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Im on tour through september throughout the UK with a theatre production called "Moscow by Night" doing the sound for the show. If by chance anyone is comming to see this show drop by the sound desk and say hello we'll have a bit chat.

Andy

Sounds interesting Andy. What Cities/Towns (Villages?) will you be at?

Date Venue Location
Tue 7 Whitley Bay Playhouse Tyne& Wear
Wed 8 Caird hall Complex Dundee
Thu 9 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Glasgow
Fri 10 Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Sat 11 Rhyl Pavilion Denbigshire
Sun 12 Buxton Opera House Derbyshire
Mon 13 Worthing Pavilion Theatre Sussex
Tue 14 Octagon Thatre Somerset
Wed 15 Queens theatre Devon
Thu 16 St Davids hall Cardiff
Fri 17 Harrogate International Centre North Yorkshire
Sat 18 Darlington Civic Co.Durham
Sun 19 Epsom Payhouse Surrey
Mon 20 Victoria Hall Stoke on Trent
Tue 21 Hull City hall East Yorkshire
Wed 22 Travelling Day xxx
Thu 23 Grand Theatre Swansea
Fri 24 Everyman Theater Cheltenham
Sat 25 Everyman Theater Cheltenham
Sun 26 The Playhouse Somerset
Mon 27 De Montfort hall Leicester
Tue 28 Harrow Arts Center Harrow


Thats all of the dates.

I dont exactly know what the show is, all ive been told is that i have to provide sound equipment for 7 musicians.
I do know there sgoing to be some dancing, giymnastic, ballet, singing and folk dancing but dont know what the show entails.

Sounds intersting though..

Alright folks...just got back home from the first show...heres what it involves..
Basicaly its a show with russian dancing,singing and ballet.

A ruskie! comes on at the start of the show and the stage is set in winter and he warms up the crowd priming everyone for what they are about to see. Then there is some russian dancing based on a winters day, impressive with high kicks and flips.
Then, im tryin 2 remember the order because the preproduction show as in a different order so i may b getting ixed up here. anyway..im pretty sure the band plays now, acorddian, balack (russian guitar type instrument, dunno if ive spelt it right?) bass balack, and another guitar type thing..very good musicianship but we need to sort out the bass sound for tomorrow at dundee..and another hing, their sound engineer speaks in very broken english so were having very hand animated conversations at the minute..i still dont know if he really understands me and im not sure if im understanding him but he was happy tonite with everything.....
Yess...i digress..so the show carrys on through the different seasons with a mixture of badn instrumentals...ballet...gymnastics..and russian dancing.
if you like seing impressive gymnastics and dancing,,then this is yr thing. ifound some of the singin a little tedious but the dancing and gymnastics were very, very impressive.
I dunno if ill have much internet acces during the tour, but if you do decide to go to one of the shows ill be sitting by the mixing desk nexto a russian bloke dressed in a army uniform?? give me a shout during the intervall and well have a chat!
Catchaalllater!!

Andy

i was going to pop down to the Dundee show tonight but I'm nightshift ... could say its total balaks!

andycoates wrote:Wed 22 Travelling Day xxx

XXX!!!??

FINALLY!!! got internet access.....being hecktick... i spelt the name ofthe guitar wrong..its balalayka (spelt phonetically) Dundee was a good gig, Glasgow has been the best so far..i now have my own part in the show. I look after backstage sound now that Andri the russian sound engineer is confident, i walk on stage with microphones for the band and walk off again, whehey,,,,the russain ballet dancer andother Andri summed up the show tonite, he said in boken english,
"what are these called in english" cupping his hands like he had breasts so i told him and he came out whith the perfect line to see the show...
"come to see moscow by night and see many russian girls and many tits!"
maybe you had to be there....well i must go and get some kip....
PS... the russians drink many many whisket and this ha been my staple diet on a night time for the past week and a half..they just keep buying the three of us englise crew, whiskey...