loads of things can happen in just a few days...

-working at Budrising festival was great craic! i got a call on wednesday to work on thursday on georges dock for the budrising street party(they realised they didn't have enough people at all) so i was there on thursday to rig with sandy, fergal, maty, gar, gareth, and loads of other people! we had problems because the truss was bigger than the top of the tent but after thinking for a while we finally found a good height and length! but fergal had to change the whole rig and decide on the go where every light was going!

i went back there on saturday to check the beauty of the rig, where i learned that the guys found a dead body in the river just behind the tent on friday... freeky! i keep imagining me finding this guy while working on thursday, aaaaaaaaaaah.

then i went to the Village to see The Ting Tings http://www.myspace.com/thetingtings/ and even though it was really short, it was a really good set full of energy and the most amazing thing is they make you realise you can do great live music with only two persons on stage! the singer rocks! then went to check out a club where one of my techie friend is doing lights, worst club ever, it reminds me when you go to some people's party and find yourself listening to shit 80ies dance music because you have to stay for a while to be polite... went home early as i was supposed to be working at 8 but got a call at 1am just before going to bed saying i have to be there for 10am instead! nice one

on sunday morning i went back to george's dock to de-rig the whole thing, we were finished at 3pm but we had to wait for the truck, of course... ;-) then i went home for a while before going to the sugar club for the budrising after party. it was 9.30 and the party -with free drinks- was only starting at 11.30. i stayed there for a while checking out Red Snapper http://www.myspace.com/redsnapperofficial/ . good musicians but i don't like their style at all. then i went to the tripod (thanks Simon for the guestlist) to see Trentemoller http://www.myspace.com/trentemoeller/ and same story, brilliant dj, but not my thing. then finally back to the sugar club for the after party where a few heads were still awake/alive enough to show up! chris (my frenchie sound engineer), paul and amber, darius, enrico, bob, jack, liam and myself had a good night on free booze (and not only bud yoohoo!). saw a few other persons like ronan (brilliant designer) but it's a bit of a blur. ended in darius' for a few more. we slept there. and i called a cab to go back home the next morning ;-)

then monday/ or was it tuesday? i can't remember... i learned that my father is sick, not the flu, more serious than that, a lung infection, still waiting for the results of the analysis...

then tuesday (for sure) i got a call from fergal who was very happy with my work at the week end, and says he's going to recommend me for other jobs, and asked me to be one of the lampy in a venue which is re-opening in Dublin + to cover for clubs and gigs in another venue in Dublin! yay!!!

oh and i found a non-opened bottle of Abs......vodka during the de-rig... score!

so a festival, a dead guy, 3 concerts, a free booze party, working in two more LIVE MUSIC venues, and my father getting sick..... can the next days a bit quieter please?