AC/DC
So far the dispatch for this Mega show is going well, Far too well. I expect to be 90% called show as we roll into the stadium for the staging set up. This time, as I'm so far ahead and doing this as electronically as possible everyone will get a call via seniority by me and I can really brush up the call list. I mean, I don't want it to become another Madonna experience. Where we were frantically trying to call the production out and people got missed or those who didn't call back right away got lost from work. Plus, with Aerosmith canceled alot of guys are thirsty for work, which bodes well when i get to calling the low people on the list.
Hopefully the U2 is as easy as this... but that's in October when their is lots more competition for casual labour as the olympics cranks up. ( I really wish we weren't having the olympics, I think it's really screwing with the cultural groups here. My show schedule is all over the map this next season, With huge dead spots in the calender. Supposedly booked by the olympics but I have as yet to see events listed or advertisements for events - I hate the idea of having to going on E.I. while foreigners who are trucked in due to the olympic rules, are working the games.. I guess we will see. That plus the bill for the event that keeps on looming bigger and bigger while the province argues the HST debate )
That, plus the shitty American economy - B.C. was the only province to cut back on spending on arts groups since the start of the world recession. Ballet B.C., which was in the worst audience numbers last year is on program life support and reorganizing but god knows how all the other arts groups are doing. The worst hit are The Electric Company - Due to a horrifying personal loss to the family that runs the group. Which might put on hold they're 2010 show. As I don't know the group or work with them at any of the venues I work at, I don't want to write much more. I just want them to know that my heart goes out to their family.
Although I had to pull out being called for the PNE and sort of unemployed right now, I'm glad to be out from under "Les Miserables". 210 shows of that is just about enough for the next few years. I wonder if the company will get the rights again ( they hope to as it was a full summer sell out, which is tough to do in Vancouver when everyone is beach bound - let alone when the Winter olympics looms as a ticket competition ) But, I'm betting it's a very slight possibility that they will. But, if so I'll certainly work it again. I doubt it will be as long a run, but the cast was great and the crew really bonded well.
I just hope I can continue to save for my own place... I do however keep looking at classic Porsche 912's that are for sale in the US and Canada So, I keep telling myself that without a real home with a parking space it's not good to own such delicate pieces of motoring history. Still, 11 grand for a rebuilt 67 912......Wimper....
So far the dispatch for this Mega show is going well, Far too well. I expect to be 90% called show as we roll into the stadium for the staging set up. This time, as I'm so far ahead and doing this as electronically as possible everyone will get a call via seniority by me and I can really brush up the call list. I mean, I don't want it to become another Madonna experience. Where we were frantically trying to call the production out and people got missed or those who didn't call back right away got lost from work. Plus, with Aerosmith canceled alot of guys are thirsty for work, which bodes well when i get to calling the low people on the list.
Hopefully the U2 is as easy as this... but that's in October when their is lots more competition for casual labour as the olympics cranks up. ( I really wish we weren't having the olympics, I think it's really screwing with the cultural groups here. My show schedule is all over the map this next season, With huge dead spots in the calender. Supposedly booked by the olympics but I have as yet to see events listed or advertisements for events - I hate the idea of having to going on E.I. while foreigners who are trucked in due to the olympic rules, are working the games.. I guess we will see. That plus the bill for the event that keeps on looming bigger and bigger while the province argues the HST debate )
That, plus the shitty American economy - B.C. was the only province to cut back on spending on arts groups since the start of the world recession. Ballet B.C., which was in the worst audience numbers last year is on program life support and reorganizing but god knows how all the other arts groups are doing. The worst hit are The Electric Company - Due to a horrifying personal loss to the family that runs the group. Which might put on hold they're 2010 show. As I don't know the group or work with them at any of the venues I work at, I don't want to write much more. I just want them to know that my heart goes out to their family.
Although I had to pull out being called for the PNE and sort of unemployed right now, I'm glad to be out from under "Les Miserables". 210 shows of that is just about enough for the next few years. I wonder if the company will get the rights again ( they hope to as it was a full summer sell out, which is tough to do in Vancouver when everyone is beach bound - let alone when the Winter olympics looms as a ticket competition ) But, I'm betting it's a very slight possibility that they will. But, if so I'll certainly work it again. I doubt it will be as long a run, but the cast was great and the crew really bonded well.
I just hope I can continue to save for my own place... I do however keep looking at classic Porsche 912's that are for sale in the US and Canada So, I keep telling myself that without a real home with a parking space it's not good to own such delicate pieces of motoring history. Still, 11 grand for a rebuilt 67 912......Wimper....