The Mutech Show

After months of planning, the CD launch party finally happened. The event was held at the Upper Brown Street Theatre (the old Phoenix Arts Center) on the 19^th of May. The crew arrived around 2pm and we started the day with a short team talk and  Elliot handed out awesome crew t-shirts he had made especially for the event. The crew then set about their duties, setting up the stage, instruments, mics and FOH desk in a double quick time. The sound-check went a little pear shaped, but we wouldn’t learn anything if it always ran smoothly.

The show was scheduled to start at 7pm but due to lack of audience members, the start of the show was delayed by 20 minutes. This gave us a little more time to round people up and throw them into the auditorium. The show generally ran ok, although it would have been nice if we had attracted more of a bigger crowd. But I guess that’s the biggest trick to running a successful live music event.

Band of the night had to be the Tall Orders. Not only because I was engineering the sound, but also because they have a stage presence that I’ve never witnessed in an unsigned band before.

Overall I think the show was a success, we didn’t sell all of the CDs but we managed to raise £115 for charity, so that’s never a bad thing. The whole project has undoubtedly been a great experience and it has certainly amplified my ambition to run a record label, although I don’t think I’d too keen on running a live event again.

Read other crew members thoughts about the event at Jake Brennan and Peter Collins blog pages.

All of the Mutech crew, in fetching t-shirts!

Stress be gone!

It's been a stressful week, but it's been a productive and worth while one.

I delivered an awesome presentation on analogue and digital audio principles, survived a near fatal bus crash, finally completed GIRP (pointless addictive game) and have continued working towards Mutech's CD launch, which manly consisted of a team building exercise in one of Leicester's finest student bars.

Check out Jake's blog for further development of artwork for Mutech.

Time for a relaxing Friday evening with Alley Barber.

For anyone that cares go check out this site, it has links for a few free plug-ins. Nothing special but there is a half decent frequency analyser amongst them.

Album of the week, is Metric's excellent "Fantasies"

Enjoy

Time to snap out of my online laziness!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a while since my last post, admittedly I have been busy but that's no excuse for not keeping this blog updated.

So what have I been up to.

Well, the past couple of weeks I've been running the sound for Billy Liar at the Little Theatre. The show was fairly simple to run, with there only being 14 sound cues during the show. But the experience was invaluable and i'm looking forward to running another. Here's a review!

More exciting recording news as Ricardo Wheelband has just secured us an opportunity to record the Leicester Symphony Orchestra at their upcoming show at the De Montfort Hall. So we're super excited and currently planning how to conduct he recording.

Educational wise, my college class is currently working together to put on a CD launch party for a compilation album, containing bands that members of the class have recorded. I was voted into manage the project and it certainly seems a hard task with each meeting turning into a riot. But it's certainly fun and the project is being to pick up pace. Check out Peter Collins and Jake Brennan's blogs to view their side of the project and also to see design plans.

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Right as for now, time to watch a bit of the horrific England Cricket display, then it's off to college, before crewing for the tech run for Three sisters at the Little Theatre tonight. So a long day ahead!

Laters Potatoes