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Thursday, 5 March 2009
Tour - Day 1
So yesterday was the first day of the You Me At Six tour. I'm heading out with Brad helping out Emarosa at each of the dates with load ins and outs, making sure that when Emarosa finish, their entire back line is offstage in around 5 minutes so that The Spill Canvas can set up their shit.
It strikes me as weird that The Spill Canvas weren't keen on doing a backline share. It's not cheap and it causes so much hassle having to change 3 sets of back line for 3 bands. Ah well, my guns are made of steal and can hack lifting a few amps each night haha.
We set off at around 10.30am, picked Booley up from his house, went to change some of the back line then headed off to a service station near Nottingham to pick up a dude called "Mole". He's a 49 year old monitor tech, such a legend. He's been on some crazy tours before and it was funny hearing them all.
After we picked Mole up we headed down the M1, only for the van to break down, leaving us stuck at the side of one of the busiest motorways in the UK. After 30 of so minutes the RAC van (Dan YMA6 so kindly pointed out is CAR backwards, explaining the reason why he thought it was called the RAC haha) came and sorted stuff out so we could carry on.
We arrived at the last stop before seeing the rest of the guys to pick up some merch boxes and a few more dudes. By this point the van was getting rather full, so much so that we had to store some of the merch and drums in the actual passenger area, not the back. Not fun for them, fun for me as I was sat upfront with Brad and Mole, in the warmth.
We met all met up at Max's houses, dropped part of their back line off, which includes Dans absolutely amazing Truth drum kit. Literally the nicest kit I've ever seen.
I beat Max at a game of Fifa 09 on 360. He was in the lead 2-0 with Liverpool, but, my boys in Manchester United managed to pull it back to win 2-4, result. I'm sure there will be many more matches, results of which I'll post in here haha.
After the bus arrived to Max's, Brad and I left and went to Sophias house to hang out for the night. We watched Road Trip, sweet.
Pretty eventful first day if you ask me !
Today will a lot of chilling out, catching up on sleep and possibly a trip into London to see that Big Ben lad haha.
Picking up Jonas from Emarosa at around 9pm from Stansted airport.
I'll post more about today, tomorrow.
Peace,
Steffen
It strikes me as weird that The Spill Canvas weren't keen on doing a backline share. It's not cheap and it causes so much hassle having to change 3 sets of back line for 3 bands. Ah well, my guns are made of steal and can hack lifting a few amps each night haha.
We set off at around 10.30am, picked Booley up from his house, went to change some of the back line then headed off to a service station near Nottingham to pick up a dude called "Mole". He's a 49 year old monitor tech, such a legend. He's been on some crazy tours before and it was funny hearing them all.
After we picked Mole up we headed down the M1, only for the van to break down, leaving us stuck at the side of one of the busiest motorways in the UK. After 30 of so minutes the RAC van (Dan YMA6 so kindly pointed out is CAR backwards, explaining the reason why he thought it was called the RAC haha) came and sorted stuff out so we could carry on.
We arrived at the last stop before seeing the rest of the guys to pick up some merch boxes and a few more dudes. By this point the van was getting rather full, so much so that we had to store some of the merch and drums in the actual passenger area, not the back. Not fun for them, fun for me as I was sat upfront with Brad and Mole, in the warmth.
We met all met up at Max's houses, dropped part of their back line off, which includes Dans absolutely amazing Truth drum kit. Literally the nicest kit I've ever seen.
I beat Max at a game of Fifa 09 on 360. He was in the lead 2-0 with Liverpool, but, my boys in Manchester United managed to pull it back to win 2-4, result. I'm sure there will be many more matches, results of which I'll post in here haha.
After the bus arrived to Max's, Brad and I left and went to Sophias house to hang out for the night. We watched Road Trip, sweet.
Pretty eventful first day if you ask me !
Today will a lot of chilling out, catching up on sleep and possibly a trip into London to see that Big Ben lad haha.
Picking up Jonas from Emarosa at around 9pm from Stansted airport.
I'll post more about today, tomorrow.
Peace,
Steffen
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