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greg (fester)

About Me

well hello there people this is a bit about me. i'm from liverpool but curently live in eccles, i've been married to jeanette for 13 happy years and we have three girls betty (the dog) and frank and spencer (the cats). i'm a liverpool supporter ***** and i'm mad on golf. i have been in the music business for over 20 years working mainly as a sound engineer and a guitar technician for many bands and shows ranging from the charlatans to the bay city rollers, carcass to lord of the dance and many many more in between. after all this time the toils of touring have finally got to me and i now juggle a normal job with working for elevation the u2 experience. checkout there myspace site there even better than the real thing pardon the pun. working for elevation reminds me of why i started in the business in the first place its all about enjoying yourself and having a laugh.

My Blog

liquid cake update

Well for those of you that are familiar with liquid cake, we have now received some of footage from the gig. Vocals a bit rough at times due to bongo having a throat infection and only getting out of ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:48:00 GMT

another sad loss

10/08/2007Another sad day for the music industry.Tony Wilson or should I say Anthony Wilson died today aged 57.Now I wasn't his biggest fan due to his dislike for Liverpool and all thing scouse but ev...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:02:00 GMT

is it because we’re scousers

So with only a few days to go its started, well actually it started weeks ago but I cant believe were now getting bashed by one of our own.What am I on about, well football, well Liverpool actually, t...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:14:00 GMT

Liverpool council (what a let down)

Well I suppose most people have heard about Liverpool's world famous Mathew street festival 2007 being cancelled with only weeks to go, now it doesn't really matter what the reason was (reportedly hea...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:52:00 GMT

me cynical noooo!

I read an article in the paper this week; it was about the government telling us that we should buy British made goods only. My god! what a statement. Not that I'm complaining I'm a firm believer of ...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:53:00 GMT

Accrington Stanley 'thumbs up'

Right then people, I haven't blogged an elevation gig for a while, not since the incident at the hogle! So let me tell thee about Accrington (Stanley, who are they? Exactly!) last night. Well for a ch...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:58:00 GMT

The Beat goes on

I went so see The Beat last night at the liverpool academy 2, after fighting my way through multitudes of young wombat fans, they were playing the academy 1, I made my way to the main doors of the ven...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:27:00 GMT

an hour turns into a political rant

How long is an hour? Well I'm not gonna bore you with the minutes and seconds garb but to most of us it's a nice amount of time, enough to relax, have a snooze, get a lot of work done, have a nice wal...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:09:00 GMT

" liquid cake what a mistake "

The Elevation gig in Luxembourg is finally upon us, but does it really have to start at 4 in the morning. Unusually for us I wasn't the first at the airport, that honour went to Alan and Tony, closely...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:14:00 GMT

platinum lounge

The platinum lounge, it sounds like seedy lap dancing club don't you think, well its not it's a fairly new venue in Elsmere port which has been transformed from a previous rough house into a nice peac...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:20:00 GMT