What goes up must come down. It goes up slowly, but comes down very quickly. A typical day progresses like this;
Production and Tour management personnel go in around 530-5:45am. The floor of the arena gets marked for the riggers around 6am, while the riggers load in at 7am. Breakfast is served from 7am to 11am. Each department (Audio, Carpentry, Video, Lighting) starts arriving in 30 minute increments to the venue by their assigned bus or by runner van. We start unloading the gear from the semi trucks at 9am.
Lunch is served from 12pm to 3:30pm. At 2pm the opening act will load in their gear off stage.The main act will do a sound check around 4:30ish. Somewhere between 5pm-6pm the opening acts' gear will be put on stage. Dinner is served from 5pm-8:30pm.
Doors (when patrons can enter the arena) are at 6:30pm. The opening act plays from 7:30pm - 8:15pm. There is a short 30 minute change over and the main act begins at 8:45pm and plays nonstop for 2 hours.
And what took us about 5-6 hours to put up, comes down in 2-3 hours. That includes loading it back on the trucks and sending them on their merry way.
A quick shower at the venue and we're all on our buses and in our bunks by around 2:30am at the latest and on the road to the next venue.
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