Spudmurphy
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I have to kill a few hours because Railtrack want another £75 for me to catch an earlier train home!!!
Sod that, so I thought I'd get a Starbucks, a big sticky cake and sit down and tell you guys what happened in Cardiff last weekend.
I'd been asked to do the sound for a 2 day event at the Gower Pub Cardiff. The event was called "Roath Rocks" and set out to raise money for charity. - Stroke Foundation.
British (Welsh) comic Stan Stennett http://www.stan-stennett.com/img/stan-stennett.png
gave an opening soliloquy and praised the organiser for all the great work he has done in the past - raising over £75K for one family to enable groundbreaking therapy to take place.
If you look at the link to Stan you'll see he's holding a really old guitar and I had the pleasure of seeing it (and another one he owns) around my mates workshop a few months ago.
I had a brief word with Stan and he told me that he had given one of them to his grand son - lucky GS I say!
Anyway the organiser - Wayne - a camp (in the very nicest sense) nurse in the stroke unit in Cardiff asked me to set up two PA's. One in the pub bar and one on the main stage upstairs.
Wayne ought to give up the day job (not really) as his presentation style was so 8loody funny!!!
So during the next two days (started at 2:00 pm each day) I had to flit between two desks.
During the Saturday night I got up on the smaller stage and did a 30 minute solo mini set using the BCB Albert through my Aer. I played "The Stealer" -Free. "Seagull" - Paul Rogers. "Willin'" - Little Feat. "Times like these" Foo Fighters. "Behind Blue Eyes" Who / Limp Biscuit.
A Jazzy/Swing version of "Route 66" -which they went ape for!! "chasing Cars/Run" - Snow Patrol ... ... oh yeah one guy in the crowd pipes up "Hey Spud I remember when you used to play "Oh Well" with a double edged razor blade" - so I did a quick version - minus the razor blade!!
Wayne said - uhhh Spud I didn't know you played can you play on the mainstage tomorrow - which I duly obliged!!
Right then - Guitarists, ... .... some, are real prima donnas. Some drummers are the same.
One guitarist came running to me like a little kid runs to his Mom saying - "a guy walked across the stage and pulled my leads out!" - uh yeah, I say.... mmmmmmm , uhhh,I'm kinda busy at the mo getting the sound gear all set up, and running downstairs to check the other desk but I'll go and sort it out for ya when I give a s..t"
Rest of the band are now edgy cos their guitarist is now throwing hissy fits. Im thinking, lets see if he does a Pete Townshend on his guitar
- but trash my amp and yer dead!!! lol
One band take soooo long setting up they looked a bit distraught when I got my shepherds crook out to drag them off - "I muttered something like - you got an hour to set up/play - the longer you set up the less you have to play ... you were told!!"
Played my set again - went well until I had to step over to another mike which was set over a foot too high for me - i mean, who does "the sound for the sound man??"
Anyway I could go on.
The event raised over a thousand pounds for Stroke victims - went home tired but happy with the result. oh well (pun) still over an hour to kill in Leeds!!
Sod that, so I thought I'd get a Starbucks, a big sticky cake and sit down and tell you guys what happened in Cardiff last weekend.
I'd been asked to do the sound for a 2 day event at the Gower Pub Cardiff. The event was called "Roath Rocks" and set out to raise money for charity. - Stroke Foundation.
British (Welsh) comic Stan Stennett http://www.stan-stennett.com/img/stan-stennett.png
gave an opening soliloquy and praised the organiser for all the great work he has done in the past - raising over £75K for one family to enable groundbreaking therapy to take place.
If you look at the link to Stan you'll see he's holding a really old guitar and I had the pleasure of seeing it (and another one he owns) around my mates workshop a few months ago.
I had a brief word with Stan and he told me that he had given one of them to his grand son - lucky GS I say!
Anyway the organiser - Wayne - a camp (in the very nicest sense) nurse in the stroke unit in Cardiff asked me to set up two PA's. One in the pub bar and one on the main stage upstairs.
Wayne ought to give up the day job (not really) as his presentation style was so 8loody funny!!!
So during the next two days (started at 2:00 pm each day) I had to flit between two desks.
During the Saturday night I got up on the smaller stage and did a 30 minute solo mini set using the BCB Albert through my Aer. I played "The Stealer" -Free. "Seagull" - Paul Rogers. "Willin'" - Little Feat. "Times like these" Foo Fighters. "Behind Blue Eyes" Who / Limp Biscuit.
A Jazzy/Swing version of "Route 66" -which they went ape for!! "chasing Cars/Run" - Snow Patrol ... ... oh yeah one guy in the crowd pipes up "Hey Spud I remember when you used to play "Oh Well" with a double edged razor blade" - so I did a quick version - minus the razor blade!!
Wayne said - uhhh Spud I didn't know you played can you play on the mainstage tomorrow - which I duly obliged!!
Right then - Guitarists, ... .... some, are real prima donnas. Some drummers are the same.
One guitarist came running to me like a little kid runs to his Mom saying - "a guy walked across the stage and pulled my leads out!" - uh yeah, I say.... mmmmmmm , uhhh,I'm kinda busy at the mo getting the sound gear all set up, and running downstairs to check the other desk but I'll go and sort it out for ya when I give a s..t"
Rest of the band are now edgy cos their guitarist is now throwing hissy fits. Im thinking, lets see if he does a Pete Townshend on his guitar
- but trash my amp and yer dead!!! lolOne band take soooo long setting up they looked a bit distraught when I got my shepherds crook out to drag them off - "I muttered something like - you got an hour to set up/play - the longer you set up the less you have to play ... you were told!!"
Played my set again - went well until I had to step over to another mike which was set over a foot too high for me - i mean, who does "the sound for the sound man??"
Anyway I could go on.
The event raised over a thousand pounds for Stroke victims - went home tired but happy with the result. oh well (pun) still over an hour to kill in Leeds!!
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