Up and Comin’
Yo
Sorry if it’s taken a while for me to get this put on here, but I’m happy to say that the Up and Comin’ gig, or most of it!! was a success! yay…
I’ll firstly tell you about what went wrong: Everything was fine until 1/2 way through one of APO’s songs, lead singer Tim Marsh decides to go and fall over. Lol, this was funny…Screamo falling over on stage whilst screeeeeeeammming! hehe.
Also, we had sound problems (or more precisely, crap microphones) which I had to spend 10 minutes at the start of the show sorting out, so things were a little delayed. There wouldn’t have been any problem if I (and the band members and people who I had got to help) were allowed out of more than one lesson out of five. Well, I was out lesson 2, half of lesson 4 and lesson 5 (lesson 4 because I kept on winging at the amount of set up time we had left…). Ricky stayed in the hall most the day rigging our lights whilst I was in and out of lessons. I managed to get some people out lesson 2 as well, but this was tough and I had senior management on my back, again…
With restricted set up time, it made mine and Ricky’s job harder as the techie guys. Although we got everything sorted in the end with the time we had, it meant that Ricky couldn’t do the programming he wanted and I couldn’t get a decent sound check. Oh well, next time I’ll really annoy ‘em!
What did go well however is what you (or whoever actually reads this, if anyone), will want to know. The bands themselves played really well, and for The Popes Main Rival’s first major gig, the audience loved them 
In terms of the slightly more hellraising screamo band Another Pointless Outlook - the long hair gentlemen of hardcore, they certainly left an impression!
I’m sure the audience really wanted to see my ugly mug up on stage introducing everything etc, but y’know, you win some, you loose some hehe! Everything was going *okayish* until the end, when the audience started shouting “SING SING SING”…ut oh. I didn’t wanna let them down, so I sang (a bit, the bit that I could remember) of Bohemian Rhapsody..like I can sing!
If you want to know all the lighting and sound gear that we used:
Lighting:
- 4 Howie Battens
- 2 Acme iSolution iRock 6B barrel Scanners - 5 channel DMX
- 2 Acme Dynamo mirror scanners - 4 channel DMX
- 2 Chauvet Intimidator mirror scanners - 5 channel DMX
- 4 Acme Magic Gobos - 3 channel DMX
- 2 UV cans
- Le Maitre Neutron XS Hazer
- 6 CP62 Parcans 1000W (with blue and red gels)
- 4 Strand Quartet 650W fresnels
- Zero88 Sirius 24 Analogue Lighting desk
- Acme DMX Master (DMX controller for up to 12 DMX fixtures. Each fixture can have up to 16 DMX channels assigned to it)
- A lot of Socapex cable and socapex spiders
- DMX cable etc
Sound:
- Behringer EuroPower PMH3000 powered mixing desk
- 2 Peavy 300W Club Speakers - 15″ cabinets
- Multicore
- 25 meter speaker leads
- One corded Microphone and one wireless Microphone
It was great fun, and I’m glad that we put the whole event together now. We raised nearly £200 for charity which I’m extremely pleased about. We’re hoping to do another one down at lower school someone in the next few months if it can be arranged
A BIG thanks to my friend Ricky for helping me with this gig - getting stuff to and from the gig, setting up etc and taking time off work to help! Cheers mate.
Anyway, photos…the best bit - Erm well, you can find photos here (I’ve put them up on Jamierees.net ’cause I’ve run outta disk space here)
Jamie.