I've written to the festival big boys

I've written to the big players of the festival world - audio rental companies where possible and promoters where not- in order to try and procure some work/work experience over the next few months. I am serious about doing live sound as my actual main source of income, my job, my livelihood. It inspires and motives me, I enjoy it. It is also much less embarrassing to tell people I work in live sound as opposed to what I do now (which is food retail work in case you were wondering).

So in the next few days I'm waiting to see if I get positive, helpful replies or indeed any replies at all. Here are the players involved: Chris Beale Audio Ltd (Glastonbury/Reading & Leeds/Latitude), Metal Camp, Tuska open air, Wacken open air, Jersey music festival, Graspop and Download. Others I didn't try but could consider for later are: Moor music festival, Rock Am ring, Roskilde, etc I know there's many more!

I certainly meant to update more often than this. Things have been slow recently I guess, with more cancelled gigs and none of the promised new equipment appearing. So really recently the only news of note is that I've got a contact at Leeds Rio's who may be able to get me some work, potentially being in charge of a few different sound guys for the two venues (upstairs and downstairs at Rio's) whilst he is away on a tour. I've also had a word with another member of Subculture's staff about working there. Just keeping asking people, showing I'm keen - keeping myself looking for opportunities.

The other recent activity is some research. I've been looking into the people, gear, techniques and organisation of major music festivals. Complicated but interesting! To this end I have a couple of great resources here and here.

Enjoy!