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Marketing innit? The BBC sell the coverage to networks all over the world. The more views they can generate, the more they can charge for it.

@Al Krow It's actually going to be an X32 Rack but we'll have a splitter in front of it; 1 feed to 'our' X32 to mix as we see fit and a 2nd feed (dry) to the FOH. @mike257 Sadly we've done a few (fake) festivals/theatre gigs lately where even the basics of giving us a rough FOH mix to our IEM (relayed in a tech spec to organisation/engineers month before) has been abysmal. I get that they have 6 bands in 9 hours to go through but little point in asking us for a tech spec if we get told 'Sorry, can't give you IE feeds. You'll need to have what we can give you in the monitors... Oh and can you start your set 'now' (this being when 2 members haven't had a line check and all of our gear is DI no backline)!" It is a tough job but we can't keep turning up to get 2nd rate foldback mixes when we've individually spent thousands on modellers and IE systems.

But we haven’t watched it all on Catch Up yet!

Memo to BBC: Glastonbury is over. Time to go home, have a good scrub and then you can tell your friends all about it. It's changed your life, you made new friends and experienced music that touched your soul. I.e. Stop posting articles about it! We get it! You went! Now, it's over!!

Legends? Maybe in some people’s eyes….

One of them still touring I think?

Thank you. I looked it up and thought, I should really have been able to work it out. Here's what happened. Firstly it has EMG pickups which in many cases means the knobs do other things. In the shop we found out they were passive (maybe) and, well, that didn't convince me they would be les paul set up. After another visit my conclusion is that the tone pots are shot and make a flutter of difference, sometimes. Who needs tone pots? Anyone who doesn't, I'll gladly swap with yours.

It hasn't stopped Rod

Haven’t ALL of them passed?

Whilst I take your point, if that's the criteria let's get The Bay City Rollers on!

If you set your A&H CQ monitor feeds on pre fade won't that give your IEM mixes isolation from whatever the sound engineer is doing with the FoH mix, and problem sorted? Or am I missing something obvious?

Bands routinely turn up to festivals using their own FOH and/or monitor rigs, backline, lighting packages etc and throw it on in 30 minute turnarounds. It's pretty standard. We had a 30 minute changeover at Glasto on Friday and in that time they cleared off the previous band, and we put in a backdrop, 3.5m LED tall set-piece flown from the roof, our own risers, half a trucks worth of lights on the floor and all of our own audio kit (consoles, cabling, mics etc). We got it all off again in about 4 minutes afterwards. Festival crews are well used to these sorts of shenanigans. The key is the preparation and communication - which starts way before the gig when you advance your tech spec and start a conversation with the audio provider about what you're bringing and what you need from them. If you do that - by the time you load in to the show you'll have already given the techs there enough advance warning that between you you'll have a rough idea of how you're going to tackle it. You'll probably have dropped your rack in place earlier in the show, got it powered up, already scanned for clear frequencies for your IEMs, have a loom/individual cables ready to connect your system to theirs - the more you can do in advance of the 20/30 minute changeover, the smoother it'll be. If you don't do this and just rock up 10 minutes before your changeover and say "can you plug this in?", you'll likely not be met with enthusiasm, but if you've properly advanced it you'll generally find techs will be plenty accomodating and happy to find a solution that works for all involved.

Yes I Do - Gregory Isaacs

Whilst I take your point, has your drummer’s dad sold 120 million albums worldwide?

Assuming it is a Spector Legend from your description. Almost certainly the knobs are volume, pan, bass and treble. generally volume at the front and pan closest to the pickups, but sometimes spector change that for a laugh. bass and treble should be reasonably apparent.

@Grooverjr: Is Schönberg bad music, because I happen to like it or is it bad, because there are lots of others who don't? (By the way, I am not so keen on Bach, Pastorius, and Nirvana. But I have played or sang some of their work on gigs.)

You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore

I have no idea, I just know my wife likes Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, 90's grunge and dance. Some of the jazz I've played her she has liked and some has just been disjointed noise. I suspect this might be the latter. Not sure if that answers your question.

Ah, like a participation award. That's what the pyramid stage is used for now! The drummers dad is over 80, he likes getting up for a sing, he's not great but he has a go and people seem to enjoy it, maybe I can see if we can get him booked for Glastonbury next time