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Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

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 · 5h

Ok. I’m a bit more with it.

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

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 14h

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 · 16h

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

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

And that’s a wrap.

Shows ready. Let’s do this.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Finally.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

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

I’m in a mood 😡

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

This is muddled trash!

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

Urrrrghhhhh

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

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

On me! On me!

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

One more time.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Warmup.. grumpily done.

Full run from the top.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

False alarm. All ok. Going to try to get some sleep.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

“Headed out to Hackney with Emma. Marie’s alarm triggered.”