01 Obsession

I guess it's okay to share some of the distant past from time to time..... Here's an old thing I chanced upon as I was archiving today - it's a comms recording from an event I had the pleasure of showcalling back in 2006 that I might say was a little under-rehearsed....

At first this might sound like a total noise - in fact, you might deserve a prize just for trying to listen to it... but actually, especially for those in our "industry", this is a real peach of a comms recording! -

We were doing Jackson for a well known televised music awards ceremony and things were not going well at all - mainly because there was no event director and the crew were making it up as they were going along.

The main voices are me - Spike Allibone the showcaller, Iain the First AD for TV (Doing a senior floor manager / SM job) and Rachel and Sarah who were getting the acts on and off including Lindsay Lohan and other presenters who also had no idea what was going on.
The show only got recorded from about halfway through once a very savvy sound tech realised that someone might enjoy or perhaps learn from listening to what happened "on cans" that day. What had happened before is sadly lost - since it was utter chaos!

Iain deliberately left his headset mic on during some of the negotiations happening on stage so that the rest of us could hear the nightmare he was having. Some of the real gems you have to listen hard quite hard for.... the actual time span of the show was much longer but you could call this a "highlights" edit. Otherwise it's 41 minutes of noise..... but, for some I've shared this with, it's pure laughable delight!

What did it look like on TV? - pretty good. Lots of the show is on Youtube if you care to look for it. The power of the edit!

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