Here are the things that have happened at the beginning of this month.
Our normal monitor guy couldn’t go on a one-off with Terri Clark, so I went through an enormous amount of crap to line up a substitute monitor engineer and guitar tech. One guy turned down a gig for me, the other sold his tickets to a U2 concert. The promotor of this gig proceeded to be extremely sketchy. Yesterday, I got a call informing me that the gig was cancelled due to aforementioned sketchiness. Arrrgh. So as production manager, I had to call the two guys who turned down other money-making opportunities to come out with us, and tell them the show was no longer a thing that was happening. Needless to say, they were not happy, but there wasn’t anything any of us could do. So we sucked it up. Today, I got a call informing me that the gig…was back on. Double arrrrggghh. So today I had to call back to grovel them into coming back. One was cool with that, but the other had already taken a gig with someone else, and was fairly (and understandably) pissed about the whole thing. So now I have to find another guitar tech by tomorrow.
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The Carvers got preferential placement, I guess, which means they’re moving away sooner than expected – November or sooner if things go well for them. By moving, of course, I mean “moving to Greece”. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m going to cry like a little girl when Eva and Scarlett and Matt and Julia leave. Especially Eva.
BDW production manager spilled the beans about my tours conflicting to band leader, leading to a rather awkward conversation when we were hanging out. I hate it when people divulge things I asked them not to. I can never trust him with any sort of schedule secret again. The reason I kept it under wraps is because I like to prepare a replacement and have him ready to go instead of blowing the whole thing early, which leads to Matt cracking jokes about “why do you care, you’re not going to be there.” and the questions about who’s going to take over my role for a month.
One-off with BDW was with the Most Craptastic Lighting System Ever Installed, and half the lights were frozen on in odd combinations while the LEDs on the stage did an unchangeable, un-turn-offable and constant rainbow chase. The lead tech of the church had the balls to claim that the cause of the failures was because I made a new fader page on his console. He was incorrect.
Exit, stage left.
Sparks