Gig log End Nov 2008 , School function.

0:00 I'm doing a function near a town called Shrewsbury

Alright folks, here we are on another gig log and we're on the way to Llangurig at the moment. I'm doing a function near a town called Shrewsbury. It's a college and it's their Christmas function. I'm going to stop off in Newtown to pick up Organic 1966 and a guy known as Dave And he's going to help me a little bit, and little does he know, but I'm going to bung him on for a while, let him have a little go. So I can go and, I don't know, just have a bit of a jig perhaps. Anyway, also, a bit of advice for you. You can, if you want to... Post all of your gig logs as a video response to a video I did a couple of days ago, and I will put this one as a response. So all you're going to do is follow the link underneath this video. So let's pause the camera and let's see what happens today. How are you doing Dave? Okay, here we are in one rather large sports hall. And what they've done, they've got a marquee in the sports hall. It's looking pretty bare at the moment. Less than torn. It is, yeah. I mean, Paul over there...

We've spoken to him before from Solid Gold Agency. A couple of things here, I don't know if you noticed we've got floor tiles. So with the use of the floor tiles plus the fact, if you imagine here we've got the internal part of a marquee. Now basically a marquee quite often in a posh function you'll have the external part which of course will keep the rain out and then the internal part. So what's happened here is we've got all this in here. And the floor tiles, therefore we do have better acoustics. We're sort of slowly setting up and we'll give it a blast very shortly. So here he is, Mr Paul Cowjoy, on his knees. With one of the most essential tools of the trade, of AV or disco, duct tape, also known as gaffer tape.

2:42 With gaffer tape, which is why

Any self-respecting mobile DJ should have gaffer tape. Apart from it being absolutely marvellous for making bodge repairs, it stops people tripping up over loose wires. It also looks a lot tidier. And the tidy disco, like anything, like a tidy book when you're doing your homework at school, if you started a new book to write in, you always did better work than you did when it got dog-eared. That's right, and by the end of it... There is one thing I want to show you with gaffer tape, which is why a lot of people don't use it. And I'll show you exactly why. Here we are, we're going to gaffer a lead down and I'll show you why a lot of people don't like it. It's 7 o'clock at night, 6 o'clock at night before the gig, and you're gaffering your leads down to make them safe. And to make them nice and tidy. There we are. Now then.

This is a daft thing, but this will save you a lot of heartache. I know exactly what you're going to do. And a lot of cleaning wires. Yeah. People come along, they see that. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's some staff in the hotel. Maybe it's your rodeo helper. They grab the loose end. And they pull that up. And they pull it up, which I'm not going to do because when you do that, the tape goes round the wire. That's it. And it is a nightmare to get off. Yes. This is how to pull gaffer tape up. You put your foot on the wire. You pick the gaffer there, put your foot there and then off it comes. And then you can reuse it as well? You can. Yeah. And the thing is if you don't do that, it gets wrapped around the wire. Yeah, and it's a nightmare to get off and then also when you get it off it's sticky. Exactly. Nothing to do with fancy DJing but let me tell you something, when I'm looking at a mobile disco and I see gaffer tape around the wire, do you know what it tells me? It tells me the DJ...

He's a little bit dodgy because he can't look after his wires properly, which are the tools of his trade, just as much as his disco mixer. He's probably got some other weak spots. So remember that. It's like going out in a good suit and not changing your underpants or socks. So we're near enough. Set up. It's now 20 to 6 and we're invited to... The DJ Tutor, the DJ Tutor, the DJ Tutor.

5:08 Hold on a minute

Hold on a minute. There's nobody here yet. My goodness. And then there was silence. I'm going to be looking at these during the week as well. There's that one. There's that one. That one. That one. That one. That's a festive one for you. That looks interesting. Here we go, folks. A bit of a crazy night, good fun. You've seen before, during and this is after. Yes, dismantling time, always a pain in the arse but fair dues, Dave's been helping me, top man, top man.

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