I Have Finally Given Up...

[JJ]

Keeping nature under control on my small orchard has be come too much for my ageing (but still temple like) body.

I can drive the ride on mower ok and do a bit of strimming, but all the pruning and vine maintenance and log cutting and clearing is too much for me.

So I have hired a chap whose band of workers have had over a year's worth of (well paid) show biz work cancelled due to the virus. They do ground clearing work for the time being to make up for the lost work.

Nuno (the man) visited QMJ, saw the work I wanted doing, negotiated a fee and will start shortly.

Nuno (the chief) and his "boys" were (and will be again) riggers on the World Wide stadium tour of...

Rammstein...

... one of my favourite bands ever.

Rammstein's head rigger cutting my vines and fruit trees.

It's a funny old world...

JJ

 

[Brains]

..... and 100,000 other people that work in the Live Entrainment industry in the UK alone.

I have a very good fried who is a Tour Manager for a very well known band.
He has set up a mobile bicycle repair business.

The rest of the crew are also doing odd jobs,
the head lighting engineer is driving a forklift at a fruit packing warehouse.
The head sound engineer is working in a Cathedral setting up the sound system for a son et luminaire for next summer.
Several of the Roadies are working for the van delivery companies, with one working for Sainsburys.
The truck drivers are working delivering stuff around the UK
and one of the tour bus drivers is working for the local bus company.

A highly skilled (and highly paid) global touring crew reduced to odd jobs for 2-3 years.
Not good for the UK economy, especially as they will have to mostly relocate to remain within the EU once touring restarts next summer.

 

[nicholsong]

..... and 100,000 other people that work in the Live Entrainment industry in the UK alone.

I have a very good fried who is a Tour Manager for a very well known band.
He has set up a mobile bicycle repair business.

The rest of the crew are also doing odd jobs,
the head lighting engineer is driving a forklift at a fruit packing warehouse.
The head sound engineer is working in a Cathedral setting up the sound system for a son et luminaire for next summer.
Several of the Roadies are working for the van delivery companies, with one working for Sainsburys.
The truck drivers are working delivering stuff around the UK
and one of the tour bus drivers is working for the local bus company.

A highly skilled (and highly paid) global touring crew reduced to odd jobs for 2-3 years.
Not good for the UK economy, especially as they will have to mostly relocate to remain within the EU once touring restarts next summer.

Norman Tebbit would be proud of them as I am, and that It was the course I took when necessary.

'Nobody owes anybody a living'

That should be posted on every University Campus and in every Unemployment Office.

Geoff

 

[Realist]

Nobody had a clue that COVID would have such an effect on all walks of life and you have the Chinese to blame.

I’m lucky I’ve worked all the way through this pandemic as well as my wife but the music industry has been decimated by COVID but in times of need you do what ever is needed to survive and if it means digging holes, cleaning toilets or trimming bushes you do what brings in the money.

And best of luck to them all.

 

[Tea Bag]

Hi.
When we bought,it was advertised as a small farm,the chap we bought it off had it ALL under control even down to irrigation and when we came to complete he asked how old i was......... When i told him he said..." Best of Luck " Cost of tractor and flail,plus fuel and road tax/ins..... My...AGE ?... we have a man in two/three times a year. First go he flailed and ploughed it,when he came back the second time,he asked if i was ever going to grow anything,when i said no,he said just a flail it is then.
Tea Bag ( Tractorless. )

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[Jim]

one of my favourite bands ever.

I thought it was just Ukulele music you hated. But I was wrong you just don’t like music. You prefer screaming and shouting by grown men in nappies. Then try and pass it off as music. . .

 

[2657]

Keeping nature under control on my small orchard has be come too much for my ageing (but still temple like) body.

I can drive the ride on mower ok and do a bit of strimming, but all the pruning and vine maintenance and log cutting and clearing is too much for me.

So I have hired a chap whose band of workers have had over a year's worth of (well paid) show biz work cancelled due to the virus. They do ground clearing work for the time being to make up for the lost work.

Nuno (the man) visited QMJ, saw the work I wanted doing, negotiated a fee and will start shortly.

Nuno (the chief) and his "boys" were (and will be again) riggers on the World Wide stadium tour of...

Rammstein...

... one of my favourite bands ever.

Rammstein's head rigger cutting my vines and fruit trees.

It's a funny old world...

JJ

Very good luck to the guys.

I have heard of Rammstein but never heard anything before, excellent love the distorted heavy bass.

I was heavily into Krautrock in the early seventies, Amon Duul II, Can, sorry to divert the thread into music but can't resist

Best rock intro ever/





Enjoy.........or not as the case may be

 

[JJ]

I thought it was just Ukulele music you hated. But I was wrong you just don’t like music. You prefer screaming and shouting by grown men in nappies. Then try and pass it off as music. . .

LOL

There are none so blind than those who can not (or will not) open their eyes...

I am so sad that you will never be able to feel the joy and sheer power of bands such as Rammstein.

