Chapter Ninety-Seven: Arriving at the Music Festival
At eleven o'clock at noon, Ren Xing and others arrived in Chengdu. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After getting off the intercity railway, I got on a taxi and went straight to Luyin Park, the venue of the Qingfeng Music Festival.
About 30 minutes later, the taxi stopped at the entrance of the green park, and before getting off the bus, the taxi driver was still sighing: "It's a shame that playing music makes us not be able to visit the park properly." ”
Ren Xing walked away very embarrassed and did not make a sound.
It was also his first time here, and after getting out of the car, everything was unfamiliar, standing on the side of the road and looking at the entrance of the green park across the road, he found that the entrance had been fenced off by security personnel.
In fact, outdoor music festivals are actually held ********, and if there is a large number of ticket evasion cases if they are not strictly supervised, then the organizers will inevitably lose money.
Ren Xing still carried the guitar on his back, because the festival must have a large audience, and this was a good opportunity to brush up on his experience, but he forgot to take the guitar bag when he went out, and the guitar was directly erected and hung on his right shoulder.
Wang Meng and Wu Qing also asked why they took out the guitar directly, and Ren Xing found a reason to perfunctory the past, although the guitar thing has always been a mystery in their eyes, but they have never been able to find the answer to the mystery.
A few people did not directly cross the road into the green park, but first found a hotel nearby and opened two rooms, Wu Qing and Wang Meng asked for a two-bed suite, and Ren Xing asked for a single room.
After receiving the room card, the couple went upstairs to put away their luggage, and walked out of the hotel to smoke together.
Wu Qing lowered his head, stepped on the cigarette butt under his feet, and suddenly asked, "Brother, do you think we can make a hit this time?" ”
Wu Qing and Wang Meng are generally old, and both of them are actually a few years older than Ren Xing, but his temperament is very frizzy, and he has no opinions when he encounters things, so he especially admires Ren Xing's temperament and talent.
"As long as the firepower is sufficient, there is no cannon that does not sound." Ren Xing chuckled, patted Wu Qing's shoulder to signal him to be relieved, and then set his eyes on the green park not far away.
Wu Qing laughed, "What if it's a squib." ”
Wang Meng glanced at Wu Qing with slanted eyes, and said, "That means that you have a weak kidney." ”
"I'll fuck you, don't talk nonsense, my kidneys are very good." Wu Qing looked uneasy as if he had been poked in embarrassment, and hurriedly stabbed Wang Meng.
Hearing the chat between the two behind him, Ren Xing shook his head helplessly.
After a while, Ren Xing received a call from the music festival organizer and the stage director team, asking if Ren Xing and the others had arrived, and if they arrived, they were ready to enter the stage.
Walking on stage is a local dialect, in fact, it is to let them audition. "Audition" consists of two separate parts, which are called "walking stage" and "plugging line" in local dialect.
Ren Xing replied that it was opposite the green shade park, and there was a shouting sound on the phone, arranging for someone to pick them up at the door.
Hanging up the phone, Ren Xing beckoned the two of them to go to the green shade park together, and as soon as they heard that the business was coming, the two immediately became serious, as if the quarrel just now had not happened.
On the day when the band or musician arrives at the location of the music festival or a day in advance, the stage director team will notify the band or musician to determine the time of the stage, if the director team does not go to the stage, it is not forced, but because the music festival officially starts with a performer in each rotation, there is only less than half an hour on the stage for equipment debugging, in fact, there is not enough time. Therefore, most bands will walk the stage a day in advance, that is, they will be familiar with the stage situation and audition, plus communicate with the tuner about the return and music ratio, and the tuner will record the parameters of each band.
Plugging in the line actually refers to the intermediate time from the end of the performance of the previous group of bands or artists, disassembling the equipment to the official performance of the next group of bands, which is the plugging time. In addition to the long time it takes for the drummer to install the hammer and the cymbals, the other bands that go through the stage in advance only need to plug in the connection of the equipment, so it is called plugging line, because after going through the stage in advance, the tuner will have a backup of your stage before, and only need to manually reset.
Standing at the gate of the green park and waiting, the security personnel were very scrupulous in their duties, just standing at the door and not letting people in, and they didn't say much about someone visiting at the door, but when a staff member brought these three young men in, these men in uniform were still a little surprised.
"Are these young guys the band that got invited?"
"Nonsense, you didn't see that someone from the director team came out to pick it up."
"Oh yes, it's not easy for today's children to be on such a big stage at a young age."
The songs released by the Kaleidoscope band on the Internet one after another are still not pop music, not fully accepted by the public, and the audience is mainly young people.
For example, at the beginning, the dream-chasing heart, the brightest star in the night sky, to the later reluctance to look back, my sky, the proud boy, and then to a preview song released before the music festival is as free as the wind.
Except for the last song, the previous songs are all young people who love to listen, so Ren Xing is not popular now, and it is normal for passers-by not to know him.
The director team arranged to pick them up was a young man of twenty-seven or eight, wearing a suit and tie and thick hairspray, who didn't look like he was engaged in music work, and he didn't have the temperament of a musician, and his face was full of unhappiness when he came out.
As soon as he entered the green shade park, Wu Qing went up and took it off, but who knew that this person would ignore it.
After Wu Qing reported to his home, he didn't even introduce himself, only said that it was arranged by the director team, and he didn't talk much, he didn't seem to be interested in Ren Xing, and even the cigarette that Wu Qing handed him he just glanced at with contempt, and even the pushing action in his hand was saved and inserted directly into his trouser pocket, and then continued to walk forward.
Wu Qing was about to have a seizure at that time, but he still pressed it down for Ren Xing and Wang Meng, and Wu Qing said angrily: "What a few things, shame on your face." ”
The young man walked straight forward, with a haughty attitude that did not take them seriously, and did not even care whether they followed or not. Ren Xing was also very unhappy in his heart, gritted his teeth and said: "Bear it, you have to earn your own face, besides, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, and we can't do it as a guest if we beat the master's dog." In fact, after speaking, Ren Xing was thinking in his heart, this person either has a brain disease, or he really has a grudge with them, or how can he have nostrils when he meets?
Jiang Kun has just come back from abroad, and after returning to China, the work is also arranged by the family, he is not short of money, he likes women, and the Yanmar who has been playing abroad for several years in the past few years is tired of playing, and still feels that the softness of oriental women is more sexy.
At first, I was very dissatisfied when I heard that it was arranged to enter the music circle, but I heard that the domestic folk music circle has become popular recently, and many literary and artistic young women in it are called a beauty, and I am happy again. But I didn't expect that the first errand was actually in a music festival to do chores, and the chores were just that, and the reception at the end of the day was all men, how could he be interested.
Jiang Kuncai didn't bother to care who these guys were behind him, anyway, he was just coping with errands, he wished that the director had fired him because he was dissatisfied with his work attitude, but the director didn't have the courage to do so.