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Rain Can't Stop The Pet Conspiracy @ Hangzhou West Lake Music Festival
 

offline nicholasg980 on 2010-11-17 11:56 [#02398608]
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By Pet Conspiracy

Oct 23, 2010, early morning: We (Drummer Edo and Singer
Mary) had missed our a.m. flight from Beijing to Hangzhou.
Although we were all supposed to be taking the same flight
to the Hangzhou music festival to work on the sound check,
only Joe and Fiona made it to the airport and stood waiting
for the other two guys with their hot coffee. Our producer
and guitar-player Huzi was already in Hangzhou, fancifully
dreaming in the beautiful city, when he received a call from
Mary that quickly changed his mood from that of peace and
tranquility to rage! He wanted to kill them – missing the
flight was a serious matter. So serious in fact, that later,
Huzi decided to let them take the soonest flight available,
which happened to be first class.

When Edo and Mary arrived at the venue, it was raining cats
and dogs and we saw many colorful umbrellas and raincoats as
we were walking down to the electronic stage. Beautiful rain
yes, but at the same time, it occurred to us that if
rainwater was dripping from the rooftop onto the stage, the
stage itself would be drenched and anyone on the stage would
be in danger of electrocution! As the booker of this music
festival, Huzi was responsible for dealing with the issues
regarding safety – which he did without too much of a
problem. Never, in all their performances throughout China
and Europe, had The Pet Conspiracy encountered such an
enormous amount of rain as they did on that day.

Although we'd already taken the stage at 7:00 pm and had
already started to play, a guy named Zhang Zhen, who had
only 5 minutes ago set up all our instruments on the
electronic stage, suddenly changed his mind and invited us
to go and play on the main stage instead. Obligingly, we
took our equipment and ran over to where we found nearly
10,000 people waiting! And, the rain was actually beginning
to stop. We figured the sound system was bound to be
incredibly great, so without any sound check, we began to
play.

Find out more at http://china.musicdish.com


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2010-11-17 12:18 [#02398610]
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