festivals and all that
once again, i had worked the summersonic festival. this time, it was with dp, a guy that has a hit song going. really nice people, fucked up schedules. what did i get myself into, 4 shows and 2 soundchecks in 4 days, one was a live performance on national live tv.
now, 4 shows in 4 days is fine. the problem was;
day 0, production meeting that lasted 5 hours? i shouted at the absurdity of the situation.
day 1, show 1: solo show in shibuya, fine
day 2, show 2: live tv show, 7 am load in, 6pm run through, 8pm on air. in between all this, festival soundcheck, 90 minutes away. gear trouble 1 minute before showtime!!!
day 3: festival show, tokyo
day 4: festival show, osaka
i worked sooooo hard this time, i had been sleeping pretty much since it finished, last monday. i don't even have an opinion on what the shows were like, all i cared was getting it done, and getting it done so that the quality was objectively there. i find out that i am not superman and cannot do 2 things at the same time in two languages. no matter how wired up i was.
i had hardly any time to watch the other bands, but managed to catch a bit of metallica and flaming lips. the lips were nice, lots of balloons. metallica sounded pretty good. also saw some other bands on the same stage, the feeling seemed alright, also saw green gartside in the dressing room area, gawd, would of wanted to see scritti politti live. also wanted to see the daft punk lighting, but no time.
i write like a retard, since i feel like a retard. touring does this.
i was able to hang out with dennis, techno extraordinaire from sweden, he looks after bands like the hives and the cardigans. collector of various gadgets. we geeked and had a nice yakosoba and drinks with the cardigans (thanks for the drink!). talk of publishing a geeeeeeeeek book.
made friends with the band and crew, they're apparently back here in november.
the new air travel regulations are quite confusing. i usually have more hardware with carryon, this fucks up my packing procedure, entirely.
to show how much lack of fun i was having, here's some proof.
i didn't even think that i was carrying around a camera till the last day!!!