Bubba wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:20 pm
Playing live is what it's all about - I wish I could be there to give you some support!
Thanks Bubba and [mention]rayc[/mention]
Well I lived - it went pretty much exactly as I expected it to and I played the first song looking right in the sun which I realised wasn't going to work, and did some adjusting for the rest of the set. Played well, sang well, didn't make any major errors or forget any words and have lots of new cred amongst the colleagues. But it was always going to be a tough ask to play at that sort of crowd after people have been shut in a room all day. Anyway, lots of individuals sought me out after and congratulated me and by the end of the set I had a bit of rapport going. Plus the GM was seriously impressed.
But jeez, so much work to play 7 songs seeing I had to supply the PA for me and the guys following, set it up, liaise with the bar owner re position and volume, gaffer fucking leads everywhere, then at the end of the night, pull it all down again, shepherd up a new roadie seeing my main guy had buggered off, take it out to the car, take it home, unload it, take it up the lift, put it away.
There were probably about 100 people there. I have a photo on my phone of the before set up - obviously as I'm playing, I don't have any pictures of myself. I'll put in in another post, and try to hunt some people down who took actual photos and/or videos at work tomorrow.
When I went to leave the carpark the damn ticket machine wouldn't take either credit card. Lucky I had cash but now I have to get reimbursed without a receipt. Should hit them up for a roll of gaffer tape as well.
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