River Festival
Monday, August 29th, 2005 by Nick Verwymeren“I need someone for the 8:00pm to 1:00am shift on Saturday. Anyone interested?”
I raised my hand only because of the fact that I knew Taikoz was preforming that night, and though I’d never heard of them I figured it was going to be a great performance.
It was an amazing show in an equally spectacular setting. Tiakoz is a Japanese drumming band from Australia. I was in disbelief of their amazing rhythm and perfect timing. The concert was held in an old quarry. The stage was set up in front of this 100 foot rock face that was brilliantly lit up.
Our job was to help Talkin’ Audio pack up the stage and lighting equipment. The performance ran until 9:00pm and it took us until 12:00am to get all the equipment packed away. It didn’t stop there though.
We had to help setup cabling for another stage at the River Festival then deconstruct/reconstruct a stage over at the racing track. I was a really random night to say the least, and our 1:00am ended up turning into 4:00am. In the end it was a lot of fun though and I also learned a bit too.
See video clips here of Tiakoz Preforming:
Sanzetsu
Hachijo
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