Tour Manager Describes Experience at Blue Ridge Rock Festival

Ever since Blue Ridge Rock Festival was canceled this previous weekend, it has been one of the vital buzz-worthy subjects in rock and steel. There have been a number of tales shared on social media concerning the occasion, and now, a tour supervisor working for the band Electric Callboy has posted a video on his YouTube channel describing his expertise.

The competition, which had an enormous lineup of a number of the largest names in rock and steel, was held in Alton, Virginia. The first day of the occasion was Thursday, Sept. 7, however a sudden evacuation was referred to as for later within the day resulting from a extreme storm that entered the realm. While the following day went on with none climate cancelations, the organizers made the choice to name off the ultimate two days (Sept. 10 and 11) on Saturday because of the climate forecast. They issued a press release noting that refund particulars can be made accessible quickly.

Electric Callboy have been one of many performers on Friday, Sept. 8, in order that they have been capable of perform their set as deliberate. However, it apparently wasn’t with out its setbacks. Ian Roberts, who’s the present tour supervisor for Electric Callboy however goes by Tank the Tech on YouTube, uploaded a 37-minute video on his channel yesterday concerning the occasion. He prefaced the video by stating that his opinions don’t mirror that of Electric Callboy or some other band or particular person who was at the competition.

Firstly, Roberts recalled that he struggled to discover a direct particular person to speak with concerning the band’s transportation to the venue dressing rooms from the place they have been parked. Once they arrived to their dressing room, the air-con wasn’t working, and Tank was informed that somebody was engaged on the state of affairs — which is a solution he was given to a number of different points they confronted throughout their time there.

“Catering for lunch was pretty much non-existent at all. I was told that because of the storm the night before that catering was all unorganized, and they didn’t really know what was going on. There was barely any water backstage, there was no hospitality in the dressing rooms. And I know that sounds like a diva thing, but these are the things that are advanced,” Roberts defined.

Electric Callboy was contracted a signing session by the competition, which was initially scheduled to happen that day at 5:30PM. Roberts had requested to push the signing to an earlier time so it would not be so near the band’s set time, which the organizers granted. However, once they have been escorted to the signing space, they realized that the competition by no means alerted followers that the time of their signing had modified. So the folks lined up for Electric Callboy’s signing have been really anticipating autographs from a distinct band.

Roberts famous that after a few different mishaps, “What I started realizing in that moment was that every single fucking thing that I advanced with that festival never got relayed to anybody. So I realized that the staff at the festival was basically flying blind. The stage manger had no advances on anything. The stage hands that were there, which was not many of them… nobody knew what was going on.”

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He added that he felt dangerous for all the followers who have been in attendance. He mentioned there have been giant piles of trash all around the grounds, he heard that the porta potties have been overflowing and that there wasn’t sufficient water for everybody.

Despite every thing, although, Roberts mentioned that Electric Callboy’s efficiency was nice and that the viewers responded very well. Fortunately, the air-con of their dressing room was working after their set, and there was catering for dinner.

“People need to be held accountable in this business. I am so fucking tired of things happening where nobody has any accountability… The fans were treated horribly. The crews were treated horribly. The staff, the bands — nobody should have to experience this, ever. If nothing else from this video, I just want people to be aware,” he concluded.

See Roberts’ full video under to listen to his full expertise.

Blue Ridge Rock Festival shared one other publish on-line yesterday, writing that “There is an overabundance of misinformation circulating” that they finally plan to deal with.

“This past weekend’s weather cancelation was a collective one, made by the event’s emergency management team composed of state and county officials, as well as representatives from the venue,” they continued.

Read the entire assertion beneath the video.

Tour Manager Describes Experience at Blue Ridge Rock Festival