Memoirs of a Lunatic

Never work with amatuers.

September 2, 2008 on 7:54 pm | In Asylum |

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 ¬_¬