Martha Wainwright Day 1, Washington, DC (9-10-08)
I haven't had a break yet after getting home from the European dates with Chromeo. I've spent the last 2 days preparing for my run with Martha, and the first show is tonight at the 9:30 Club in Washington.
The day started off like any other... Woke up, hopped in the van and picked everyone up before heading out of town. The thing about that is that when you live in New York, picking people up adds some serious time to your travel. It took me 3 hrs to drive around Brooklyn and get everyone, and when you add that to a 4.5 hr drive, it can get long... I had to leave my place by 8am so we could get out of the city for 11am, and even then we left a little later... Alas.
So the drive down was uneventful and we actually got the club a little earlier than I'd expected, so all was good. It was a pretty smooth afternoon, and I actually got a dinner break, which is rare when you are tour managing and doing sound on a tour. I was able to hook up with one of my friends from the Sean Lennon and Morcheeba tours and we hit up a wine bar for a quick dinner.
The show was interesting for me tonight. It was their first show with a new guitarist, and with no dedicated keyboard player. As a result, some of the keys parts were played on guitar, and some were changed a little so the guitarist and bassist could play them on their smaller keys setups. It was definitely a different sounding band from the last time I did a show with them in July, but it was cool. I think it's going to be a good run.
After the show, we headed over to our hotel, which was sold out for the night, so it was good that we had reservations. Despite that, there were still a couple problems with the rooms. In particular, I was given a key to a room that already had someone in it, so in an effort to find an empty room, the front desk sent a security guy up and down the hallways opening doors until he found an unoccupied room. Amazing.
The day started off like any other... Woke up, hopped in the van and picked everyone up before heading out of town. The thing about that is that when you live in New York, picking people up adds some serious time to your travel. It took me 3 hrs to drive around Brooklyn and get everyone, and when you add that to a 4.5 hr drive, it can get long... I had to leave my place by 8am so we could get out of the city for 11am, and even then we left a little later... Alas.
So the drive down was uneventful and we actually got the club a little earlier than I'd expected, so all was good. It was a pretty smooth afternoon, and I actually got a dinner break, which is rare when you are tour managing and doing sound on a tour. I was able to hook up with one of my friends from the Sean Lennon and Morcheeba tours and we hit up a wine bar for a quick dinner.
The show was interesting for me tonight. It was their first show with a new guitarist, and with no dedicated keyboard player. As a result, some of the keys parts were played on guitar, and some were changed a little so the guitarist and bassist could play them on their smaller keys setups. It was definitely a different sounding band from the last time I did a show with them in July, but it was cool. I think it's going to be a good run.
After the show, we headed over to our hotel, which was sold out for the night, so it was good that we had reservations. Despite that, there were still a couple problems with the rooms. In particular, I was given a key to a room that already had someone in it, so in an effort to find an empty room, the front desk sent a security guy up and down the hallways opening doors until he found an unoccupied room. Amazing.
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