Memoirs of a Lunatic

Never work with amatuers.

I arrived last night to engineer for the gig, and i see Cas having a smoke outside. I ask him what hes doing there. “I’m engineering tonight” …yeah, problem.

Turns out the stupid bitch organizing it had booked 2 engineers. I was the guy that did her last event (about a month ago) and afterwards she asked me to do the next one, this was backed up by a couple of emails. But she also booked Cas for the evening, 3 to 4 weeks ago… so very soon after booking me!

When she turned up she seemed confused… she didn’t realize she had booked Cas. Her excuse? “I’m really sorry! I got drunk on Saturday night and got confused” …She got drunk? What kind of a fucking excuse is that!?

Me and Cas talked about doing the gig together, maybe get the pub owner to pay him and the promoter pay me… but in the end i let him do the gig. 2 engineers for that little place is too many. It seemed only fair to let him do the gig because he’d traveled a lot further than me and was relying on a lift at the end of the night as his train fare is pricey.

I ended up charging the stupid one for my petrol… really i should have charged her for lost earnings too. I had to lose a shift at work in order to do that gig, and in the end she fucked up!
Even more annoying, is that my work phoned me today and asked why i didn’t come in last night… the manager who had supposedly gotten my shift covered hadn’t, so it looked like i just didn’t bother to show up!

If she emails me again and asks me to do another gig for her she can stuff it!

Let that be a lesson to all, never EVER work with an amatuer… especially an amatuer promoter who gets drunk and hires extra engineers ¬_¬

ZOMG it be good!

I feel like a seriously big kid at the moment. Yesterday i got to test Little Big Planet for PS3, and its amazing! It deserves all the hype its got, and a lot more! Its just one of those games that puts a big smile across your face.
I honestly couldn’t fault the thing. Every aspect of the game is well made, and it leaves you satisfied… there are so many games that are good but ‘could do with this’ or ‘its missing that’ but LBP just seems to tick all the boxes!

Honestly, go out, get a PS3 and come October make sure you get yourself a copy. Game of the year, no doubt!

In other news i’m doing a gig tonight… not sure how its going to turn out. Last time i was at the venue they didn’t have any mic stands! They’d had a band in that broke half the equipment… so i had to trundle off to the local theatre and borrow some of their stands.
That was about a month ago, so if the busted stuff hasn’t been replaced then i won’t be happy in the least… the theatre closes at 10:30pm, so if i don’t get the stands back by then it means coming back in the morning. If that happens i’ll have to put my prices up when i work there, which i don’t want to do but i may have no choice.

In other news i’ve been giving some careful consideration to my working at the pub. I’m getting more work in games testing now, and it would be nicer to take that on as a more permanent placement, rather than my ‘bit on the side’.
I’ve also been thinking that rather than sit there and complain about the pub, i could actively try and change some things. I’ve been there long enough and have enough knowledge of the place now to apply for the ‘team leader’ role… that would put me in charge of my colleagues and make me responsible for delegating tasks… one of my main bones of contention is that people don’t carry out work that obviously needs to be done. And at the end of the knight we’re kept waiting around for ages because there aren’t enough team leaders to check over the work.

I need to ponder over that some more i think… its a small pay increase, but i’m just trying to figure out if i care.

*Trundles off to get ready*