Sue wrote ... > You could try pulling the plug out!! This would do a lot of > us a favour.
I was tempted :-) It was very much a case of the boot being on the other foot given that for the last three years I've been sort of 'in charge' of the main bar PA and thus the primary target of complaints about the noise from the PA! The lack of a quiet bar, the poor arrangement of the site (again, Site just will not listen or learn), an excessively large sound system (I nearly had kittens! I though we had an OTT system at Beale Park but 6, count 'em SIX, dual 18" bass bins for an event that size? Yeah Gods!) and overly enthusiastic young turks with their fingers on the loud knob meant it was too loud too often IMO. There's no getting away from it, if you've got bands on stage with full drum kits etc. there's only so low you can go (if anyone is interested, I'll happily explain just why that's the case) but Braunston Pickle didn't need to be deafeningly lound and the 'background' music at 7:00pm on Sunday evening *certainly* didn't need to be at levels which made it difficult to place an order at the bar! Rik and I wouldn't have done it (and I very much doubt if we'd have been allowed to get away with it if we had!). My impression, rightly or wrongly, is that the young lads who were running the kit this year turned it down when told to and then promptly wound things back up as soon as 'officialdom' had turned its back. I know that on one occasion Guy went down to the main bar from theatre to get them to ease up on the loud pedal and we heard it go down and then by the time he had walked back up to theatre again it was pretty well back where it started Bru
