced bands we played with your first gig is always the best.  We had all our friends show up - giving us a larger, more attentive crowd than the headliners and were the only band asked to play an encore (although time restrictions didn't allow it).  Actually, almost everyone commented that they thought we were better than the other bands who played - (at least we were good enough for the promoter to ask us back again).  Admittedly the other bands were tragically generic in my opinion....

In terms of preparing for it - don't know if you'd want to but we practised everyday for about 5 days or so leading up to it.  Repetition pays off...just went through our 45min set once or twice each time.

Were a young 17/18 year old band as well although we really only play originals.

"but I find that young, inexperienced bands usually don't write nice songs. "

Seeing I'm the songwriter I would like to prove you wrong somehow...