Well, I’ve done the same job since leaving school. I work in music, which has given me some incredible experiences as both a live sound engineer and as a bass player. Playing a gig on a beach in The Azores at 2AM to 10,000 people or mixing a band on a festival to an audience of 40,000 is pretty awesome, but when it’s bad, however, it’s bad. REALLY bad.

Here are a few photos from the Blakey Ridge music festival in North Yorkshire last year. As you can see, it rained. When we arrived in the morning it looked like the gig may be cancelled. Eventually after much debating we set up and tried to make it work, but after a few hours the weather beat us and we had to quit. Once we loaded the truck with all our soaked gear, we needed a tractor from a local farm to pull our truck out (and guess who ventured underneath to attach the chain). We were soaked, muddy, extremely cold and p!ssed off, but hey… I’m gigging in nice warm arenas, theatres and concert halls in Portugal, Denmark and Norway for the next three weeks, so I don’t care 😀

Paul