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Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1h

Doing the final checks before we open doors.

30 to doors

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2h

Crew meal. Bit heavy tonight. Some days we run tour. Others tour kind of runs us.

We got this.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 4h

Shauna now running through her set. Shamus’s set was.. perfect. You’d never have known they were at a funeral just hours before.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 5h

Shamus and crew just got back. Quiet. Fatigued it here.

Sound check starts now. We will make this quick and run Shauna’s abbreviated sound check and things should land at dinner break.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 6h

Honest mistakes happen. It’s just touring chaos. Nothing is broken. Just crunched for time while we wait for hvac to clear.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve had show stops before.. but rarely a pre show show stop..

Marie helpfully refilled the haze machine but had the wrong bottle.

Tested the hazers for 2 minutes expecting wispy fog.

We can’t see the rigging and they can’t see the ground. Visibility is 0.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 7h

Getting Shauna’s production ready while we wait. Klara’s running things from monitor world. I’m handling stage.

Rigging crew is hanging lights, everything needs to be ready when Shamus gets back.

Klara toured for a while as a bassist in a femme power punk band that’s still touring

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 9h

Shamus and company just left. Funerals at noon they should be back by 2:30. Usually they sound check at 2. Going to be.. tight.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 11h

Rainy and kind of gross today. Klara is putting together monitor world with her chair. I’m handling the stage layout.

Shamus and the band leave for the funeral at 11.

Learning a bit more about Klara as we work together.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 12h

I’m awake. I think it’s still raining.

If you are coming tonight Frankfurt bring rain gear. Looking at the schedule I don’t think we can do early doors.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 21h

Back in my room. Guitars out, practice changer warming up. Everyone showed up tonight except Tomas. Even Penelope’s back. Early night. Tomorrows complicated.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 23h

Group meal, everyone’s talking about the week. Three shows down, good momentum. Shamus and crew are quiet. Tomorrow’s going to be heavy for them.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Quick check of tomorrow’s space. 2700 cap. Load in starting at 10. Shamus and company should be back by 2. Tight schedule bit it’ll work.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Arrived, checking into hotel. Everyone has the evening off. Show tomorrow. Funeral tomorrow. Monday is going to be… interesting.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Shamus got a call. Funeral tomorrow in Frankfurt at noon. The bands going. We have a show tomorrow night. Timing works but it’s close. Klara and Ai will hold down the fort.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Bus loaded, everyone’s settled in. 4.5 hours to Frankfurt.

Antwerp treated us well.

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Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone needed this. Two shows in, day off to recover and we drive during the day.

Coffee and checkout by 11.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Two shows down. Load out complete, truck packed.

Tomorrow we drive to Frankfurt and then half a day off.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Called the winner up mid set. Fiona from Spa chose a real banger from Shauna’s second album. Band hadn’t played it in 2 years. Nailed it anyway.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Shamus crushed it again. Antwerp loved the bagpipes.

Stage to me. Shauna’s on in 8 minutes.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 1d

Pipes are warm
Aisle clear
Hold positions
Klara has the stage

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Half hour to doors

Final checks with all departments

I’ll even maybe grab someone and walk the rope line? Antwerp would you like that?

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is dialed in. Raffle drama sorted. Two hours until doors. Second show.. we mostly know what we are doing now.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

Ok. This is why we have lawyers. So we don’t run an illegal raffle without knowing it.

Free tickets at merch and monitor world. (Pre show only at monitor world)

Same prize. Different approach.

Travis Stephenson @cfdevents.bsky.social · 2d

📣 CORRECTION TO ANNOUNCEMENT. RAFFLES ARE ILLEGAL IN BELGIUM. RAFFLE IS FREE.📣