The attached photo is of Ange with her Firemen in North Hampton - that's what happens when you put the Steamer underneath a heat/fire detector.....
Firstly I want to pass on my thanks to all & sundry who chimed in on my Birthday via phone, email, SMS, Facebook etc. Was great to hear voices from home & was great to chat to some of you. Thanks again.
Due to the nature of touring doing One Night Stands, we basically forget what day it is and each day is known as "Which Town Are We Heading To Now" Day - hence North Hampton-day!! We arrived in the morning about 1000 and it was like we'd worked there for years. After the previous few runs of venues we walked in, battle armour on, shotguns @ the ready, poised for action.... The boys were great - extremely welcoming, my ENTIRE rig was rigged, patched, coloured & focused & they had the best sense of humour & working style. It was like walking back into the Arts Centre in regards to the camaraderie that came out. Myself, Dan & Ange threw down our arsenel of weapons and basically kissed their feet!! I was focusing before lunchtime - a first & I got to play on the new ETC Congo desk & managed to get an entire version of the show plotted on disk - using my channel numbers!!
It's been weird with most venues - if they don't have a Strand, they're very hesitant to patch their dimmers across to my channels.... Which is especially weird when it's a one to one patch in their system.....!! For you non-theatre people - they have Switch 1 turns on Light 1, Switch 2 turns on Light 2 etc. and all I want to do is make Switch 3 turn on Light 1, which is very easy. Because we ended up with oodles of time in North Ham, I took the opportunity to get a full copy of the show on disk. It's not a bad console, some of the functions are slightly weird & not as easy as on a Strand but it wasn't terrible. I even went as far as editing cues whilst the performance was running - was very scary hitting "Yes" & "Enter" on a console I had only met that morning but the show continued on without a hiccup.
North Hampton was also one of those venues where, at the end, you want to cry. The show looked fantastic, prob the best it has been since Melb!! Just came back brilliantly & the terrible thing is we had to pull it down as soon as the curtain came in.... Nooooooooooo! That's the worst thing about touring - you do 2-3 shows and it looks OK but when it looks brilliant & it just happens, it's for one show only! D'oh!! Not to be - somewhere, out there, through the fog, down the motorway & around the roundabout it will look that good again......
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