Funk-a-duck on Blue Peter

Radio One dj's really were in a class by themselves weren't they?

Not naming any names (im sure you can all work out who it was) but the most famous,oldest, worst-syruped and well known of all of them was booked to appear at Epping forest country club.

 We hired in a 2 stacks of ASS concert system specially, to provide more ooomph than the house system...all was set, warm-up DJ had the crowd going, then at 10pm,his Lordship arrives, and says, No no no,this wont do at all, "i need a seperate stage"....well the DJ booth was on a decent stage, a good two feet above everyone else..."no no no,not acceptable, it says in my contract i need a stage"....  so ten minutes later we had to stop all the music, turn on the house lights, clear the dancefloor, and manually carry in a 6-section podium for his majesty to 'perform' on,and then start all over again.  What a plonker. 

If I left out all of the dodgy stuff then that would be about 95% of my content gone
I tend to trickle the odd little snippet on here when a subject or thread comes up that I can link into but my biggest problem is that I worked with a lot of the industries top well known acts in the seventies and eighties both from the UK and over the pond so the book would definitely trigger problems with a lot of very well known artists(I use this term very loosely) a lot of who are still household names and still performing to this day.

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DMorison wrote: Sounds like it's your name that would need disguising then   ;-)

I was quite lucky due to tending to keep a low profile when around the acts, in fact just the opposite to most of the FOH sound guys who could blow up like a bottle of pop at the drop of a hat---Everyone back in those days was still learning their craft as we were treading on virgin paths most of the time and being based in the Midlands certainly helped me as a lot of London companies and crews were earning themselves bad reputations due to diva antics---it was OK for a superstar to throw a TV out of a fifth floor hotel window but not for road crews.
Because of my laid back approach I did tend to get on really well with other company owners in the industry and used to look forward to little get togethers with like minded people---Chris Sherwin and Peter Ross from CP Cases/Mega were always a good source of fun and entertainment on a night out and many tales of farcical Flight Case dilemmas were told on a regular basis