Psychometric Vision

April this year gave us hope we were asked to do the chill out room for a big organiser in Liverpool. This would be for Psychometric Vision and their night Soma Sonic a huge dance event with in Liverpool and would be paid quite well for the work.

The organisers sorted out a transit van for us and came to pick up the rig the day before. Me and Rick went with them behind in the car. When we got there it was planned to be in a large and very old factory in the city centre. The room we were using was on the very top floor and was extremely difficult to move the huge cabinets up to the forth floor as the staircases were very narrow.

Once in place we began to set up the sound system and run it in. This was a good idea at the time but the owner of the building came up to see what we were doing and unfortunately dust was coming down from the ceiling. Straight away we stopped the rig and had to re-think the placement of the system. The problem had been that the organiser knew we had a sound system but didn't ask about the size of it. We then had to relocate to the floor beneath where we were. This wasn't a problem but was quite hard work to then move every thing all over again.

Once the rig was in place Rick chose to stay at the venue over night while I went back home for a good nights sleep as i knew from previous experiance that the event would be all night and hard work.

The next day when we arrived we started to help put up the decoration in the room we were using and ran the sound system to warm the drivers. By 9pm when the doors opened to the public every thing was ready and sounding great.

I stayed with the sound system through out the night and we had updates and the amount of people coming in at one point we reached 3,000 and had to stop entry. I also lost some of the DJs slotted to our room and had to go and hunt for other people to play. Due to the type of event that was going on this was quite normal all be it stressful for me. Here is one of the pictures of the decor and rig.

You can see the sound system just in the corner.

The night was a great success we really enjoyed every part of it. The most annoying thing about it was that when we were packed up and ready to leave by 11am our transport was no where to be seen and uncontactable. This was hard we were tired and just wanted to load the van get home unload and go to bed. We were kindly given cups of tea and bacon butties from the organisers and continued our wait.

At 5pm the van finally turned up and Rick came and got me from my car where i'd gone to have a nap. Loaded up and ready to go we journeyed home to bed.

The night was a fantastic experiance but in the future we will organise our own transport so that we dont have to rely on others who may not turn up on time.