In short, Spain was amazing. What an incredible experience. If I'm honest, I wasn't really sure what I was going for in the beginning as I was asked a little last minute but, I was on the mixing desk a fair bit, sharing the role with other tech students, otherwise getting drunk (...What?) I'll walk you through the days.
Tuesday
So, First flight to Alicante followed by a night out in an Irish Bar immediately after getting settled in the villas.
Wednesday - Maggies
We had trouble getting to our first gig due to an issue with Taxis not showing up on time or even in the right place so we didn't have much time to set up once we had arrived and because of this the stage wasnt very well thought out. We had an electric drum kit to build which ended up in the centre of the small stage which didn't leave room for much else.
Totally lost most of my pedals that I supplied that night but I wasn't fazed.
Thursday - The Stray Sod (Acoustic)
The second gig was one of the best for me since one, I was actually doing something on the desk and two, everyone really got into it. We walked it to this one from our Villas. My highlight from this one was when Emanuel made a shaker out of his drinks and me are Mori called him up on stage. Also, there was a house band playing inside after us called The Cages.
Friday 3 - Maggies
The second appearance at Maggie's sounded much better since we got there much earlier with the help of a mini bus service. I did some live sound for this one too and turned Dan down too much. Too funny. It's all experience!
Saturday - The Stray Sod
Final gig of the tour. I did a lot of live sound that night and recorded some great videos of The Alphas performing and Harry's guitar solo.
Sunday
Shopping and Celebratory Drinks in the evening. (big kids were allowed to stay out into the small hours)
Monday - Flight home
Amazing!
Monday 18 June 2018
Friday 8 June 2018
Catch Up Post: HND Final Weeks
I've been absolutely rubbish when it comes to keeping up with this blog, probably mostly to do with my new found party lifestyle that seems to have arrived more later than it should (as a student... hmmm) combined with the fact that I've been busy, so I wan't to use this post to sum up the last moments of my course.
The last month was a bit of a stress. I didn't have much left to do really, but it didn't help that my Mac Mini's HDD decided to fail so I had no choice but to wipe it. Thankfully I didn't lose any of my work as it was all on my USB Stick, but then even that decided to fuck up and I had to format that too. Thankfully, that was just after I had sorted out my Mac, reinstalled the iOS and managed to still pull everything from it even though something wasn't quite right. Mayhem. At the worst time as well, when everything is due in! All of this delayed me in finishing my work that I needed to submit within days. Since I had wiped the HDD, I had to reinstall Logic and all of it's instruments and sounds since I was using some for my project so it was essential that I got them all back. On top of all this, we wasn't even fully aware that we also had to master all of our tracks for our final submission so everyone missed that deadline. Like seriously, everyone. Even me, Miss. Perfect Student ngl.
I managed it in the end and thankfully our tutor gave us an extension since he had actually given us a fair bit more work to do with little notice because of some dickhead external examiner. Ugh, that dude seemed nice too then he just hits us with a shed load of work that barely covers a unit. Prick. My tutor basically said I've pretty much wrote a dissertation just so he could tick one box, which ok yeah thats cool and reassuring that I can pull off that sort of workload in a short space of time but Jesus, where's the complains department for Pearsons at?
The last month was a bit of a stress. I didn't have much left to do really, but it didn't help that my Mac Mini's HDD decided to fail so I had no choice but to wipe it. Thankfully I didn't lose any of my work as it was all on my USB Stick, but then even that decided to fuck up and I had to format that too. Thankfully, that was just after I had sorted out my Mac, reinstalled the iOS and managed to still pull everything from it even though something wasn't quite right. Mayhem. At the worst time as well, when everything is due in! All of this delayed me in finishing my work that I needed to submit within days. Since I had wiped the HDD, I had to reinstall Logic and all of it's instruments and sounds since I was using some for my project so it was essential that I got them all back. On top of all this, we wasn't even fully aware that we also had to master all of our tracks for our final submission so everyone missed that deadline. Like seriously, everyone. Even me, Miss. Perfect Student ngl.
I managed it in the end and thankfully our tutor gave us an extension since he had actually given us a fair bit more work to do with little notice because of some dickhead external examiner. Ugh, that dude seemed nice too then he just hits us with a shed load of work that barely covers a unit. Prick. My tutor basically said I've pretty much wrote a dissertation just so he could tick one box, which ok yeah thats cool and reassuring that I can pull off that sort of workload in a short space of time but Jesus, where's the complains department for Pearsons at?
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