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30-04-2010, 08:00pm
Crap. 
At work today, we announced the winners of a major literary prize. High profile speakers, important guests, all at work for a day-long seminar.
Today I thought was the perfect day to use our BRAND NEW hand-held microphones we haven't used before and use a sound engineer I haven't worked with before, what could possible go wrong.
First speaker spoke at the lecturn no problems, then both speakers moved to the chairs on the stage to chat and picked up their hand-helds. First speaker spoke, looked quizzically at the mic in his hand, spoke again and looked to me to see what was wrong as no sound came out. I grabbed two mics I had nearby and sashayed onto the stage in front of 300 people as if nothing was wrong, took the mics out of the hands of the two speakers and replaced them with the ones I had. I then did the walk of shame up the long theatre stairs past the audience. I walked into the tech room with the two useless mics in my hands and said to the sound engineer, JESUS CHRIST, you told me these things were on!!!!
He turned to me and said, 'they are'.
Thank god I didn't go with FER f*** SAKE! like I usually do.
At work today, we announced the winners of a major literary prize. High profile speakers, important guests, all at work for a day-long seminar.
Today I thought was the perfect day to use our BRAND NEW hand-held microphones we haven't used before and use a sound engineer I haven't worked with before, what could possible go wrong.
First speaker spoke at the lecturn no problems, then both speakers moved to the chairs on the stage to chat and picked up their hand-helds. First speaker spoke, looked quizzically at the mic in his hand, spoke again and looked to me to see what was wrong as no sound came out. I grabbed two mics I had nearby and sashayed onto the stage in front of 300 people as if nothing was wrong, took the mics out of the hands of the two speakers and replaced them with the ones I had. I then did the walk of shame up the long theatre stairs past the audience. I walked into the tech room with the two useless mics in my hands and said to the sound engineer, JESUS CHRIST, you told me these things were on!!!!
He turned to me and said, 'they are'.
Thank god I didn't go with FER f*** SAKE! like I usually do.
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