Tuesday, June 20, 2006

TBWNN @ LCF

Ok so having made the decision not to move to Manchester and work with the TBWNN, the following weekend was when the band were visitng LCF. It was a bit awkward, and had some interesting conversations with the guys in the band who obviously knew I had had an interview for the job.

But all in all it was an awesome weekend. It was a big thing for me, as I was overseeing all the technical side of the event, and I also put together and played in the support band "Busted Fly". We put in a pretty meaty 10k sound system, and a completely new lighting rig including 4 moving lights (which i hasten to add were very excellently programmed and operated by Mr Andy Pullinger) as well as a big rear projection screen and a very big extended stage. It pretty much involved me living down at the chuch for 4 days prior to the gig(well not quite but I was there from about 10am and didn't finish any earlier than 11pm most nights) but the end result was well worth it.

The band were amazing, the stage looked and sounded excellent, and the additional staging that we had quickly knocked together the week before didn't collapse( and is still intact to this day) On top of all that quite a few young people made commitments at the gig, and the band were absolutely blown away by how well organised the gig was and how well we looked after the during their stay.

So over all I was pleased with with how it all went. Special mention goes out to the guys who played in Busted Fly, you were all awesome as ever, and also big up respect goes out to Tom and Lucy for being such excellent hosts for the evening.

4 Comments:

Blogger gill said...

busted fly were good - i enjoyed that gig, was cool. hope ur ok joel x

12:18 am  
Blogger Liz said...

Dude! Sounds awesome, wish I could've been there. Very very well done :o)

2:07 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello Joel, it's Ben here - u teach me drums.
I'm practicing. How are you?
I think it's cool that u played in a band. Hope ur well!
Ben

8:35 pm  
Blogger Holy Joely said...

Hey Ben!

Thanks for the message and glad to hear you've been practising.

Hopefully one day you'll be able to play in a band too.

See you soon,

Joel

10:29 pm  

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