Gig - Barracuda Bar - March 2, 2007

Some gigs are cool, some are bad, some are just plain awful. This was the latter. This was for 5 reasons. These are...

1. The gig was upstairs, and the equipment is the distinct opposite of light
2. The room is a big mass of open space with more reflective surfaces than one of the crown jewels.
3. I wasn't engineering as revenge for doing monitors for We Are Scientists a few days previous.
4. Drunk people thinking they are invincible getting in the way while we are loading out.
5. We got a parking ticket.

So here goes...

1. No pictures for this one really, as I was carrying stuff, not taking pictures. But very unfunny. Especially as neither of us had been gigging recently so we are a little out of practice with lifting.

2. This is the venue. This picture was taken from FOH. The nature and location of this bar means it is based mainly on passing trade rather than someone coming to see a gig. Behind the mixing desk was a huge screen showing the rugby, which people seemed more interested in.














This is the band rocking away.














This band did however have the funniest tour bus I have seen to date.














3. Fair enough!

4. Let me tell you something, you are not invincible. Superman is invincible! You are just an accident waiting to happen as we drop a speaker on your head. Lets leave this at that.

5. Now this is just stupid. On street parking, free after 6pm, an empty street, and a parking ticket at 8:43pm for not parking correctly within the lines. Traffic Wardens are scum! This will be contested, but in the short term we had to have some amusement out of it to make light of a crap evening...