Never sit in on a June Tabor sound check, not if you are delicate or something else to be doing for an hour and a half...... She still won't accept that there is no such thing as a perfect PA, and the arrival of over a hundred people is going to change the whole accoustic thing anyway! What my friend "Gordon" (not his real name) who used to be a sound engineer for a major TV station would do was let her have her way and then tweak all the knobs back to how he thought they should be, whilst she was preparing. She never ever twigged....!

Les Barker has the shortest sound check on record. He steps up to the mike. 'Ello. Yeah, that's ok. Bye. And off he goes!

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