
Terri-Sian Fairs
A DAY IN THE LIFE: CMA SONGWRITERS SERIES 07/03/2019 VENUE: INDIGO2 @ O2 ARENA, LONDON

04:45 ALARM First things first... a coffee
05:30 Shower
Get ready and double check everything is packed for the weekend
07:25 Book taxi
07:40 Arrive at station, grab lunch and settle on the train
07:59 Train leaves Brighton
09:10 Arrive at London Bridge, jump in an Uber
10:00 LOAD IN 10:10 Sort rider (water and snacks in dressing rooms, rest presented well in green room area)
10:15 Set up my desk for the day
10:30 CMA Staff arrive
10:35 Coffee!
10:30 Tidy up dressing rooms, remove rubbish and put up signage
10:40 Set up coffee/ tea area and fill Urn
10:45 Catch up with CMA and ask about plans around VIP drinks and Meet and Greet
11:00 Speak to Duty Manager about a few quieries
Hand over pass sheets to security Make sure certain people are on the list to have parking behind venue Who am I giving guest list to – Front box office I need hand towels for dressing rooms Toliet paper needs replenishing in main Green Room toilet Guitar tech arriving at 15:00, given name to front door
Sort meet and greet plan out with venue
11:30 Go through venue's meet and greet plan with CMA snd make sure everyone is happy Ask if they have issues/ questions
12:15 Speak to Duty Manager about a few more quieries WiFi still needs sorting – waiting for IT to come and sort it out Toliet needs looking at in the red dressing room
12:25 Ask Ginger Owl about remaining rider and cups for drinks
12:30 Sit down and catch up on to do list and emails
12:40 Eat lunch
12:45 Sort toilet with maintence
12:50 Lighting on stage being set
13:00 Speak to CMA about interview quiery from Artist
13:20 Go over last little bits with CMA VIP drinks, which entrance will they use Security for meet and greet
More water needed for catering rider
Ed Sheeran may be coming to watch the show, need to make sure there's enough security in place and that his car can park back stage last minute
13:30 Talk Duty Manager about these
14:00 Deal with artist phone call, sort out their query about accreditation
14:15 Talk to bar manager about VIP Drinks and sorting out buckets of ice for back stage
14:00 PA starts being rung out by techs
14:25 Look at emails
14:40 Set up water and towels in each dressing room
15:00 Ask about when my internet problem will be resolved 15:05 Guitar tech arrives
15:30 Coffee stop (very important!)
15:40 Finally have internet!
16:00 Chase John Henry's for hired stools and guitar stands
16:05 Get bigger ice buckets for the green room and fill with beer 16:30 Sort Will Call/ box office with guest list and passes 16:45 Delivery of back line/ stools
16:45 Make sure catering rider is ready for artists (display sandwiches and unpack beer etc)
17:00 SOUND CHECKS START
17:00 Locate guitar stands
17:05 finish that coffee from an hour ago!
17:30 Make sure stage is set up with waters Grab holding image from CMA
Brief Security on VIP bar
Make sure venue is ready to open VIP bar
Make sure CMA are ready for us to open VIP bar
17:30 VIP GUESTS HAPPY HOUR
18:15 Brief Security
18:20 Make sure venue is ready to open
18:25 Make sure CMA are ready for us to open
18:30 DOORS 18:35 Run over to box office with missing tickets 18:55 Check emails and catch up on messages 19:00 Ask CMA if they need anything/ are they happy? 19:05 Bottle opener needed for backstage
19:30 Make sure everyone has everything that they need before going on stage
19:45 SHOW TIME
20:10 Catch up on emails
22:20 SHOW FINISHES
22:30 Artists off stage 22:45 MEET AND GREET (Half hour)
23:30 LOAD OUT
23:35 Leave O2 Arena
23:45 Arrive at accommodation
00:00 Shower Sort bags out for tomorrow (First day at C2C)
00:45 Lights out