Gig - Easter Praise - Hull City Hall

Today is Easter Sunday, and what a surprise when I woke up. Snow!

Anyway The day did not start excellent. Upon arrival at the warehouse to commence the brief drive to the City Hall, Iain and I were flawed in that the truck would not start. Dead Battery. Bummer!

The truck was parked in the unit, with the other truck behind it for another show. We had to jump it off using the other truck, but jump leads wouldn't reach. Do'h! A couple of 2 tonne rigging steels did a great job of bridging the gap! I did however wire up to the wrong end of the link between the two batteries in the Red Van. The resulting spark quite happily blew through a strand or two of the steel. Nice. It now resides in the bin!

Upon correct wiring the truck did start though. Genius!

After an eventful start we were only 20 minutes late for our load in, but we paggered it and were set in time.

It was a long day. I was running monitors, which ended up using nearly all of the inputs on my 48 channel desk and was 13 mixes.

One of the bands playing was theReign, who I had recorded and mixed their last album for as part of my final year uni project. It was a while since I had seen those guys, and it was good to cross paths again.

At the end of the day we packed up, went back to the warehouse, drank tea, tipped the truck and went home for much needed sleep!