Lyric theatre show 3

BBack in the Lyric, again, for the third time.

I drove the mini bus to South Wimbledon tube dropped off every bugger and then met at Haze's gaff for 11:00, then we ourselves negated the tube network to Shaftesbury avenue. 

The usual deal of getting there for 12:00 hanging about for 2 hours and getting in at 2pm ensued. 

Lunch was held at Camden meat market where everyone had dirty ass burgers. All except me who had a salad.  But I did share some wings with professor who, despite the vat of ale consumed the night before, was not sporting a hangover. 

I felt a bit Christmassy and had some mulled wine that was being served outside Camden market. After I downed it (to get into the meat market) I regretted it. 

Back at the theatre, build up went as smooth as it had done the week before. Maybe more so because we'd saved the scene on the desk and left the Cat5 cable in. 

Had the usual hassle of mic squeals but that's usual these days with the level of vocal required thorough the monitors. 

I set the kit up differently this time. Don't know why, just fancied a change. Instead of having 3 toms across the front and a floor tom to the right, I deceived to have 2 toms to the left of the hihat and two toms to the right of the snare so all toms and snare are on the same plane. The rise cymbal goes right in front and crashes where ever I could put them. 

Here's a pic

My weird kit set up complete with Asia's skull to the left of it looking like it's sucking dick. 

It was fucking weird to play but it looked awesome. It made me play weird fills and fucked with my general flow, but the prospect of it looking cool out weighed the playability of it. For today, tomorrow il put it back.

The show went up, it was about as well sold as the week before and just after packing down the kit, haze and I went to collect the vans in Wimbledon. 

We got a call about 30 mins in saying they'd finished the pack up and we're waiting for us. Fuck that was fast!!! Beating last week's speed by 25 minutes. That's Sean's input on down that is right there. 

It would come at a cost but we were not to find out until the following day. 

A long drive ensued to Birmingham to stay then to Crewe for the next show.