DiS at the Camden Crawl: our Bullet Bar bill

Cheers for giving us a peek at tomorrow's bill. Means I can see something else in the Physics and Lovvers slots tonight. It's clash-tastic tonight.

Really annoying you have to queue for tomorrow's timetable tomorrow as well.

...a pretty fine line up there!!

M83 showed up late. Missed soundcheck. Were OK to do a line check, and toddled off back to their hotel.

Fine, methinks.

They return. A vital piece of kit is in France still (d'oh). I am on the phone to Crawl organisers, wary of the fact that overrunning = NOT GOOD. But there's a crowd, the venue's packed. A flurry of calls and texts later and it comes down to the venue manager to make the call. He says "Cool, we're busy, have them play on."

I try depserately to find the stage manager who is nowhere to be seen (I'd spoken to him outside and asked he DOES NOT pull the band off without me telling him what's what first); crowd is so dense I can't fight to the front. Two minutes later he's on stage, pulling them off, himself also aware that unless we've the OK from the venue we can't run over.

SO: frustration all round, which could have been avoided if the band was on time and had brought the right gear. I'm truly sorry so many came and didn't get a full M83 set, but it was beyond my control.

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