Another day, another town ticked off. There seem a lot more to tick off. It was another early start; Though 6 am is much better than 2 am.
If you’re reading this and are American I have to tell you that I shall be mentioning the town of Buckingham. Though don’t go there as Buckingham Palace is in London. Though it was named after Lord Buckingham.
Anyway, back to the gig. We arrived at what has to be one of the most beautiful Churches that I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, when we first arrived there was no time to take it in. We had 40 minutes to get all the equipment in and the set the majority of it up before Jim started his training seminars. A word comes to mind: Bugger.
Still with no superhuman powers, but having had Brentwood as a warm up everything was inside in 15 minutes flat. And I was soon working out cable runs. I could sound big headed but I won’t otherwise Rosie will be popping my ego down to size! I did get everything ready for a rig test, but that would have to wait. When I finally got to the test everything ran smoothly. As did the other seminar. So, we’ll skip a few hours past lunch (which I definitely won’t mention) to sound check.
As I mentioned in the Brentwood post Jim uses IEM. This makes it ever so easy unless you come across a frequency problem or a radio dead spot. So, exactly like happened here in Buckingham. A lot of head scratching later and we finally decided that we’d move the piano to see if that improved things. Amazingly it did slightly improve the situation. Well, enough to keep using them.
With sound check completed it was time for the show. Jim’s new start is both surreal and hilarious, it constantly reminds me of Austin Powers. Oh, Behave!
Much of the show hasn’t changed since late 2006, and we’re about 6 to 8 months behind in the development of the show. But none of this matters. Jim is still Jim. His style is so unique and the way he delivers the gospel message is so subtle yet powerful. You can’t fail to be impressed.
It was a better show than Brentwood, but that’s not surprising before Brentwood we’d not been on the road since the beginning of September. As life makes another shift and gigs start becoming more regular things will develop and a fairly normal service will resume.
