What's that coming over the hill?
Hull Uni was last night blessed with the pleasure of a four piece who over the last few months have reached quite extensive heights of fame. In this band there three members who get their head down, turn up to soundchecks and after soundcheck have a quick practice at things that are not going quite right. There is also a fourth member to this band, Pennie, who can only be described as a raving loon. Jumping here there and everywhere. The band in question are The Automatic.
The task today was to put a shed load of speakers in a room and for their engineers to turn up and make it remotely sound good in the worst room ever designed.
Out day could be split into several parts.
1. The worst truck pack in quite a while, modeled here by Simon.
2. The Load In - We turned up at the venue and there was an 18tn truck full of lighting for the band. We sat and waited for about an hour while they unloaded. We then unloaded, set up FOH, but then had to wait for another hour or so before we could start work on the stage. All painstakingly slow.
3. The soundcheck - I was assigned the task of babysitting monitors for the day. However The Automatics monitor engineer was also their tour manager, and not wanting to get grief from the band he asked if i would soundcheck them. Fine by me, good experience and I can ensure that it doesn't get run so loud that everything breaks! Everything went smooth and it was really loud. Job sorted. Sound check support, bork at how slow the support FOH engineer was, doors, yey!
The band during soundcheck from Monitor World.
4. Doors - Time to grab a bit of food, plastic student hot dog etc...
5. Show - Supports play, everything runs smooth. The stage change for The Automatic. Still no sign of their monitor guy so i run the line check. The just as the band are about to walk on stage he arrives. Changes loads of stuff, and the band all ask for it to be changed back, brilliant! The show went smooth, the keyboard player bounced all over everywhere like the mad man he is.
6. The Get Out - After the show there was going to be a club night. We however needed to get out on the night, so for 10 mins they emptied the club while we got FOH out of the venue. Doors would then re open and we would pack away the stage. The was record breaking - 47 mins from end of show to driving away!
7. Back at the Unit - Just two of us to unload a full truck. Took longer than the get out. :-(
And that concludes a day in the life of the Automatic! Long day, but ran flawless.
Hull Uni was last night blessed with the pleasure of a four piece who over the last few months have reached quite extensive heights of fame. In this band there three members who get their head down, turn up to soundchecks and after soundcheck have a quick practice at things that are not going quite right. There is also a fourth member to this band, Pennie, who can only be described as a raving loon. Jumping here there and everywhere. The band in question are The Automatic.
The task today was to put a shed load of speakers in a room and for their engineers to turn up and make it remotely sound good in the worst room ever designed.
Out day could be split into several parts.
1. The worst truck pack in quite a while, modeled here by Simon.
2. The Load In - We turned up at the venue and there was an 18tn truck full of lighting for the band. We sat and waited for about an hour while they unloaded. We then unloaded, set up FOH, but then had to wait for another hour or so before we could start work on the stage. All painstakingly slow.
3. The soundcheck - I was assigned the task of babysitting monitors for the day. However The Automatics monitor engineer was also their tour manager, and not wanting to get grief from the band he asked if i would soundcheck them. Fine by me, good experience and I can ensure that it doesn't get run so loud that everything breaks! Everything went smooth and it was really loud. Job sorted. Sound check support, bork at how slow the support FOH engineer was, doors, yey!
The band during soundcheck from Monitor World.
4. Doors - Time to grab a bit of food, plastic student hot dog etc...
5. Show - Supports play, everything runs smooth. The stage change for The Automatic. Still no sign of their monitor guy so i run the line check. The just as the band are about to walk on stage he arrives. Changes loads of stuff, and the band all ask for it to be changed back, brilliant! The show went smooth, the keyboard player bounced all over everywhere like the mad man he is.
6. The Get Out - After the show there was going to be a club night. We however needed to get out on the night, so for 10 mins they emptied the club while we got FOH out of the venue. Doors would then re open and we would pack away the stage. The was record breaking - 47 mins from end of show to driving away!
7. Back at the Unit - Just two of us to unload a full truck. Took longer than the get out. :-(
And that concludes a day in the life of the Automatic! Long day, but ran flawless.
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