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Heavy Metal Hell
Now I know people think that a Festival is about the music. I'm afraid you're wrong. If Ambrose Bierce had been writing his Devil's Dictionary today he might have written thus:
Music Festival: An event where music lovers pay through the nose in order to be allowed into a field. So they can pay through the nose some more. There is also some music on.
Let's just hope the weather's fine.
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Industrial language...
...heard at work last night after one of the PA Company crew, pushed a flight case onto the stage lift 8 inches before it had reached the level of the stage:
"C_ _ _ S YOU FUCKING MUPPET! You can fuck your gear if you like, but if you fuck that lift. I WILL FUCK YOU!"
A completely reasonable threat if you ask me. If he'd fucked the lift, it would've made the load out a lot harder for everyone else.
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In which I hang out with a lady of leisure.
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Degrees of separation.
I think it's one of those degrees of Kevin Bacon type things. I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner.
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Preparing for some of this Summer's big noisy wastes of electricity...
The Vinyl signage, you know all those handy 'Toilets', 'First Aid' 'Guest Entrance', 'Emergency exit (with running man)' signs that you see plastered all over festival sites. The Scaff' pipes that support all the signage, bins, fence panels, that are used round VIP and guest areas. Well they're stored somewhere during the winter. We've been to that place to sort them out and then load them on trucks.
Not a bad couple of weeks work, but. Yes there's a but. There were only two of us working on the job most of the time (we had a couple of extra blokes in last Monday to help us sort the scaff' out.) The bloke I was stuck with for the last two weeks is a nice enough chap, but talked nonsense constantly. It's as if he feared his brain would seize up if he wasn't talking. Maybe he can't live inside his own head like I can (I suspect there's a hollow echoing space inside his head). Maybe it's me being used to being solitary and self contained.
By the Thursday of the second week though I was starting to go spare. This was a dangerous thing, I could see the people from the office popping into the warehouse to find me caving his head in with a four foot length of scaff' yelling "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! with every blow of the pipe.
At lunch time I rang four different pals up to try and get some sensible conversation. All of them went straight to answer phone. During a tea break mid afternoon I sat drinking tea and wishing for half a pint of rum and a line of cocaine as fat as my finger to hoover up. Anything to lift my spirits. Then joy oh joy. One of my pals rang back. A quick five minute phone call, talking nonsense. My sort of nonsense, not my colleagues nonsense. To a pal who is a genius wibble master helped me get through to the end of the day.
Friday we had another bloke in to help us. Phew.
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Have you seen this man?
So we might have a bit of excitement tonight. Probably not though.
ght. Apparently he's got some mad stalker bloke who's threatend to kill him. A picture has been circulated amongst all the crew and the security are having a great time being all extra secure and gossiping worse than old women about the 'situation'.
So we might have a bit of excitement tonight. Probably not though.
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Have you seen this man?
So we might have a bit of excitement tonight. Probably not though.
ght. Apparently he's got some mad stalker bloke who's threatend to kill him. A picture has been circulated amongst all the crew and the security are having a great time being all extra secure and gossiping worse than old women about the 'situation'.
So we might have a bit of excitement tonight. Probably not though.
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