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Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing on the schedule for tomorrow. Actually nothing b sleep in. Coffee. Croissants. 🥐

Maybe walk around the neighborhood.

Monday I’m on a flight but tomorrow’s mine.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 3h

Emma’s making dinner. I’m half watching something on TV, not really paying attention.

Strange to just… be here. Not going anywhere tomorrow.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 6h

Home. Suitcase out. I fly out Monday. Laundry going. Theater blacks are the easiest to take care of.. as long as you check all the pockets.

First time in months the flat doesn’t feel like a hotel room.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 8h

Called my mom in Vegas.

Everyone wish her a Happy Birthday

I need to get home at some point. Not quite sure how to make that happen.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 9h

Truck is packed. Studio is clear and swept. Paperwork signed. Out before 3pm. That’s a win.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 10h

Tomas has everything inventoried and ready. Shauna and some pals stuck around to watch the count. It’s their money they should see how it works.

Numbers look Good. Tomas walks them through his system. Efficient. No nonsense.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 12h

Lasers are down, sound is packed, backline loaded. Still need to break down monitor world and the snake and put the finishing touches on the truck.

Lukas is a pro at truck strapping.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 14h

Merch Manager Tomas showed up right on time. Long hair, band tee, energy drinks ready in hand.

Quiet guy, barely says 10 words but as long as he’s squared away and gets the work done and doesn’t need a lot of supervision we are good.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 15h

Band is all here. We are assembling the small mountain of road cases and pelican cases. LD Lukas is already in the air to get the lasers down..

Aiming for a 2 pm finish if everything goes smooth.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 16h

Ok. I’m a bit more with it.

I want to check things out and be there first today.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 17h

Yeahhh I’m awake… Urgh what time is it.

I have to be in at 7:30. Call is 8.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Actually home at a reasonable hour for the second night in a row. (Well reasonable for tech week and theater work. )

Tomorrow we load out, run the first merch count then Sunday we rest before I fly out Monday.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Table of tired happy people. We made it. Wednesday feels like it was a month ago.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Taking everyone to dim sum. Shauna’s choice. First dinner tradition- my treat.

Celebrating getting through this week.

I don’t say this enough- it’s the honor of my life to be able to work with talented people and bring amazing art all over the world.

Thank you each and every one of you for you

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s a wrap.

Shows ready. Let’s do this.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Emma just arrived with paperwork from Evelyn that needed signing. Marie needs to see some of it too.

Handed Emma the visitor headset while I signed. Butter a mix with comms, click, and FOH. She listened to three songs.

“How do you hear all of that at once.”

You get used to it.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Timing tweaks on a few cue sequences. Laser intensity in one section. Nothing major.

We’re ready.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Everything together- lights. Lasers, haze, sound, full production. First time seeing the complete show.

Shauna’s barefoot, found objects sounding perfect, Marie’s locked in. This is what we’ve been building towards.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

LD working through the sequences. Watching the beams cut through haze for the first time.

This is going to look incredible.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Final rehearsal day. Add the lasers, run the whole show with haze. Make sure everything we built this week actually works under stage conditions.

But first coffee and warmups.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Calling it a day.

Tomorrow we add haze, lasers and final polish. Saturday we load out and count merch. Sunday we rest. Monday I fly.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Running the show with full tech for the first time since Tuesday. Everything is working.

Finally.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Tech team is back. Rested. Thank god. We can salvage a bit of today.

I’m in a mood 😡

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s take 15. Come back at 4:35 ready to work please.

Ugh.

Today is a rubber meets the road kind of day.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

This is muddled trash!

We have a show in a week and this is hot garbage.

Urrrrghhhhh