We had our first show last Saturday night for the sponsors and another showing more more sponsors on Sunday. The opening was last night, technically. We had some long damn days, one where we got home a little after 4:00am, and then had to be at the theatre at 9:30 the next morning. That's the reason why there are only pictures that have been taken either in the theatre or from the car on the drive below.
I've worked on shows that get edited as they go along, but this was nuts. Remember that Shiamak sign that was hanging above the audience? It's next to the dumpster and has been since Shiamak first saw it. He saw it as bragging; so I can't imagine how many man-hours must have gone into making and hanging that thing, and it's gone like that. Things change nightly. The order of the show, for example! Luckily, we made a good decision in light boards to run this show. I won't bore you with the details, but we've found it very applacible to our situation on this show. Not only to we have this board, we got an Australian for a few days. The guy in the picture with David over the light board is Alex Mair and he was one of the developers of the console. It was a blessing to have him there, he answered a lot of questions and got us out of some tight spots. He smoked a lot of cigarettes (miss you Katie, Sonia, & Brian) and played a lot of solitaire on his computer, but it was still a blessing to have him there. Oh, CJ, this board stole your idea. Sorry.
The picture of the other pasty white guy down there with the saxophone is this guy named Nigel. He's a world renowned sax player and has played with a lot of musicians and at countless festivals, he plays Englishman in New York with Shiamak here... and to make it better, he's from the Isle of Skye in Scotland where I visited this summer. He even played at the music festival that I went to.
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