And one of their riggers will be nursing my olive trees into producing even more fruit in the future.

Jasmin Olives v QMJ Olives?

I think we know who wins that one!

JJ

 

[JJ]

you have the Chinese to blame.

What!

I don't blame the Chinese.

But then I guess I must probably read different news sources to you

JJ

 

[rolosroller]

Seen Rammstein about I2 years ago in manchester was right at the front in the mosh pit.
One of the best gigs i have been to .

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[John Barrett]

Keeping nature under control on my small orchard has be come too much for my ageing (but still temple like) body.

I can drive the ride on mower ok and do a bit of strimming, but all the pruning and vine maintenance and log cutting and clearing is too much for me.

SNIP

What you really need is one of these...

 

[Brains]

I thought it was just Ukulele music you hated. But I was wrong you just don’t like music. You prefer screaming and shouting by grown men in nappies. Then try and pass it off as music. . .

One of the best heavy metal covers ever!

 

[Realist]

What!

I don't blame the Chinese.

But then I guess I must probably read different news sources to you

JJ

I do as well as the millions that have died because of it.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

I thought it was just Ukulele music you hated. But I was wrong you just don’t like music. You prefer screaming and shouting by grown men in nappies. Then try and pass it off as music. . .

Spot on there. One of my friends is a manager for various touring “musicians” and getting back to work very shortly after spending 18months PAT testing. Great bass player in his time but his musical tastes aren’t for everyone….. or indeed many people

 

[scally]

..... and 100,000 other people that work in the Live Entrainment industry in the UK alone.

I have a very good fried who is a Tour Manager for a very well known band.
He has set up a mobile bicycle repair business.

The rest of the crew are also doing odd jobs,
the head lighting engineer is driving a forklift at a fruit packing warehouse.
The head sound engineer is working in a Cathedral setting up the sound system for a son et luminaire for next summer.
Several of the Roadies are working for the van delivery companies, with one working for Sainsburys.
The truck drivers are working delivering stuff around the UK
and one of the tour bus drivers is working for the local bus company.

A highly skilled (and highly paid) global touring crew reduced to odd jobs for 2-3 years.
Not good for the UK economy, especially as they will have to mostly relocate to remain within the EU once touring restarts next summer.

You just had to didn't you

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[mitzimad]

LOL

There are none so blind than those who can not (or will not) open their eyes...

I am so sad that you will never be able to feel the joy and sheer power of bands such as Rammstein.

And one of their riggers will be nursing my olive trees into producing even more fruit in the future.

Jasmin Olives v QMJ Olives?

I think we know who wins that one!

JJ

never mind the olives you need to compare moles

 

[Realist]

Moles forget them it’s the rats that get umm, little evil critters.

 

[Neilfg]

Keeping nature under control on my small orchard has be come too much for my ageing (but still temple like) body.

I can drive the ride on mower ok and do a bit of strimming, but all the pruning and vine maintenance and log cutting and clearing is too much for me.

So I have hired a chap whose band of workers have had over a year's worth of (well paid) show biz work cancelled due to the virus. They do ground clearing work for the time being to make up for the lost work.

Nuno (the man) visited QMJ, saw the work I wanted doing, negotiated a fee and will start shortly.

Nuno (the chief) and his "boys" were (and will be again) riggers on the World Wide stadium tour of...

Rammstein...

... one of my favourite bands ever.

Rammstein's head rigger cutting my vines and fruit trees.

It's a funny old world...

JJ

If they've worked with Rammstein, then they'll be familiar with most forms of heavy machinery which is a bonus

 

[Oldchappers]

..... and 100,000 other people that work in the Live Entrainment industry in the UK alone.

I have a very good fried who is a Tour Manager for a very well known band.
He has set up a mobile bicycle repair business.

The rest of the crew are also doing odd jobs,
the head lighting engineer is driving a forklift at a fruit packing warehouse.
The head sound engineer is working in a Cathedral setting up the sound system for a son et luminaire for next summer.
Several of the Roadies are working for the van delivery companies, with one working for Sainsburys.
The truck drivers are working delivering stuff around the UK
and one of the tour bus drivers is working for the local bus company.

A highly skilled (and highly paid) global touring crew reduced to odd jobs for 2-3 years.
Not good for the UK economy, especially as they will have to mostly relocate to remain within the EU once touring restarts next summer.

Sick man of Europe strikes. (Munchausens by proxy)
infuriating that talented musicians and the curators of art have been kept from entertaining the masses during the pandemic yet Farage gets a new job on TV to spit his bile of hate and lies and Katy Hopkins gets flown to Australia. You can’t make it up.

 

[ShiftZZ]

I thought it was just Ukulele music you hated. But I was wrong you just don’t like music. You prefer screaming and shouting by grown men in nappies. Then try and pass it off as music. . .

I have to agree with Jim, that was dire.

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[buttons]

Keeping nature under control on my small orchard has be come too much for my ageing (but still temple like) body.

