Crawley The Hawth!

Its been a few days since the first gig and we are already a week in. Normally I would miss posting a few days then would rack my brains as to what happened on those missed days. But now, I'm just gonna skip it and fast forward to tonight's show. I simply cannot think of what happened on those shows other than the basics. But rest assure they all went like this:

Woke at travelodge, drive to theatre, build up, had something to eat, chilled out, had the meeting to discuss changes in the show or mistakes on the last one, ROCKED THE FUCK OUTTA THE PLACE, pull down, travel to travelodge and then bed. 

We did a have day off after the third show and it was also my birthday. What did we all do in celebration? FUCK ALL!!! 

What a thoughtful and caring bunch they are. Da and Matt even bought me a Zimmer frame, because that's really funny because it's a joke about me getting old. It IS funny, isn't it? 

They also got me chocolate cake, which made up for the poor quality joke. 

Thanks guys! 

An old fat bloke eating chocolate cake. Sorta, well a lot, like me! 

So Crawley today then. Or as Haze called it, "creepy" Crawley. 

I was only here in October with The Osmonds, not quite the same show, but the get in and build up was as fast. 

I did plan to have a mosey on around the town or the area but weather being as wank as it was, I only braved the outside to find a Tesco and stock up on cereal for the morning and a bunch of things for dinner. 

That amounted to a shit load of rabbit food and chicken. With some fruit and nuts. 

(Fucking riveting read this init?) 

After the meeting Clayton and I tried to make sense of the spare desk. In the case that there would be a problem with the main one, plugging this one in and getting to go would be impossible without setting it up prior. And knowing how these things tend to happen, it wouldn't be in the day or soundcheck, but the show meaning a lightening fast turn around is absolutely paramount. 

Anyway, we are slighty closer to achieving this. The thing we are stuck on is loading a scene from the main desk into the secondary desk so they have exactly the same show. But oddly, the secondary isn't recognising the the saved scenes on the memory stick. 

Why is this an issue, surely it's a case of swapping the connections and turning the power on right? Well, here's the main desk we use. 

And here's the spare

See what I mean?

Anyway, it's a work in progress and something I intend fully to have nailed very soon. I plan to call the manufacturer on Monday and get some sense. 

The show went well, I personality played a good one as did the band. 

Pull down and a short drive to the travelodge and it was vodka o'clock.