Gig log 18th B day in Park Lodge Aberystwyth

0:00 Help, maybe sometimes, talk

Alright folks, another gig log for you and today I'm doing another 18th birthday party in the Park Lodge in Aberystwyth or on Gymraeg, it's known as Chetty Park. Anyway, I want to talk a little bit, because I always like to talk loads of rubbish beforehand and after, before the gig and after the gig, but I want to talk about logistics here. It does annoy me, and please leave your comments as well, please by all means. When you turn up to a function and you're there, you're playing for maybe sometimes just an hour or an hour and a half. And occasionally you'll get people coming up to you and saying, how much do you earn? Maybe sometimes you'll tell them the truth, whatever. But nine times out of ten, they say, how much? And they think, well, you've only played for like an hour or two hours. But what they don't realise is... Oh, the light's gone out. Dodgy van, you see. What they don't realise is...

A, the cost of the equipment, the cost of maintaining the equipment. Also, they don't realise that just because you're there playing from say 10 o'clock till 1, you may be left the house at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. You may not get back till say 3 or 4 in the morning. So there's all that time to take into consideration as well. There's wear and tear on the vehicle. Plus the fact... DJ tutorial by Ellaskins It's up to you. And very, very rarely, I mean when it does happen it's wonderful, but at the beginning of the night it's great if people help. But here's a word of warning and some advice for you. I like to give advice. At the end of the evening, if people say, I'll help, make sure they're not drunk because it's better to say no.

And you have to be firm because quite often you'll have someone go, oh yeah, with that really expensive speaker. It's like, yeah man, it's your dreams. It's happened to me before. It's like, no, no, no more, thank you. And sometimes when people are drunk they just, they're like, no, I'll help, I'll help. You have got to say, no, no, it's okay, fine, thank you very much, I can do it, sorted, no problem. Anyway, right, that's enough of that and let's pause the camera and go and see the function.

2:42 Directly to the right of the roundabout is Steffi Park, Park Lodge

And yep, it's raining guys. Right, directly to the right of the roundabout is Steffi Park, Park Lodge. It's coming up towards us now. There's that big building just there. Okay, set up, took absolutely ages. This is the back. There's the hotel, there's the marquee and earlier on it was really windy so opening that door about 50,000 times and getting this stuff just Here we are. Right over there. Nightmare. Right, I've got the Cam Vortex over there. Now who's this? What's your name, sir? Ah, you don't know my name really. No, my name's Gwyn. Yeah, where are you from? Just up the road, not far to be honest. That's it, and you've come along for the night, haven't you? Definitely, yeah. Could you give us a hand? To see how it's done properly. Say again? To see how it's done properly. Oh, shut up! No, you don't want to come here then?

Nice one. We've got the Vortex mid and top there, 15 bass, we've got 2 amps there but I'm just running the 1 amp so I'm going in at the bass, out of the bass into the mid-top. Got the MEP in there with American Audio Cue Record, I think is it? Hold on a second. Let's have a look. It is... No, the QSD. That's the one where you can stick the SD card in. And... LED mystic. The reason I'm doing this, people always ask me what lights I've got. I've got the Sparkle LED 3 watts. I love those. They just, they set a nice ambient feel. And then I've got two of the Laser 3Ds. There's one there, one over there and that power bar. So I've got that at the moment like up-lighting but later on I'm going to use that sort of around this area. Also for the first time in ages, yes I can use a smoke machine. Woohoo!

5:50 Here we are guys and guess what?

Okay, like I said here we are in Park Lodge, Fetty Park which is situated just on the outside of Aberystwyth, well literally on the outside near McDonald's, Morrison's. This area here is more sort of cafeteria and then we've got a smaller bar where you saw the presents and then I'm in the marquee which is attached to the small bar. There you go. As used in one of the James Bond films, I believe. Just there. Well, here we are guys and guess what? The electricity went off. I've done a bit of a set and the band is over there. Yeah, they're over there somewhere. And the dance floor is sort of there. And the people are over there. And the lights have gone off. But all the lights have gone off. And I'm here. What you got there, dude? Hey, it's a big solid for me! Have fun. Jonathan. Definitely, definitely. No, it's alright, it's good actually. Nice one. I think you'll enjoy this. Yeah. I don't know if you can get this but I'm still packing up. Oh, is that for me? Oh, thank you very much. Thanks a lot. I've got some balloons. They're going to be forever in the dark.

So here we go, we're all locking up. Well it was windy today wasn't it? Yeah we are, oh terrible. It was windy. And yeah, I mean as you can see my wife, yeah she is as well, my life is exceedingly surreal, we have lots of fun. But would you like to take us out with some of the most interesting words in the world? Nice one, thanks a lot.

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