LIVE SOUND ENGINEERING
WANDERING OAK / STAR & SHADOW CINEMA / STEEZY NIGHTS
WANDERING OAK
North Eastern promotion company Wandering Oak have hosted an onslaught of amazing acts: Viagra Boys, Squid, SLIFT, Snapped Ankles, Black Country, New Road, Japanese Television, King Hannah, Kikagaku Mayo, Girl Band, TV Priest, Still Corners, Psychic Markers.
Working a Wandering Oak meant loading in each act, setting up the stage, sound checking each act, transitioning between each seamlessly, and packing down all equipment and often the stage at the end of a show. Great fun and hard work.
STAR & SHADOW CINEMA
The Star & Shadow Cinema is an independent cinema and live performance venue. I worked a lot of different shows there, from Afro-Latin funk extravaganzas Ladies of Midnight Blue, industrial techno pioneer JK Flesh, through to double-drummer noise brigade Cattle for the eighth Great Northern Amplifier Worship Festival, and a punk show by Blóm following the screening of Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution, a documentary about the queer punk movement.
STEEZY NIGHTS
Kay Greyson is an act I worked with multiple times. Twice was when friends and I put on shows at Bar Loco and Kommunity. We hustled to scrabble together the PA speakers, a mixer, a set of CDJs and whatever microphones and cables we could get our hands on to pull it off. Following the success of the first show at Bar Loco, we were able to hire the huge Common Unity Sound System for the Kommunity show. A great DIY experience.