Quote Originally Posted by ampassasinbirmingham
ahh sea wolf. i just got there as that was playing. quality:):)
hehe that was mine :-) Interesting comments from people, we did suffer from some very nasty technical gremlins, here's my tuppence worth...

(a) Yes, Regis was ill, but thought Tony stepped up to the mark admirably - as you would expect.

(b) Bjorn's MPC blew it's internal fuse about 5 minutes before he was due to go on (meaning I had to play for about 45 minutes longer than planned) - unfortunately no way to fix it without taking the whole machine apart, and fuse would have been impossible to find a replacement for anyway. Very frustrating for all concerned, he had flown over from Denmark especially for the event :-(

(c) Sound system was working fine (and, to my ears, sounding great) until about 3 hours from the end when the left hand side started cutting out. This is a problem we have had at the Sanctuary before, and it's annoying that they hadn't fixed it. Of course we knew nothing about this before it started happening, and then there was nothing we could do about it. Complaints about there being no top-end at the back of the room etc seem a little picky, although granted there should have been more PA onstage.

(d) Regardless of any of this I thought it was a great night, good to see a decent turnout, now all we need to do is find a venue where we can go back to doing it regularly (Sanctuary, Custard Factory and Subway are unfortunately not options for various reasons...). Any suggestions?