It was to be a nonstop jaunt from Christchurch in the south island of nz working our way from town to city all the way up to our hometown of Auckland for the nz music month afterparty..
Well In general 2-3 gigs in a day are a bit of a chore and getting them all to work out is at best a mission, let alone ten in varied places with different guitar amps you've never seen or will get half an hour to plug in and set up.. we had about 5 minutes from getting to venue to unload and tune up 7 guitars, and set up 3 pedal boards, drum cymbals, and our loops. Then try the fastest amp dial in, and line check and make sure all the leads go to the right place.. 5 minutes for all that is incredibly tight.. buck luckily I was working with some great crew, Joseph our soundguy and resident inhouse guy for The bedford in Christchurch and a new friend I can't say high enough about called leon who was on pedals and guitar change overs with me.. we nailed show after show after show..
every show went off without a hitch - aside form the last auckland show, but we'd gone back to in ears on that show and probably should have kept to monitors maybe for ease of fast setup after the day.
it was a 22 hour long work day and we must have covered thousands and thousands of kilometers.. we even had a birdstrike that grounded our plane in gisborne.. but did give us a well deserved rest for an hour..
we were playing 20 minute sets in each town, which were the new single Pins and some other favourite opshop songs.
We had the best airline crew, who even let me sit in the jump seat for the landing into nelson which was a once in a lifetime experience.. the view form the cockpit was unreal and the amount of dials and switches was quite overwehlming compared to the few i have to deal with on the average guitar amp..
for more info on our day I'll leave it up to the news people to tell the story..
our tenth gig was on board the plane at 30000 feet above MT Cook..... a rather nice view indeed
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