Gig log Dec 2009

0:01 Coast of Wales, if you look

Hi guys, I'm on the way now to a function in a place called Aberdovey, which is in Mid Wales. If you look, right, so what I want you to do, check out Wales. And if you don't know where that is, Google Wales. It's that little place somewhere on that big round thing. And if you look at the coast of Wales, if you look dead centre, you'll see somewhere called Aberystwyth. Above that you'll see somewhere called Borth. And then above that you've got an estuary and then you'll see Abu Dhabi. That's where I am. I'm in the golf club and I'm doing a wedding. Now, I did say in an earlier video about getting stuff ready prior to doing the gig, which is of course logically... No, I'll start again. If let's say there is the possibility of bad weather, then it's a very good idea to get all of your kit ready well in advance.

Now the trouble is, I live like in the back end of nowhere, so they don't basically grip the roads. So I've got to take great attention to the road surface and the way, you know, how much it's snowing. Because if I get snowed in, I'm basically stuffed. So what I did is I made sure everything was in the van, ready to go, and I took provisions on the basis of giving at least three hours to get to the gig. If you get caught in the snow, you're stuffed, aren't you? And we don't want to let people down. We're not in an industry, don't blur even our minds, we don't want to be starting this industry whereby it's, well, you know, a few drops of snow, sorry, I can't be bothered, put your feet up. I don't think I have ever let anyone down since I've been doing gigs and I don't intend to. So on the way there now, and when we get there, I'll give a bit of the old footage like they're into The Killers, The Cure,

What else do they want? They want Oasis, that kind of stuff. So it's going to be a bit of a rocky night tonight. And I've got the, like I said, I've got the Pioneer MEP7000, I've got the 5000 mixer and other few bits and pieces etc. Not a lot of kit because it's only a very small room but anyway I have not been there before, don't know and I'm sure I'll find out. Excuse me.

2:23 I don't know if you can see the lights in the distance

Okay, we're still on the way. I don't know if you can see the lights in the distance. That there is Abu Dhabi. Right guys, we're at the venue and like I've always said, expect the unexpected. Let me show you something. Okay, there's a golf club. And, okay, bearing in mind, that's the van there, okay? Now I have to go, this is reversing by the way, around here. Down here, let's go into night time. You can do night time on this. There you go. Okay, so I had to somehow reverse there, around there, but I had to take it over a level crossing and open gates, perfectly unexpected.

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