Epica Tourreport #3

Today we're having a day off in New York City. Right now I'm in the tourbus which is standing at a hotel just outside Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey. I'll be going into the city in about an hour or so, but first here's tourreport #3.

Friday 7 september

We are at The Chance, Poughkeepsie NY. A kind of old ex movie theater with a very big balcony. Unfortunately the balcony stays closed because of lack of audience. The only one sitting there is Erwin, our LD :-)

Of course our Austrian friends are here as well :-)

At getin I had a bit of trouble with the local soundperson, Rob, but after a while he got warmed up :-) and was very nice and helpfull

Mariska and Willem are having fun ...

Saturday september 08: Mark's Place, Bedford NH

Kind of a bizar place to do a show. We're playing in a room with a very low clearance (on stage you can touch the ceiling).

Next door there is a titty bar, good thing is we're having free entrance!

There's a whole bunch of pool table's, some of them are doubling as merchandise stand. During the show people are still playing pool ...

It was a good concert, I got some great help from the local soundguy Jim, enough beer afterwards on the bus, and after everything was done we drove to New York City, yeah!

Sunday september 9, Highline Ballroom, New York City

We drove to a hotel just outside the city in Jersey, to shower, and also to pickup the guys from Visions of Atlantis, who would join us on the bus for the trip in and out of NYC.

Here's Shane, our busdriver from Arkansas.

The hotel had some nice views:

We went through the Lincoln Tunnel to get into NYC.

The Highline Ballroom is a new place, it opened in May this year. Inside it's very nice and clean, great audio gear (JBL line arry, PM5D on FOH and and M7CL for monitors). The audio persons were nice and helpfull (thanks Jones and Jim) although they took their time getting all the lines to work. Erwin wasn't having a good time, because the lightperson was not familiar with his own lighting board, so although they had plenty of moving heads Erwin wasn't able to make full use of the equipment.

All in all it was a great show again, I finally succeeded in getting my recording gear to work so a got a good recording of the board as well.

Loadout in the middle of street in the stink of the fish market ;-)

OK that's it, more pictures as allways at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jstekelenburg