Sean Lennon Day 3, Paris, FRA
Today we had a show in Paris, at the Solidays festival. It's easily the biggest festival I've ever been to. There were 5 stages, 4 of which are bigger than any stage I've ever worked on. It's insane.
The down side to today is that I managed to lose my phone. I don't lose things. This is really freaking me out. I can get a new one set up and shipped over with the special Euro deals I have, but it'll end up being a $200 mistake. Not cool. I also managed to lose one of the memory cards for my camera. Just not my day. Dave, our guitar tech, had a harder one. One of the stagehands plugged all the guitar player's pedals into Euro power sockets without converting the voltage. I've never seen so much smoke come out of a pedal board. It was spectacular, but basically all the gear was fried. If it was any other band, I probably would've laughed like crazy. This was not funny right before a show. Somehow it got worked out though and the show went on relatively unharmed.
Anyways. It was only a 20 min drive from our hotel, so we took our time this morning. When we got there, it was pretty much time for us to do our thing, so we got right into it. The stage we played had about 12000 people at 6pm. Wild.There were close to 40000 people on site. The other bands playing around the same time as Sean were Sum 41 and Lily Allen. Sum 41 had a massive crowd. I had no idea there were so big in France. At least 25000. Crazy. We saw the last bit of their set after ours was done, had some dinner and headed back. We went to - get this - a café for a couple drinks and food and decided to call it an early night. By tomorrow all jet lag will be gone and we'll be adjusted. It's a day off too, so we have all the time we need.
The down side to today is that I managed to lose my phone. I don't lose things. This is really freaking me out. I can get a new one set up and shipped over with the special Euro deals I have, but it'll end up being a $200 mistake. Not cool. I also managed to lose one of the memory cards for my camera. Just not my day. Dave, our guitar tech, had a harder one. One of the stagehands plugged all the guitar player's pedals into Euro power sockets without converting the voltage. I've never seen so much smoke come out of a pedal board. It was spectacular, but basically all the gear was fried. If it was any other band, I probably would've laughed like crazy. This was not funny right before a show. Somehow it got worked out though and the show went on relatively unharmed.
Anyways. It was only a 20 min drive from our hotel, so we took our time this morning. When we got there, it was pretty much time for us to do our thing, so we got right into it. The stage we played had about 12000 people at 6pm. Wild.There were close to 40000 people on site. The other bands playing around the same time as Sean were Sum 41 and Lily Allen. Sum 41 had a massive crowd. I had no idea there were so big in France. At least 25000. Crazy. We saw the last bit of their set after ours was done, had some dinner and headed back. We went to - get this - a café for a couple drinks and food and decided to call it an early night. By tomorrow all jet lag will be gone and we'll be adjusted. It's a day off too, so we have all the time we need.
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