Portsmouth
Power Shower Rating - 1 (alternated between scolding hot, and freezing for Anna!)
Breakfast Rating - 7 (venue provided Breakfast Baps!!)
A grim day somewhere outside of Portsmouth on a dual carriageway service station. Anna had shower issues - another job well done by Travelodge! Everyone else seemed to survive ok. The 10min drive to the venue made slightly longer by having to trek up one side of the road to turn round the roundabout and come back down the other side.
So its 8am and we are in the Portsmouth Mountbatton Centre. A local crew of helpers and the wonderful Gary Tuttle (who joined us again after enjoying the Reading gig so much!!) and back on the scene was also Adam Evans. A hearty breakfast that was not McDonalds was delivered into the hall and it was all go.
The load-in was carried out in a manner that can only be described as a "well-oiled machine". With all the gear in and the power connected it was the same old jobs of getting the truss and set up and waiting for the cast to turn up around 1pm with the dressers. The cast turned up and started swarming around their jobs and sound checks and palette updates are also completed. The dressers set about dressing style stuff...not sure what really but it involves clothes and stuff like that, and Anna organise the chaos of cast and crew and stage time.
All that was left was for the crew to amuse themselves for a few hours before the show starts while the cast spent some time with the young people who perform at the end of the show. Highlight of this time was inventing the "Tortoise Game" a must for anyone with a few spare hours really it must be said.
Anyhow the show started, there was an interval (of approx. 20mins) it finished. Tim Wickham made some more cheesy announcements. Everyone left the venue. The Rock City Boys showed, up all the gear came down and went back on the truck, and everyone went back to the Travelodge for a good nights sleep.
Seem to have misplaced photos from the gig so if I find some I will put them up if not imagine a sports hall with the set in....or look at the reading photos and pretend its Portsmouth.
Breakfast Rating - 7 (venue provided Breakfast Baps!!)
A grim day somewhere outside of Portsmouth on a dual carriageway service station. Anna had shower issues - another job well done by Travelodge! Everyone else seemed to survive ok. The 10min drive to the venue made slightly longer by having to trek up one side of the road to turn round the roundabout and come back down the other side.
So its 8am and we are in the Portsmouth Mountbatton Centre. A local crew of helpers and the wonderful Gary Tuttle (who joined us again after enjoying the Reading gig so much!!) and back on the scene was also Adam Evans. A hearty breakfast that was not McDonalds was delivered into the hall and it was all go.
The load-in was carried out in a manner that can only be described as a "well-oiled machine". With all the gear in and the power connected it was the same old jobs of getting the truss and set up and waiting for the cast to turn up around 1pm with the dressers. The cast turned up and started swarming around their jobs and sound checks and palette updates are also completed. The dressers set about dressing style stuff...not sure what really but it involves clothes and stuff like that, and Anna organise the chaos of cast and crew and stage time.
All that was left was for the crew to amuse themselves for a few hours before the show starts while the cast spent some time with the young people who perform at the end of the show. Highlight of this time was inventing the "Tortoise Game" a must for anyone with a few spare hours really it must be said.
Anyhow the show started, there was an interval (of approx. 20mins) it finished. Tim Wickham made some more cheesy announcements. Everyone left the venue. The Rock City Boys showed, up all the gear came down and went back on the truck, and everyone went back to the Travelodge for a good nights sleep.
Seem to have misplaced photos from the gig so if I find some I will put them up if not imagine a sports hall with the set in....or look at the reading photos and pretend its Portsmouth.
posted by Anonymous at 3/27/2006 11:09:00 am
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