Event Review

In my opinion the event we put on was a good night, there was plenty of good thing that happened and there were plenty of bad things that happened. In this review or evaluation I am going to talk about my opinions on how the night went and what I think could have been handled better. 

The thirst thing I am going to talk about is my own role in the event that was Health and Safety, making sure every thing was safe for the public. I did my best to do this job and write down all the possible hazards I could find. There was only a few which included the stairs going down to the emergency door being quite close to the dance floor and someone could fallen down them, the multicore running over the tops of the doors we needed to make sure they were securely taped to the walls to prevent a tangled mess on the floor. The biggest hazard of the night was the pop a ballon game with a pin on the end of a stick, this proved to be a good money making game but was quite dangerous when drunken girls have ago, we did decide that the game was to be maned at all times and the pin to be kept behind the bar. These were the biggest hazards on the night and we just used gaffer tape to secure all loose cables running along the floor. 

The next thing we did after setting up was the sound check, the first band we sound checked was “Forbidden Opportunities” everything seemed to be going fine and we got them done in no time. After we had done there sound check we moved on to doing Jamie Brewer’s sound check this was an acoustic set and there was little to do really but again everything was fine and we didn’t seem to have any technical glitches and we had our sound check’s done in no time. After a small wait for the next band to arrive we had our last sound check done and dusted all within the time scale we set ourselves. I think that Leo did a really good job with all the sound checks and communicated well with the rest of us if we could help him in any possible way. 

After we had sound checked all the bands we had around an hour to sort any thing out and get something to eat. In this time we just taped any loose wires down, made sure everything was still set up correctly and then went to a take away for something to eat. After we had got some food it was almost time for the event to kick of but we had an unexpected blip. The problem was that “J.Carr” one of the performers that was coming late as we didn’t need him for sound check was stopped from coming in by the bouncers because he was under age, this was a huge disappointment for all of us. Luckily Dan was able to get up on stage and cover for him and do a 15 minute set to fill a gap and the rest of the gap was filled with some DJ stuff. I really respect danny for getting up there and playing and acoustic set with less that five minute’s notice, it takes some guts.  

The next band on after Dan’s set was “Forbidden Opportunities” we told them that they could play a few more songs than they would have been allowed, to fill some time in. This was only there second gig to date and I thought they did quite well and I am glad we booked them so they can get some more gigs from this one. After “Forbidden Opportunities” was “Jamie Brewer”, this guy was amazing and im sure will be someone to talk about in the future. There was by far the biggest amount of people watching for his set and the atmosphere when he started playing was grate, he was my favorite act of the night. 

After these two acts we had some music playing from the DJ booth for around 30 minutes before our head line band came on just to try and spread the night out. Our head line band was “Hero Syndrome” from bolton. These guys are truly brilliant and are such a good and easy band to listen to. We let them play a longer set if they wanted to and by the end of the night they appreciated everyone staying till the end of the night. 

After they had finished there set we had to pack down all the equipment and drum kit, this didn’t take long and with a team effort we had it done in no time. During the time we were packing down we had some DJ sets by Rob and Rick, without these guys between each act and at the end of the night there would have been huge gaps with no music. So I am grateful that we had them to rely on. Another thing that Rob excelled in was the lights on the night, with the Kolor bar having a good lighting rig permanently set up. This did make the night allot better and It makes a huge difference to have a good lighting man. 

On the whole I thought the night was really good, it set of quite quiet and picked up as the night went on. I have personally learnt allot from the whole process of putting a gig on and all the things I never though would even have anything to do with putting a night on, and now I can go out and put  another bigger and better night on for my next assignment.