Woke up on the bus sweating like a pig as usual! Why oh why does the driver turn the AC off!! And why doesn't he slow down on these bumpy East German roads. It's 5AM. Lovely!!
Finally sort of fall asleep about 6AMish, and get woken up by the alarm at 11AM, still sweating like a pig.
Wander into venue, it's dark, very dark. Find a loo, have the morning dump. Find the coffee, and some yoghurts. Nice. Des plays the hide the penny under three cups trick. The cups are glass and see through. Mike still can't guess the one the pennys under. Ah, he'll be the drummer then.
Our loadin time is midday, so we loadin the back line at just after. Mike helps, he must be bored. Milky doesn't. The PA is stuck in traffic or something so we're told. That loads in later.
Finally find some time to solder up that spare IEM cable. It's too small, or my soldering iron tip is too big, or something. Thing Dug owes me yet another pint.
The PA crew have put up the desk, so I get my rack set up and start labeling the desk. PA crew plug in most of the mics, and then disappear. We don't see them again till after the gig. Just for Abbiss: todays problem frequency is around 5kHz.
Band get a bit down cause there aren't many punters in. The managerial flannel is that the gigs a not a shithole it's a happening shithole. OK they don't say that, it's a quote from a film, see later. Gig starts and there's loads of punters. Yet another good gig.
Do the out, PA crew re-appear. PA gear all over the stage in the way of the backline. Load out through the after show disco. Mmmm, nice. NOT. And the smell coming from the drains just by the trailer is even worse than our bus!!
Find the shower. It's good. Find the dressing room, reds back on the rider, great. Have a large glass, not bad. Finally we hit the bus. Gary does the clear the dressing room of band debris bit. He leaves his own wash back behind. Oops.
More red on the bus, watch a great film. More red. Film's called Still Crazy. More red. Funny film, just their tour bus is way too big. More red. Wish these films would be technically correct. Finish red. Go to bed. |
