Well it's the first full day that I have off for the summer but yet I'm not having a uber lie in or even just a chilled out day. I'm working with Rob, of UKSLC and Cnics Audio, on a gig in Derby with his band, The Beatles Experience, before loading up the van and then going down to Aylesbury to do a gig with Gareth tomorrow night.
I was up and off for 10AM having had a quick breakfast, and fixing the vibrating inlet pipe to the cold water tank in the loft which some clown at Tay never managed to screw down - at all - all those years ago, to get my 11:10 train down to Derby where I was to meet Rob. We met up and went to the lock up where we loaded the van with most of the kit for Tomorrows gig and then the extra bits for the gig that we did with The Beatles Experience. It took a few hours due to waiting around for a couple of things to come back from dry hire. We got off to the gig, parked up and had some food at a takeaway....and then just as we elect to start the get in via the clubs fire exit the heavens open with the heaviest down pour that I have seen all year! After a few manic minutes of getting the required kit, thankfully not including the two stacks of W8 that were in the van, we got in....and the rain stopped...fantastic!
Anyway the rest of The Beatles Experience arrived and the set up commenced. Once set up we went to the green room - which was actually the entire upper floor of the club! Which by the way was Scooch in Ripley. The gig went well, however my moulded ear defenders got noticed as a group of lad must have thought I was blind as they persisted during the evening to but two fingers to their ear and talk into their sleeves...They were a bit drunk or just stupid as they must have know I could have seen them but it didn't bother me - at the end of the night I could still hear perfectly.
After the band finished - which happened once the band played three extra songs that they didn't expect to play, as the crowd effectively wouldn't let them leave the stage, the pack down commenced. We got the kit in the van in about 50 minutes then headed back to the lock up in Derby to get rid of kit we had in the van and didn't need for the gig on Friday then added the bits and pieces that wouldn't fit in the van before. Grabbed a couple of pizzas, for consumption in the van, and set off to Aylesbury at about 1:30-2AM.
We arrived in Aylesbury, after a journey spent listening to war of the world and having some subdued chat, at 3:55AM. Straight to Gareths house and to sleep. Rob had already not got any sleep the night before after working at another gig where he drove back over night so he was out like a light!
Looking forward to the gig tomorrow...although getting up at 8:30AM after getting to sleep at about 5AM sounds a bit harsh - not sure that we need to be doing the get in that early but the organiser wants it so it shall be done!
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