Black Bear Tewkesbury.
Large venue, absolutely rammed.
Previous sound complaint issues have meant an in-house FBT PA which you ‘plug in to’. Fine in concept, but it’s underpowered for the job it’s trying to do. Result = all the tricks in the book to get sufficient vocal volume over the top of the acoustic drums and the hundreds on people. Just about…phew.
IEMs all round took away the feedback problem the support band had wrestled with.
The real problem was the arse at 11:15. Pissed, arrogant and obviously thick.
We are playing, and you are gesturing that you want to speak to the singer and then me. Mouthing back that we can’t hear you, (IEMs) and that you should just gently bugger off.
And what did he want of a band who’d been playing classic rock all night? Wonderwall.
I must confess, I told the door staff that he’d been aggressive- he was ejected.
Please forgive me. 😘