On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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sooooo many of thesealways because stupid people make stupid mistakes and bugger things up for me and the band - for example cue the three of us walking on stage in a school infront of 1500 kids and the microphones not comming on or the bloody backing tracks.
We were stood there like chumps after bursting through a screen and all that was on stage apart from us was a defunct old piano. Sooo Dave from the band runs over and digs through crap and starts playing this old piano and we sing a song thats not finished improvising the chords on an out of tune piano.
We thought we were sunk when the song had finished but after a what seemed like a life time the croud erupted in cheers and they loved us (god only knows why) and then the backing tracks and mics kicked in.
odd and scary but good
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SiX and his hat, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 13:19,
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