Ok, so I am writing this whilst eating cold bacon and eggs and drinking a cold coffee with REALLY cold toast and warm butter, so it may come out a little negative – but don’t let that affect your interpretation of the following.
The Longreach Civic and Cultural Centre is not.
Sorry – back to the food for one second, the bacon just made me almost vomit, twice – this is absolutly discusting. How could anybody make something I love so much do that to me – that is just rude – oh – and the toast, well – if you too would like to simulate the experience ben and I are having – get a large thick bit of cardboard, but some butter and orange marmalade on it – and bite… mmmm.. nice isn’t it?
Now… back to the “venue”
Right, so – we arrive at the “venue” and notice that the “venue” doesn’t have a “loading dock” or even a fucking “door” onto the stage. There was nobody there to meet us, and not a seat in the room, just a big… empty…. “venue”.
So then, we looked up….
The “venue”‘s front of house for both LX and Sound was… well… the same as the FOH for the patrons, essentially non-existant. There were a couple of side FOH bars with a lamp or two (well – three) and two very small Peavy something or other piss ant car type speakers mounted on the wall so fucking high that they didn’t even have a chance at filling the front. Anyway, what I am trying to say here is, there was really nothing FOH.
Then, the “venue” “manager” arrived. Please, do not get me wrong, he was terrific he helped us unload, got us some cold town water and gave me the padlock for the council gate for when we finished (yes, we had to lock up the “venue” ourselvs)
We found out that the extent of their tech was already hanging, but the Mayor did have a PA for outdoor address’ – which we used as stage fill and FOH – it sat behind cat and dane.
Anyway – ben and I and the “venue” “manager” carted in the fake stage, the rosi and everything else through their “loading dock” (an emergency exit at the OP side of the “venue” at audience height basically of to the edge of the stage). It was a good 10m to the stairs up to the stage then onto the stage – what I am trying to say here is it was a cunt of a load in.
Then, we did the show. It was… good.
Then – we bumped out, it was… LONG… and fucking horrible.
We finished at quarter past one, our latest yet (yay) and now we have to drive to.. um.. capella or something and do it again. oh boy, am I fucked.
While I have you, what I said before about Alpha still stands, that place is an asshole of a town and… do not go there, make sure you understand that.
The Loooong… reach. by Troy Kelly, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
