Hollis Nolan

The tour has a service where you drop off your laundry in the morning, they have it done for you, and you get it back the same night. They charge by weight. I just got mine back today and found that I got more back than I dropped off. Looks like someone will be missing quite a bit of socks.
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Just woke up. Haven’t even left the bus and its raining. Today will be fun.
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Heres what I do on a typical day.

First thing to do is find my stage.

Usually this is somewhat challenging since there are a lot of band and vendor tents. Heres the vans skate ramp going up. More often than not its my neighbor.

Finally a stage. 8:30am.

Kyle at FOH looks very happy in the morning

This magical invention saves humans from pushing the most henious invention, known as barricade carts, on and off trucks.

It also delivers generators
An interesting side note to about three of you out there reading this. All the generators have three phase tie ins, but my power is single phase four wire. The connectors are the same and the phase isnt important, but theres an extra hot wire at the generator every time I tie in. Have to be very carefull that no one plugs it in and energizes the extra blue cam laying on my stage. yeek!

Some very happy crew got the truck completely unloaded. Throughout the day its used as a hangout and preparation spot by the stage manager Simon and backline tech Randy

A genius idea so that a truck can be unloaded to two places at once.

A genius idea to avoid pushing cases with small rollling wheels over small rocks that like to get caught in small rolling wheels.

Heres my world set up with some well placed stairs (the black cases) and cooler full of water.

My console leveling system.

on the left is the splitter. The colored cords are all the snake inputs, usually theyre pluged 1-1 2-2 etc into the MON FOH split, but occasionally things get moved around. On the right are my wedges and sidefill amp racks.

The fully set up view from FOH

The fully set up stage.

My rat trap sidefills. Have yet to see how loud these guys can get.

The power distro, mains amp rack, and my sidefills amp rack.

One day in AZ it was 106 and my racks started overheating. The funny thing is everything except the sidefills (which have crest amps) went down.





My neighbor the skate ramp

One thing about the warped tour is the bands haul their own gear. Everyday.

Decided to take a walk around and see the other stages. Some have very cool internal PA’s and get set up really fast in the morning.

The only other stage with an analog FOH console.

The line assembles

Doors arent open yet but theres still quite a bit of people about

Sara Hiding by her stage

Sara with a slightly more complex set up than me.

Blue cables are power.


Six subs a side

Chris and Sara

My unshaven self

Tom looking surprised

Production in their very official looking office



And now for some bands


The first is Therefore I Am

Looks like theyre missing Alex the lead singer, lets see if we can find him.



and no I didnt point the camera in the wrong direction. You can find the lead singer on the right next to the barricade. Look for the readheaded guy with the mic.

Next up is Shad, with DJ Teelo.

Interparty System set up and waiting on deck.





Some backup vocals by Andy from FOH













My new Yamaha M7CL



Dr Madd Vibe the MC

Watch out for the AKA’s, they’re everywhere.















The Architects









Atack Atack (with triple the normal security)






My very good view of the stage. Usually I have to lean way to the side.

TV / TV









Brokenside



Time to pack up and get out






With my truck packed and my day done I went to see other stages. Heres Jarad on his 5D

Babyfood on his Heritage

And that was it for the day. Most days for me end around 9:30. Time to hit the bus and find a shower.

The day started off nice.

Giant golf ball

From Warped Tour

close up

From Warped Tour

setting up the architects

From Warped Tour

From Warped Tour

From Warped Tour

some people showed up

From Warped Tour

then some rain showed up

From Warped Tour

very high anti rain technology

From Warped Tour

double loading ramp to truck and ground

From Warped Tour

everyone runs for cover

From Warped Tour

From Warped Tour

other stages were totaly prepared.
chris and sara at the hurley stage.

From Warped Tour

side shot of the smartpunk stage

From Warped Tour

a more contemplative pose

From Warped Tour

I had a some time to take photos because one of my bands got sick and didnt preform. After taking these shots I swung back by the bus to drop off my camera and then went back to my stage, where the rain let up a bit. After a few min though it started pouring. Right at the beginning of Atack Atack’s set. The band and crowd didnt seem to mind and both went nuts. There was seriously steam coming up from the mosh pits. a very wet load out then followed and everything got packed up for the next day.

and away from the internet for two days (not that Im on it that much allready)

all the photos are up at http://picasaweb.google.com/hollisnolan/WarpedTour#

I’ll post them here with comments on monday :)