Tuesday was an interesting gig – for quite a few reasons.
It was our first (semi-)private party - and it was for the Tom Waddell center’s 10th anniversary celebration at the Center for Sex and Culture (CSC).
For those who don’t know, Tom Waddell is part of the SF city DPH – but was the world’s first heath clinic to run a service specifically aimed at the TG community (Transgendered Tuesdays). And it is (probably?) named after the founder of the Gay Olympics, who was also a SF doctor… Anyway, they provide health care and hormones to a huge number of people and friends in the community – so we were only too happy to help them celebrate.
As it turns out, the CSC only had mains, so we volunteered to provide the rest of the sound setup (monitors etc.). Which is why we found ourselves scrambling against time, and while the first acts were performing, to figure out how to hook our mixing board into their power amp for the mains, while still driving our power amps for the monitors. Pretty stressful, but it turned out fine in the end – once we realized that one incredibly small button (Aux in vol) needed to be non-zero!
Being a party, there was catered food – which was rather nice. But the CSC doesn’t have a booze license, so it was sparkling fruit juice all round. Which kinda surprised Tori, who enthusiastically poured what she thought was champagne! And there were thanks and speeches too – including apologies from The Mayor and a congratulatory certificate from Mark Leno.
Also on the bill (amongst others) were Veronica Klaus (who is really good – check her out at veronicaklaus.com) and our buddy Anderson Toone (all the way from New York in his new incarnation of Buck Shot and Bebe Gunn).
So, with a little shuffling of times and order, we got onto the incredibly small stage around 8:30 – and did pretty much the same set we’d done on Friday at the Edinburgh castle – and it went very well. We’re really hitting a groove. It was slightly strange peering into the crowd, and not being able to see very far as they had a really strong spotlight, and only seeing a few people seated sedately at tables at the front – whereas apparently there were a whole bunch of people dancing further back. But we got a really enthusiastic response (woops and hollers) and sold quite a few CDs afterwards. So we were happy…
And afterwards… we had been planning to head to Trannyshack, but we’d heard Charo night was crazy busy, so instead we headed to Martuni’s to wind down and catch up with Anderson and Shana – and Jamie and Jen and…
It was our first (semi-)private party - and it was for the Tom Waddell center’s 10th anniversary celebration at the Center for Sex and Culture (CSC).
For those who don’t know, Tom Waddell is part of the SF city DPH – but was the world’s first heath clinic to run a service specifically aimed at the TG community (Transgendered Tuesdays). And it is (probably?) named after the founder of the Gay Olympics, who was also a SF doctor… Anyway, they provide health care and hormones to a huge number of people and friends in the community – so we were only too happy to help them celebrate.
As it turns out, the CSC only had mains, so we volunteered to provide the rest of the sound setup (monitors etc.). Which is why we found ourselves scrambling against time, and while the first acts were performing, to figure out how to hook our mixing board into their power amp for the mains, while still driving our power amps for the monitors. Pretty stressful, but it turned out fine in the end – once we realized that one incredibly small button (Aux in vol) needed to be non-zero!
Being a party, there was catered food – which was rather nice. But the CSC doesn’t have a booze license, so it was sparkling fruit juice all round. Which kinda surprised Tori, who enthusiastically poured what she thought was champagne! And there were thanks and speeches too – including apologies from The Mayor and a congratulatory certificate from Mark Leno.
Also on the bill (amongst others) were Veronica Klaus (who is really good – check her out at veronicaklaus.com) and our buddy Anderson Toone (all the way from New York in his new incarnation of Buck Shot and Bebe Gunn).
So, with a little shuffling of times and order, we got onto the incredibly small stage around 8:30 – and did pretty much the same set we’d done on Friday at the Edinburgh castle – and it went very well. We’re really hitting a groove. It was slightly strange peering into the crowd, and not being able to see very far as they had a really strong spotlight, and only seeing a few people seated sedately at tables at the front – whereas apparently there were a whole bunch of people dancing further back. But we got a really enthusiastic response (woops and hollers) and sold quite a few CDs afterwards. So we were happy…
And afterwards… we had been planning to head to Trannyshack, but we’d heard Charo night was crazy busy, so instead we headed to Martuni’s to wind down and catch up with Anderson and Shana – and Jamie and Jen and…
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