Styxx wrote:On the Maiden-based theme, I saw Blaze Bailey last Tuesday at my local. In fact, my mate's band supported them, and I'm their engineer, so technically I've worked with Blaze Bailey... Even though I had fuck all to do with his part of the show :p Fucking good show it was though!

jonny_boy34 wrote:

Styxx wrote:On the Maiden-based theme, I saw Blaze Bailey last Tuesday at my local. In fact, my mate's band supported them, and I'm their engineer, so technically I've worked with Blaze Bailey... Even though I had fuck all to do with his part of the show :p Fucking good show it was though!

Haha, the same thing basically happened to me over easter! It was that 2-day fest in a pub called the Bedford Park in Streatham, Blaze headlined one of the days. I did the sound engineering for some of the bands (including Seregon on the 2nd day), but most of the time I just spent 'helping out' (ie. standing there next to the other engineer doing nothing). When Blaze played I pretty much just let the other engineer do all the work (which didn't involve much work at all anyway) while I rock out next to him, almost right behind Blaze. It was bloody hilarious. Great fun though! He really is a good old passionate chap, Blaze is.

jonny_boy34 wrote:

Stevedot2 wrote:Cool. My mate's band has played with Brucey's son's band, I can't remember what they're called though.

This leads me on to tell you about the ridiculous experience I had today! Good lord, this weekend has been unbelievable. I was doing the sound at Bar Monsta today, the 2nd day of a 2 day fest called 'Bullet Fest'. I was talking to the promoter at the beginning of the day, and he suddenly mentioned that bloody Bruce Dickinson's son was playing tonight! I went mad and excitedly told him that I was sitting behind him yesterday on his dad's plane and I couldn't believe the coincidence. Anyway, Austin arrive a few minutes after that, saw me wearing my Chemical Wedding t-shirt I got from the plane and pointed it out and said 'lovely boys!' or something along those lines, so I went over and started chatting to him and we couldn't believe the madness. I definitely couldn't believe the madness, and bloody hell! He's a very nice chap indeed, his band were really good too - musically not quite what i'd usually listen to, but they played really well, and Austin really does have the energy of his dad! Really good voice too. I gave him my card at the end after a nice chat and said "If you ever need a sound engineer..." It was ridiculous, it felt like I was asking someone out, that nervous but excited feeling of madness... I couldn't believe it.

What a thoroughly ridiculous weekend!

Oh and the Chemical Wedding film's about a man who becomes the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley or something - it's very confusing and very sick. Strangely enjoyable though.