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As a thankyou to the blue room people, and because I was recently asking about sending 1080p over 30 meters here last week, and received much help, here is a timelapse of the event for your interest.

 

it seems we were one of the few venues they managed to commit to as dick mills has recently been ill.

 

 

I had the most amazing day with these guys, Keiron Pepper is a legend, dick mills roger limb and paddy kingsland are my new best friends.

 

We did have a few issues with the rental PA but on the whole, what an amazing event

 

thank you blue rooom I think you are all amazing

 

http://vimeo.com/91791380

 

I tried inserting the vimeo link but wouldnt work, so its presented this way instead

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Had to chuckle at the chap who came to sit in front of the mixer just after the RWS kit arrived, and then stayed there in almost the same position, doing nothing through almost all of the set-up and soundcheck (and, it seems, the show itself!). I think we'd all like his job ...
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not the best comment I would hope for.

 

That is my very dearest friend Alastair, he was my plus one, so he came in the back door early, invited to watch the setup because like me, we have worshipped the RWS since the 60's.

 

As my guest he gets the best seat in the house, right by the mixing desk for the 5:1

he likes good audio too.

 

he is also diabetic, so for him to sit calm and take in this amazing spectacle unfolding before hime was probably best for his health. I would never expect a guest of mine to lift a finger.

 

I'm glad you enjoyed the timelapse, thanks for watching it. thanks for your comments........

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Time lapse is very unforgiving of people who don't move much. I doubt he'd approve of your diabetic = a need to sit calmly! Diabetes isn't a disability!

 

It's always interesting to see the process at different venues. I'd have liked to have seen the show, I was always a fan of the RWS. It looked like it would have been great.

 

For those that missed it - how was it done? Live music and pre-recorded stuff, or totally free running, suck it and see?

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95% live. The boys did an amazing job, roger played a few bum notes. It was a very late show, the rws kit arrived late so we had a bit of a panick start.

M23 accident held up the rws kit.

Everything was live, keyboards, midi and audio, video played from stage, live percussion, keiron is a genius, prodigy need him back. Huge amount of wire on stage. Classic keyboards all plugged in played live.

The rental PA was horrible, really harsh limiter settings needed help before we could finally go up.

 

Alastair likes the fact I I account for his diabetes, he does the same with my gay, so sorry if that's an annoyance. It's how we are.

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Sounds good!

 

I got almost pinned up against the wall when I taught in a college for not treating people with diabetes the same as the others. I know what you mean when he appreciates your support - the youngsters I met left me in no doubt at all that they didn't count it as remotely disadvantageous. One I remember seemed to control his diabetes with Mars bars - he was a dancer, and after heavy workouts his blood sugar was all over the place, and he new the symptoms so well, he'd be able to inject/eat to deal with it. Probably not what the doctors approved of, but for him it worked.

 

The history of this forum is that we're well known for being very intolerant towards all sorts of things - often new members dig themselves big holes and get really cross the membership bite. The nice thing is that we've never had to moderate a single post for anything bad about people's sexuality. We've even had a few university research topics on LGBT issues, and they just couldn't understand why nobody was bothered in the least!

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We get production companies setting up in our venue on a daily basis.They all have an obbsession with setting up a time lapse camera.Our in house team take great pleasure in moving it for companies who are not nice to work with.

Really? They have got nothing better to do than to be difficult? It's not like it imposes on your house crew is it?

 

Edit: Unless your house crew tend to stand around and do nothing... and don't want to look bad? ;)

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Really? They have got nothing better to do than to be difficult? It's not like it imposes on your house crew is it?

 

Sadly this seems to be true for a lot of venues I visit (particularly council-run ones for some reason). I've been to venues where a new member of staff has been a delight to work with only to return a year later and find that they have sunk to the same level of uncooperativeness as the others. I have come to the conclusion that working as house crew long-term in the same venue is bad for your karma or something.

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not the best comment I would hope for.

 

Don't get me wrong, I didn't make that comment with any malicious intent - it just made me chuckle that there was a theatre full of sped-up scurrying people being watched by one person who, even in a time-lapse video, remained almost entirely static for long periods of time! I think many of us probably know someone within our circle of professional acquaintances whose work ethic runs pretty much along those lines http://www.blue-room.org.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif.

 

It was interesting to see how intimate the venue appears to be, though - I'd have thought the Radiophonic Workshop, doing one of their rare live performances, would've played somewhere a little larger, as I'm sure there'd have been a demand for tickets. I've watched some clips of their previous shows (at the Roundhouse, I think ...?) on Youtube, and they seemed like a great evening.

 

Sadly this seems to be true for a lot of venues I visit (particularly council-run ones for some reason)

Steady on - don't tar us all with the same brush! I work at a venue which is owned by the local authority, but which is a producing house as well as presenting touring product for part of the year. We have a large, and extremely capable, full-time technical staff, and make sure that we give visiting companies the best experience that we possibly can.

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It is an intimate venue, 212 seats.We have someone here who is good friends with RWS so that helped a lot

No offence taken at the standing around comments

I time lapse a great deal, iPod touch is easy to set up and leave running, it's not for any purpose other than my enjoyment, and in this case for the RWS as they liked it also.

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I dunno - I think music like that, particually if it really was played in 5:1 format over a surround sound system would be brilliant in a venue that size. The lighting was nice, but you could just close your eyes and get totally absorbed in the soundscape without it seemingly being lost - or hearing it more over delay speakers etc etc. I would much prefer it there than a much larger theatre or something of that scale . . .
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I have been asked to amend that any problem we encountered with the PA was not the fault of the hire company as it was a dry hire.

 

I dunno - I think music like that, particually if it really was played in 5:1 format over a surround sound system would be brilliant in a venue that size.

 

yes it was in 5:1 live in a small venue

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