Leeds was muddy. Very very muddy. It rained during the setup process and turned most of back stage into a bog. The Radio 1 / NME stage was particularly messy out front where the punters were. Pendulum had a massive crowd appear for their set which churned the place up even more. Just before our lot went on they had an unknown US act play, which emptied the place out. It soon filled back up when the boys got on stage.

I was a little nervous about the stage setup for the show as there’s quite a lot of stuff to do in the thirty minute turn around time. It was frantic, but I got it done on time and am now a little more relaxed about the show. Reading festival tomorrow then off to Paris for a show.

I was working yesterday on a band night thing we have going on for under 18’s at the theatre. This is the first time I’ve done the lighting there in a while and I thought it could be fun to try and make a time lapse video of the event. You need quicktime installed to view the movie below.

I got a copy of iStopMotion a while back when I purchased the MacHeist bundle and thought I’d put it to the test. I set it to take one photo every minute for ten hours on my Canon 5D and the result is roughly a forty second movie file.

A.V. Club have an article up of genuine names for bands for this year. As you can probably tell from this short snippet below, they’re pretty dire and some rather funny.

Dyslexic Speedreaders
The Asbestos Tampons
SuperHeavyGoatAss
Butt Stomach
Harmonica Lewinsky

There’s plenty more names to view at their website, should you wish to entertain yourself with their MySpace pages!

The end of the month should prove to be pretty fun with regards to work.
I’m doing 9 days work on Little Noise Sessions, which is a series of music gigs for the charity Mencap.

Amongst the line up are: Babyshambles, Jack Penate, Athlete, Newton Faulkner, Biffy Clyro, The Kooks, Snow Patrol, Kate Nash, The Enemy and Keane. Here’s the full listing.

The new Kings of Leon album, Because Of The Times, sounds pretty bloody marvelous if you ask me. Hint: Click above to go to their MySpace site and listen to the whole thing before its released on the 3rd April!