Pre gig log DEC 19th 2009

0:00 Snowed, venue

Hi guys, now there's quite a lot of logic to this particular video because outside it is snowing. Now this, when I say it's in real time, check when this is uploaded and you'll see exactly what's going on. But I'm getting my stuff ready and I'm probably going to have to go early to the venue simply because I don't want to get snowed in. If I do get snowed in then what do I tell the client? Well, under normal circumstances, let's say for example if I was ill or something like that, then I should be able to theoretically make arrangements on the basis that I can get someone else to go to the venue. But, now tell me if I'm right or wrong here, but let's say for example with reference to the snow and I get snowed in and there is no way I can get to the venue, where do I stand?

1:26 It's in golf course so it's going to be a bit of a nightmare

What can I do except try and make arrangements, phone other people and say, can you please do this function? If they can't, then I'm sorry. I am literally stuck here. But right. OK, so what have we got for tonight? Well, I've got that guy in there. I've also got MEP and I'm not putting an amplifier in there because I'm going to use powered speakers. But something just very important. All right. I mean, it's quite logical. www.ellaskins.co.uk And the trouble is where I've got to park, I've got to walk to the venue itself. It's in golf course so it's going to be a bit of a nightmare. But at the end of the day that's part and parcel of the job. A lot going on at the moment and it's round about Christmas time and I'll tell you what, I've got under my eye baggies and I'll be glad to just chill out to be quite honest. So with all that taken into consideration, what do you think?

2:21 Again for lighting, I'm just going to take a few lights

Alright, now again for lighting, I'm just going to take a few lights. And bearing in mind this particular unit here, okay? It's NSP, it's from a company in the UK, Flight Cases, NSP Flight Cases. There you go. The reason I do this, alright yeah, am I advertising stuff? Well you can take it or leave it, but to be quite honest, the way I look at it is if you're in a position where you can't go to a store and buy stuff, then videos like this are fantastic because basically what it means... You can see them physically being used and then you can make up your own mind. So on that basis, I am not. I am hopefully just showing people what the damn stuff does. So this guy here, if you notice we've got that there and that there. Can you see that area there? You can pull that down and then I can fit that across there, fit that one across there, and then I've got a complete console. So because all this is all in one, I can now put a bunch of CDs there, a bunch of CDs on there.

I'm going to probably take a 2000 CD player as well as a third entity because I've always said take another entity just in case. So there you go, I can put one of my sort of speakers in the bottom there as well for transportation and a few lights. Practice and enjoy and Merry Christmas.

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