NMA at The Live Rooms - Chester March 16, 2022...

[jc]

Mr Monck usually does front of house sound for the Band and also some backing vocals, a very nice man.

Cheers

jc

[8]

Mr. Monck usually does front of house sound for the Band and also some backing vocals, a very nice man.
Cheers
jc

Thank you SO much JC!!  You're a star!!!

So Mr. Harvey wasn't there then?  How about Mr. Scanlon, did he work the mini UK tour also?  I didn't recognise the guitar tech, looked like he might've been a new guy.  Sorry, too many 'stupid questions', but the mechanics that goes into putting together a great NMA concert is equally as fascinating to me as the band and the music itself is.  I love this kind of thing, and I still would if it were some unknown band.  I love music to bits.  I love the entire process, ALL the processes... but most of it goes over my head.  Still, I find all of it incredibly interesting (major understatement). 

Question open to anyone who is able to answer.  In good faith.  Cheers.

[Winterwulf]

There's some good footage of the Frome gig been posted on Youtube, I was looking to see if anyone had recorded '1984' as I was interested to see what they were doing with it. Liked the comments from Justin linking it to the furore over the P&O sackings ( the directors should all be struck off over that as they have knowingly decided to break the law), and it reminded me just how well Justin managed to capture the bitterness and division the miner's strike caused. For all the tories who were wailing about the campaign to try and get "Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead" to no.1 after Thatcher died, I'll just say get out of your comfortable, complacent bubble and understand what the strike did to the pit villages and why she is still so hated...

[Bunny]

Yeah but that is a tough one for me as a non Tory. I dont dispute she is despised, and after all this time, it may have been the right time to move away from coal, we'll never know. The flipside was unions crippling the country.
However I cannot sit comfortably with celebrating the death of anyone, just because they had different political beleifs. Its tasteless and classless. By all means dont mourn and raise your grievanves. I dont think anyone agrees with how it happened. But celebration of someones death is just wrong. She wasnt Hitler, she didnt kill people.

Imagine the boot on the other foot and Tories having a party when say, Blair dies. How wrong is it?? Or having a joke pop song if Corbyn passes. Its beneath contempt.

I do agree that P and O need hauling throught the courts because that was a cynical cull. I hope no-one ever sails with them again.

[Winterwulf]

The deep bitterness still felt in the former pit communities is not about difference of political belief, it's about what was done to them by the establishment for political reasons. Yes, she didn't have people killed but ask yourself, how many premature deaths resulted from the aftermath of the strike, whether those who just gave up hope and withered away,  to the victims of the heroin that came in to fill the emptiness for too many young people once the pits were gone?

I should also add that I personally consider Scargill was hardly blameless too, he let his own vainglorious belief in himself as the leader of the revolution take those who put faith in him into utter defeat. A cannier leader would have fought a subtler and more flexible battle, knowing that some pits would have to close and doing their best to keep as many jobs as possible while getting the best deal they could for those they could not. As for tactics, an extended work to rule is often a much  better way of forcing concessions from management without beggaring the workforce, when management come to realise just how much of business relies on staff goodwill and overtime...

[Hughie]

Mr Monck usually does front of house sound for the Band and also some backing vocals, a very nice man.

Cheers

jc

DM is on stage sound;  PH is front of house.

[jc]

Yes sorry that was me confusing front of house for stage.

Cheers

jc

[8]

DM is on stage sound;  PH is front of house.

Cheers Hughie!   I SO appreciate behind-the-scenes tech bits, explanations, clarifications!  They make the whole live experience even more thrilling, exciting, enjoyable, rewarding!

1.  Is it Mr. Monck that comes in at the 1:20 mark, (from stage left, just by Ceri) during this 'Bittersweet' clip from the gig in Port Talbot?

Ok, please humour me.  Teach me something.  I'm being serious.  I'm genuinely / equally as interested in the technical side, as the music itself.  So my follow-up question is...

2.  What happened there at the 1:20 mark that Mr. Monck(?) had to plug a cable into what I believe is referred to as a monitor, situated by Mr. Sullivan's left?  As a someone in the audience (had I actually been there) I wouldn't have noticed anything was off or not as it should be.  If that thing is not called a monitor, then please, somebody tell me what it is called.

3.  What do those monitors do anyway?  I'm assuming they are there to help the musicians out and not the audience, correct?  How those monitors help the musicians on stage, I have no clue; however, I am really, really hoping someone will jump in here and teach me something new.  Yeah, stop laughing.  I'm serious.  I find all of this terribly exciting / fascinating!

Questions are open to absolutely anybody willing to share a tiny bit of technical insight.  In good faith...