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Stag Slax

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About Me


I messed up my Fickr account, oops !!!!
I'm very average. Born in Germany, but know little about my birth country, let alone speak the language. I was well educated, but have little or no time for education. I love working with bands, but hate the music industry. I tour manage and do sound all in a distinctly average manner. I've toured most of the toilets in and around Europe, but I'm yet to tour elsewhere. Whilst on a 'break' from touring, I help promote in Cardiff's finest venue, Clwb Ifor Bach.I'm not fond of interaction, but once I start actually quite enjoy it. Prefer to garden than work, but can't live without work for too long. I've been in bands and had records out, made it into bargin bins and the world of expensive imports. I'm not good at biting my lip, networking and selling myself. My attention span is less than a minute. My mind retains little information unless used on a regular basis. I believe that I have several personalities and flick between them all unknowingly. I'm still mentally immature, but have settled into middle age before my time.
I toured with Mclusky, Jarcrew, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Zabrinski and more recently The New 1920 and Future Of The Left, sometimes as Tour manager, but generally just doing the sound. I've toured with other bands, but these were strictly work, so long gone from the memory.l used to be a studio engineer, but technology has left me behind, so haven't done much in a studio for a while.

My Interests

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Music:



Books:

Jon Ronson's : Them and Men Staring At Goats

Valley Of The Dolls

Michael Azerrad : Our Band Could Be Your Life

Albert Camus : The Outsider

Lovely Bones

Son Of Sam

Stuart Maconie's : Cider With Roadies

Todd Gold with Brain Wilson : Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story

Kurt Vonnegut : Slaughterhouse 5

My Blog

CAMPER FILMS - ONE DAY OURS MAY DO THIS.

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Posted by Stag Slax on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:20:00 PST

West End Boys

This is for Electric Mistress, and the diss of my previous blog.Props, one for Chris and one for Neil.Wardrobe pt 1Steam Iron fun.Pet Shop Boys Stage Set Up and below ...Exciting hey Little ? ...
Posted by Stag Slax on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:45:00 PST

The Boy From School

So I got a call to cover the normal sound guy for Hot Chip, flew out to Dublin and spent a day at the Garden Party festival in the beautiful countryside of Ireland.Also Lady A was tour manager, so it ...
Posted by Stag Slax on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:21:00 PST

I Love Freakin' Fireworks

So finally after all these years, I get a home town gig - well that's what I thought.Welsh National Firework Competition at Chepstow Racecourse with supporting bands, better than puppets I guess. So a...
Posted by Stag Slax on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:33:00 PST

Richard Had A Party ....

So the day finally arrived, I'd spent 18 months trying to track down this man and his band of wandering minsterls.Mr Bobby Conn's Home Page I can say quite easily that is was my musical highlight of t...
Posted by Stag Slax on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:24:00 PST

A Gig Too Far ..... or how not to organise anything

The band had done all their gigs, so were flying back 4 am and came out for a last drink.So the last night of the festival, it was fairly hard to get into many of the venues, so we spent a large porti...
Posted by Stag Slax on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:05:00 PST

Tumbleweed and Stranded at TV Studios !

I'd written about this before, but the computer crashed and all was lost, so here goes.As far as we knew, we had one confirmed gig in the afternoon, followed by the chance of gig in the evening, this ...
Posted by Stag Slax on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:49:00 PST

Two Shows, Strawberry Margaritas, 6 Music, Clwb Techies and These Arms Are Snakes

We had two shows today, one for CMJ, an afternoon thang, free whisky and all, then back to Emo's for The Onion America's finest news source. The first was a little quiet and yet another vocal PA, but ...
Posted by Stag Slax on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:31:00 PST

The Road To L.A. - Tell 'em Large Marge Sent ya !!

This is scanned from a postcard, but I spotted this when we were leaving Palm Springs and heading off to L.A. Straight away I felt the urge to swerve across the road, to hit the exit and stop to visit...
Posted by Stag Slax on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:20:00 PST

Night Train

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Posted by Stag Slax on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:48:00 PST