Home for a few hours!

The past few days seem to have vanished into a flurry of activity since last posting which has generaly consisted of, hard graft and funny banter.

This is what happened in order starting from friday the day of Sandance beach party on the Palm in Dubai. For us, the technical team today was the least labour intensive day, all the rig was up, everything was plugged in we just had to be onsite as technical support for the gig and for a couple of follow-spot calls for Richard Ashcroft and Chicaine.


SAD (Lee) points at Shaun

In the industry Follow-spotting is generally seen a newbies job so when we got asked to do it from the PM (production manager) a silence descended between us as we looked at each other and probably spoke at the same time in our heads “Im not fucking doing that!” We decided to have a think and decide who would do it, tempted my the ‘after midday’ start for spot operating I agreed along with Shaun.
We got onsite around 15.00 catching a lift with Steve, checked the follow-spots, cans and basically hung around till Ascroft was on, Example & DJ Wire & Chicane where after that no more spots were needed. We got down to ground level and hung around following Chicane were David Moralis, Joris Voorn, Sasha in that order. I’ve checked out some of Voorn’s stuff since hearing him DJ planted some on my ipod :-), the Moralis & Sascha seem a bit dated now.

The next day (Saturday) was an 08.00 start followed by 10 hours of work, stripping down the rig sweating our tits off in the heat, we all must have drank over a litre of water per hour over the course of the day to keep hydrated which was just as well as we were all going out for some drinks later on. By 18.00 we had all managed to drop (derig) all lighting from the stage and site whilst the local crew stuck the last of the boxes on the truck. To everyones amusement, but not the driver. One of the locals had parked his van too close to the water and the tide had came in before he realised!

Much to our amusement, poor driver :-/

We eventually got back tot he hotel at about 18.30, with a quick shower shave, fresh clothes we went out for some food and beers with the rest of the Gearhouse crew. We met in a sports bar, had some food, had some beer, had some more beer, had some gin and tonic, had some more beer, then we left and went to a kind of nightclub place on the third floor of some hotel like building. Im not entirely sure where it was but we all ended up drinking these blue drinks, thats all i need to say, they were blue and contained allot of alcohol. Before we knew it we were back at the hotel ready to get picked up to got to the airport, we arrived at the airport, checked in, got on the plane and slept…………….

Dan & Sad

Shaun

Although some of us woke up to pay silly buggers……. Cheers Shaun.

Me and a Gerordie Chav 😉

I finally got home after picking my car up from Nitelites, helping Pimpy (Andy Magee) unload a truck, all in all a top week, lots of graft and lots of laughs. I have approximately 18hours at home before I head off again to Yorkshire for a couple of days!

 

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