Missed Yoga this morning as my alarm didn't go off.
Andy rang first thing to let me know he is going to pick up the speakers from Neil for me and then this afternoon I can go up to his with my mixing desk and test everything. Any is one of those friends who will do anything for anyone and I often tell him off for letting other people's problems become his problems. Often someone will ring with a dilemma and before you know it he is ringing round etc to try and fic it for them. So now the very things I moan at him for he is doing for me. I would like to think it's not quite the same as I hope he knows I would do the same for him. Quite often the people he does a load of running around for he only ever hears from them when they want him for something. We, however, check-in with each other and keep in touch when we don't need a favour etc.
He ended up coming to mine for the mixing desk so he knew what cables he needed to connect to the speakers. Within about 15 nin he was back at mine with the speakers and we had everything set up and tested. Andy is similar to me in that he likes things to be organised so we used coloured velcro cable ties for all the wires with a different colour depending who they belonged to. Blue for the other Neil (cos I'm sure he feels blue that he is not the original Neil lol), Red for Andy (cos he does a simply red tribute) and Green for me (GREENwood). Obvious really :-) Just makes it easier when packing everything away the other end.
Mad busy all day, downloading all Eddies music from his hard drive onto my laptop, making sure I have everything I need for the night. Checking how we are doing with raffle prizes. Sorting out everyone's hotel rooms as some people have travelled to Newport today to make a weekend of it. Justin did a quick venue visit for us and recorded a video of the room so we knew the layout etc before we got there and I could see the best place to set up the DJ stuff.
I managed to cancel one of the hotel rooms we didn't need this time before it went into cancellation charges, which saved me a bit of money. It would be easier to let everyone sort their own rooms out for the tour but if you do that, once people start booking the hotel ends up putting the price up cos they see there is demand. So I would rather block off enough rooms for the team before we announce the date.
Now things are starting to come together I am beginning to look forward to the next tour date. Once the night starts it's usually a great atmosphere and everyone has a good night so I just want to get there now.
Me and Layla did our Yoga at 8pm so that we haven't missed a day. It's so much better being accountable as it stops me just thinking "I'll just leave it today". Even the dogs try and get involved lol.
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