{"id":54278,"date":"2016-09-17T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=54278"},"modified":"2016-09-26T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:06:48","slug":"anatomy-of-an-a-average-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/09\/17\/anatomy-of-an-a-average-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of an a average gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most \u00a0weekends for me go like this. Gig on Friday Gig on Saturday and Gig on Sunday. Some times there is one in the week as well. So its a bit like a rotating shift pattern.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite interesting to find out what people think it takes to do a gig. So here is an average description of a typical gig day. For this example we will say the gigs in Brighton.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNickGarner270953%2Fvideos%2F10154089715951939%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=400\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"54280\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/09\/17\/anatomy-of-an-a-average-gig\/2016-09-08-143\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?fit=1366%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1366,768\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2016-09-08-143\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?fit=604%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?resize=604%2C340\" alt=\"2016-09-08-143\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?w=1366&amp;ssl=1 1366w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-08-143.png?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong data-redactor-tag=\"strong\" data-verified=\"redactor\"><span data-redactor-tag=\"span\" data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">Anatomy of an a average gig<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Load the car, some gear might already be in the boot, but not aways. So about 25 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Drive to gig say about 90 minutes depending on traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Park on quite often double yellow lines dump the gear at the venue and zoom off to find somewhere\u00a0legal\u00a0to park.\u00a0 If your lucky its t down the street If not it might be a 10 minute walk.<\/li>\n<li>If \u00a0its a pub get some tables and chairs cleared<\/li>\n<li>Set up PA.\u00a0We use a 1K system with 2 300w monitors. That can cope with anything from the very small to quite large places. It takes around 40 minutes to rig it all.\u00a0Slightly\u00a0longer if we have the 5 piece\u00a0with Bass and percussion.<\/li>\n<li>Very quick line test &amp; Soundcheck 5 mins<\/li>\n<li>Get beer (very important as it\u00a0must be real Ale) \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Start first set which is usually about 70 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>take short break, attempt to flog CD&#8217;s chat to punters and go for a Pee 15 minutes ish,(the break\u00a0not the pee as that would be epic!\u00a0)<\/li>\n<li>Start second set, audience may be slightly pissed by this point which may or may not be a good thing LOL play about 50 minutes and if it goes well do an\u00a0 encore or two.<\/li>\n<li>Go for a pee, \u00a0sometimes chat to punters in the ladies. Example conversation.<br \/>\n&#8220;I enjoyed the set, my\u00a0husband&#8217;s\u00a0going to buy a CD&#8221;. Then suddenly a strangled cry from the other cubicle, &#8220;Shit there is no toilet roll, can you\u00a0pass some under the door\u00a0&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>Chat to punters and break down the gear and repack it. 30 mins, including muttering and\u00a0swearing when stuff won&#8217;t got back in the boxes and bags you took it out of like a\u00a0recalcitrant\u00a0ventriloquists dummy! Resort to shouting get back in your box. and I could swear that the mixing desk\u00a0talks back to me and says &#8220;No, won&#8217;t get back in the box&#8221;. Perhaps take it a\u00a0bit easier on the drugs&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Try and\u00a0remember where you have\u00a0parked the car and walk for 5 minutes in the wrong direction&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Finally load stuff in car.<\/li>\n<li>Get money. Hurrah! My children will not starve this week&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Finally drive home usually about 00.00 to 00.30 by now.<\/li>\n<li>02.00 Arrive home shift more gear out.<\/li>\n<li>Cup of tea quick snack take makeup off and fall in to bed about 00.03. \u00a0Discover that you can&#8217;t sleep so get smart phone out and go on facebook check news or maybe even watch TV.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So on average out for about 9 to 10 hrs, of which only 2 hrs is actually performing.<\/p>\n<p>Festivals and different as its someone else&#8217;s problem re PA and so forth, but often there is a lot of hanging about.<\/p>\n<p>Monday is my usual Sunday as it were. Thats the day that the aches and pains catch up with me. Also the day for updating websites and stuff like that. Check oil level on car and tyres. Thats fairly important as I do a lot of motorway miles. \u00a0Maybe work on one of my personal musical projects. If\u00a0I am really cream\u00a0crackered\u00a0the Tele goes on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0percussionist\u00a0Danny is going in for a cancer op and will be out of action for a month or so. He should be OK, though its unlikely he will be\u00a0able\u00a0to to go over to France in October with use. He played with\u00a0\u00a0us on our gig in Dorking on Friday which was really a great vibe.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0a very small world though as a women who knew about us because of a Bistro local to where she lived in France\u00a0came in just by chance. \u00a0Also in another\u00a0coincidence a guy who photographed us in France earlier in the year also turned up. Spooky. Perhaps Dorking is on a ley line or something? Or perhaps there is a multi-dimensional portal linking to south western France. \u00a0\u00a0Also spoke to a very\u00a0\u00a0nice chap who had retired to Lanzarote but was back over for a family occasion and he said he had really enjoyed the show. As you might imagine we quite a bit different from a lot of the acts that play on the pub\u00a0circuit\u00a0which is\u00a0a good and bad thing. We are a sort of musical marmite which you may or may not dig\u00a0particularly\u00a0as we\u00a0have\u00a0moved a fair way from what we used to do.\u00a0We now use a double keyboard set up and looping along side the fiddles and banjos so its a very different sound. It seems to go well though.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously the music I play in the <a class=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/deltaladies.com\/\">Delta ladies<\/a> has almost no crossover with my solo stuff which you can find here &gt;\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/dianastone\">Diana Stone<\/a>\u00a0and also here &gt;\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/glasscage\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/glasscage<\/a>\u00a0and here &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundclick.com\/glasscage\">http:\/\/www.soundclick.com\/dianastonemusic<\/a>\u00a0among other places. \u00a0 I used to get\u00a0college\u00a0radio play in the US way back\u00a0when and a few years back got some play on BBC Radio 6 on the Tom Robinson show which was nice and rather a feather in my cap at the time. \u00a0I have had always had very eclectic tastes in what I listen too and the music I write and\/or play. \u00a0I used to have CD&#8217;s for sale in the US in a store in Salt Lake City. God knows how that happened? Life&#8217;s always taking unexpected twists and turns and we are along for the ride, but like \u00a0riding\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0wayward nagg we can\u00a0steer with a light touch on the reins but pulling harshly may get us thrown into a brambly ditch.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress which is I find always the best bit.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-redactor-tag=\"strong\" data-verified=\"redactor\"><span data-redactor-tag=\"span\" data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span data-redactor-tag=\"span\" data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-style=\"font-size: 14px\">Here is my\u00a0\u00a0thought for the day<\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span data-redactor-tag=\"span\" data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-style=\"font-family: Courier\"><span data-redactor-tag=\"span\" data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-style=\"font-size: 14px\"><em data-redactor-tag=\"em\" data-verified=\"redactor\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier;\">Whatever you think they are\u00a0 thinking\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0probably\u00a0wrong and even if\u00a0you asked them they\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t tell you anyway so just suck it up and get on with your life.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most \u00a0weekends for me go like this. Gig on Friday Gig on Saturday and Gig on Sunday. Some times there is one in the week as well. So its a bit like a rotating shift pattern. It&#8217;s quite interesting to find out what people think it takes to do a gig. So here is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/09\/17\/anatomy-of-an-a-average-gig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anatomy of an a average gig<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-e7s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110920,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/03\/15\/interesting-gig-yesterday\/","url_meta":{"origin":54278,"position":0},"title":"Interesting gig yesterday","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I played a almost totally improvised gig yesterday at the Barley Mow Shepperton as part of the Delta Ladies extended line up. 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