Show Day 8: Manchester

This too was an early arrival at the venue and the second university on this run. Load in was an hour later than normally and I went for little stroll around the area. Quite busy with all the students, but it had a nice vibe and some beautiful buildings to boot.

There was an industrial elevator at our disposal and rollies that we could use to get the gear and merch boxes up. One of the ways to get to the backstage was (surprise, surprise) via the stage. There still was a setlist on the wall from Duff McKagan’s show last week. Very cool considering Guns N’ Roses was a huge influence on me when I was a teen.

To our surprise we had to prep on the venue floor because the merch space wasn’t ready until 17:00, Not ideal but we managed… i.e. adapt or die! Once we got the green light to set up shop around 16:30 we got quite a few “lost” concertgoers asking us the directions the Academy 1 to this heavy metal festival called Fire Fest which was next to the university. A different building altogether. Also some guy asked me if we had any toiletpaper because the one in the disabled toilet had run out. Maybe we should charge the venue since apparently we are an info stand as well!Lue lisää