Travis Stephenson
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Travis Stephenson
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Fictional Tour Manager for several bands including “Manchester Revival” and “Three Times Irish”
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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.
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.
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.
Ok. I’m a bit more with it.

I want to check things out and be there first today.
Yeahhh I’m awake… Urgh what time is it.

I have to be in at 7:30. Call is 8.
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.
Table of tired happy people. We made it. Wednesday feels like it was a month ago.
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
And that’s a wrap.

Shows ready. Let’s do this.
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.
Timing tweaks on a few cue sequences. Laser intensity in one section. Nothing major.

We’re ready.
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.
LD working through the sequences. Watching the beams cut through haze for the first time.

This is going to look incredible.
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.
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.
Running the show with full tech for the first time since Tuesday. Everything is working.

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

I’m in a mood 😡
Let’s take 15. Come back at 4:35 ready to work please.

Ugh.

Today is a rubber meets the road kind of day.
This is muddled trash!

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

Urrrrghhhhh
Stop asking g me to explain things. Just follow my lead.

On me! On me!
Warmup.. grumpily done.

Full run from the top.
They found it. A DI box was creating its own timecode. It’s fixed.

They found it about 7:30 this morning.

Heading in.

LD and sound tech going home to sleep for a bit. I’m gonna run the day shift rehearsal.
False alarm. All ok. Going to try to get some sleep.
“Headed out to Hackney with Emma. Marie’s alarm triggered.”