In Limelight

I am currently at a rehearsal for a Bollywood style choir. The show original required only sound. then they decided it would be nice for some blue light on the drum kit and now they would like back lighting and reds and other colours. Unfortunately for them I can be bothered organizing all of these colours so they get what they’ve got. The ‘artistic director’ is really strict. he is yelling at the choir like they are 5 year olds. The choir is actually really good but i’m not a fan of the director. I have to spend the entire evening with him in the bio box while he tells me when to fade the lights. I would rather turn them on and leave them on but that ain’t going to happen.

P.S. I found catering.

Dale asked me a few days ago to help him out with ‘techie’ stuff for a gig at Toorak college for a show called ‘Hands Up’ which was a charity event to raise money for a school in East Timor. So last night thats what I was doing. The lighting rig wasn’t big. It was around 24 Par-Cans, 1 strobe and a smoke machine. The event gave me some good ideas for lights during house music this year. The sound was much more impressive with a 20ish channel mixer, 6 Subs, 4 ‘Horn’ speakers 6 fold back speakers, lots of amplifiers and mics. The bands that were playing weren’t that great except for Danny’s Band which was the best one there. The whole event lasted until 10pm and we had it all packed up by 11:30. We would have finished earlier if the generator hadn’t of died on us. We had to wait 10 mints until we could start it again just for the last performance. The highlights of the night were when I was operating sound I was told that the police had received complaints about the noise and if we didn’t turn it down they would “cut us off” and also when i operated lights…That was just fun.