I can drive the ride on mower ok and do a bit of strimming, but all the pruning and vine maintenance and log cutting and clearing is too much for me.

So I have hired a chap whose band of workers have had over a year's worth of (well paid) show biz work cancelled due to the virus. They do ground clearing work for the time being to make up for the lost work.

Nuno (the man) visited QMJ, saw the work I wanted doing, negotiated a fee and will start shortly.

Nuno (the chief) and his "boys" were (and will be again) riggers on the World Wide stadium tour of...

Rammstein...

... one of my favourite bands ever.

Rammstein's head rigger cutting my vines and fruit trees.

It's a funny old world...

JJ

JJ my friend, Does Mr Nuno and his team know just Who they will be working for at the QMJ estate, no less than JJ the international street entertainer the David Copperfield of the Iberian Peninsula the Television personality of the 1980s who rubbed shoulders with the likes of the world famous Marti Caine I think they could be in awe of JJ long before they arrive at the estate.

 

[Nanniemate]

..... and 100,000 other people that work in the Live Entrainment industry in the UK alone.

I have a very good fried who is a Tour Manager for a very well known band.
He has set up a mobile bicycle repair business.

The rest of the crew are also doing odd jobs,
the head lighting engineer is driving a forklift at a fruit packing warehouse.
The head sound engineer is working in a Cathedral setting up the sound system for a son et luminaire for next summer.
Several of the Roadies are working for the van delivery companies, with one working for Sainsburys.
The truck drivers are working delivering stuff around the UK
and one of the tour bus drivers is working for the local bus company.

A highly skilled (and highly paid) global touring crew reduced to odd jobs for 2-3 years.
Not good for the UK economy, especially as they will have to mostly relocate to remain within the EU once touring restarts next summer.

'odd jobs'

packing fruit so we can eat a job that we are desperately short on operatives many people house feed and cloth their families doing this
working in a Cathedral I am sure some peoples faith has helped to get them through the last few years he's a sound engineer self-employed just doing a different contract to what he normally does.
delivery drivers have helped to keep the economy going and delivered all the essential items we have needed and what's wrong with working for Sainsburys the people in the supermarkets went to work and kept us fed when other stayed at home
truck drivers are truck drivers they deliver stuff some may earn additional on the side when working in the entertainment industry (working the lighting etc) hanging around during the day waiting for the strip down to push it through to the next venue
as for the bus driver he drives people from A to B and is now getting essential workers to hospitals and other places - ask him what he did before he drove a 'bandbus' ask him what is harder putting up with schedules, constant traffic and the public and the band work is a piece of cake (also with a limited life span not many drivers do it for too many years)

All of these 'odd jobs' are some peoples lives, contractors working for bands are only well paid when they are working and this is to recompense for the days, weeks and months of down time when they are not touring or getting paid.

It may sound exciting and romantic to be on tour with a band, the daily rate its not well paid for those transporting people and stuff. Hence, they do additional jobs on the side(groupies). There are many honest hard working people out there who work 5 to 6 days a week doing the kind of work referred to as 'odd jobs' many who have been on the front line and when things start to return to normal will scrimp and save so that the entertainment industry can get back to doing what they enjoy doing entertaining people

 

[sedge]

Good many years ago now, even the BBC made all their Outside Broadcast crew go self employed, so as Teams they had to apply for jobs to do all the OB sound, filming and lighting for drama series like eg Dangerfield (recorded on location in the grounds of the Arrow Mill nr Redditch) or eg. Songs of Praise (all over the place, pre-arranged with locations, celebrants and participants, on weekdays not Sundays!) hence they'd all be in the same boat unless the Teams had formed Companies and employed them with a wage etc.

 

[ryan_flea]

Love it. Great music!

 

[Zoobec]

I told my family that Rammstein were working on your land. My daughter said to say they are her favourite ever band

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[Minxy]

I thought it was just Ukulele music you hated. But I was wrong you just don’t like music. You prefer screaming and shouting by grown men in nappies. Then try and pass it off as music. . .

I think calling them 'grown men' is OTT ... I don't think they've even reached puberty judging by the racket that they are trying pretend is music!

 

[The general]

was heavily into Krautrock in the early seventies, Amon Duul II, Can,

Yes , I have archangel thunderbird on a 7 inch single , other band’s of note grobschitt , ash rah temple etc

 

[JJ]

I told my family that Rammstein were working on your land. My daughter said to say they are her favourite ever band

Errr...

It's not actually Rammstein doing the work but Nuno and his mates who are riggers for them.

(He might be able to arrange tickets for your daughter though. )

JJ

 

[Zoobec]

Errr...

It's not actually Rammstein doing the work but Nuno and his mates who are riggers for them.

(He might be able to arrange tickets for your daughter though. )

JJ

I told my daughter what you said and she said that would be absolutely fantastic if he could do that

 

[JJ]

I told my daughter what you said and she said that would be absolutely fantastic if he could do that

No promises but I will talk to him about it when I can...

JJ

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