aha, good times indeed!
It seems as if the promoter made the support bands sell a certain number of tickets which they apparently did. However due to the promoter being unable to communicate with the bands they didn't bring all the gear they needed because they were told some other band would share their stuff. In the end they lacked irrelevant things like cymbal stands or a working bass head... The drummer kept asking me to put the trigger on his kick drum because he was told there'd be one at the venue. Wtf, who seriously expects a trigger at a venue? Also riders would have helped.
Well, as it was change over took forever and their set was cut short to make up for the lost time. They had some 12 minutes to play and tried to cause a riot and kill the promoter afterwards. We had to bring in three additional security guys.
They came flying at us as well because ultimately it was us that muted them and kicked them off stage. Things were pretty heated up. I was this close to hitting someone, just waiting for anybody to make a move on me. It was all good in the end though and even if they acted unprofessionally I can kind of see where they were coming from. After all it was clearly the promoters fault who obviously doesn't have his shit together at all.
Ah well, a bunch of cool people met and had a good time. That's all the matters afaic.
Hope today's pizza, pasta and coffee aren't as bad as you're expecting and we'll go to the Schwarzenegger museum next time around.
