Gig - Whitby Musicport 2007

Now this was a good weekend. Bloomin hard work though. 74 hours in 4 days!

I got accused of stealing a big African guys drum key. He then started screaming at me to the point I was thinking he might actually hit me. Iain then found it on the floor by his kit and accused him of planting it. What a prat!

Headlining the weekend was Courtney Pine. What a legend. At one point during his set he was playing two sax's at once. Genius!

Also learnt the best phone response to being woken up:
After stumbling in from the pub Si and I found our front door key didn't work. We rang the people inside. The guy who picked up offered to let us in. I appologised for waking him and his response was that he had to get up anyway, his phone was ringing. Class!

Finally got home and it was time for a week off. Woo!

Gig - Hull Uni - Reverend And The Makers (Should be in bold, but I am on a Mac and can't work out how to do it)

So the day started well. Post sound check I was really happy with the monitors. Tongiht was going to go well. How wrong could I have been!

Support acts were all good. 20 seconds into the set some punter threw beer over the FOH mixing desk. Pretty much instantly the desk died a death. At the end of the first song the band playing just with monitors were ushered off the stage by their people and I was told that the show was probably going to be pulled.

After a couple of minutes the lead singer of the band came out and explained to 1400 angry fans what had happened. He then turn his monitors round and said that the band would continue using just their stage monitors. Eeek!

The FOH guy was off having a strop somewhere so it was left to me and the back line tech to sort out. Eventually I came up witha way to get one stack back up, then managed to get the other up. With me behind the desk and the backline tech stood infront of the stack we managed to create a basic mix to wing our way through the show.

By the end of the set the FOH desk was in pieces in an attempt to dry off. The owner was also on his way down with the necessary cleaning tools.

Not a gig to forget in a hurry!

Gig(s) - Cleethorpes Jazz Festival, Captain Sound, The Brakes, The Bootleg Beatles, Hull New Theatre Charity Night

It's been a busy month or so. Right back at the beginning it started off with Cleethorpes Jazz Festival. I don't really remember this now.

On the 24th we started what feels like a permanent residency in Hull Uni providing systems for the touring bands coming through the doors. First in was Captain Sound. I only twigged on to this half way through the day but these guys supported Keane when Vicky and I had been to see them a year ago at Hull Arena. They were much better tonight than a year ago and I really enjoyed the show.

On the 1st Oct, a week later, I was back in Hull uni to do monitors for the Brakes. Again a good band. Not really my sort of music, but all went well.

The 3rd and 4th of that week we all headed south into the Derbyshire Dales for the opening of a new multi purpose athletics track. This gig was a right nightmare! Stage, Sound and Light in the middle of the track with no vehicle access beyond the outside of the track. It was a right push. The Bootlegs Beatles were the band playing. A regular for us. The atmosphere was a bizarre one though as all the punters and stacks were 100m away on a grass bank. Once it has gone dark it felt like the band were playing to themselves on the stage. Very freaky!

The following week on the 8th and 9th I was on monitors for a Charity Show in Hull New Theatre. Loads of clubland singers and a massive over-run each night. Was hard work!

No pictures at all for this month. I must get back into the habbit of takin my camera!