Overkill

by **c-more** » 24 Jul 2007, 18:01

I went in to Overkill once to watch Luke Vibert and it was very quiet, personally I cannot hack a quiet sound system I find it extremely frustrating. Beardyman was awesome on Sunday and all sound issues seemed to be sorted by then.

by **Beatmonkey** » 24 Jul 2007, 19:06

Sperge wrote:I have some more response to the Overkill issues from the organisers:

Me: sound levels in the Overkill Tent (presumably because of all the difficulties in getting it up and running in the first place?).

Organisers: At one stage on Friday night after midnight it was a bit quiet for 2 hours due to the event noise team getting some high readings off site, but this didn't last long and they levels and the vibe in the tent was mostly excellent.

Me: Venetian Snares' walk-out, apparently because of a dispute with the monitors technician?

Organisers: Yeah, well, unfortunately we weren't too happy bout that either - neither congo natty that preceded him nor the 3 acts that followed him had a problem - its a shame he reacted the way he did - the overkill crew worked incredibly hard to put on the show and what was needed in this case was a bit of patience and understanding - what we got instead was a dj's ego and his childish behaviour - c'est la vie, as they say. Most of the feedback we got from Overkill has been fantastic

Did they not hear reports of the crowd shouting turn it up quite a lot? Did they not realise it didn't have the soundfeild system as promised in all tents running after midnight?

"A bit quiet for 2 hours" hahahahahahaha They could at least admit that sound was too low and that one of the stacks had a fucked driver in it that popped and cliked for quite a while forceing the techs to cut a lot of the bass from one stack leaveing a thin and trebly sound totaly usutible for the style of music. Now if all this was caused by the massive river flowing through the tent on friday morning I don't mind, I'm impressed they got it open at all after peering in on friday morning but if they think everything was hunky dory soundwise in that tent they are very much mistaken as from the punters view it obviously wasn't, an honest response would be nice.

And as for V Snares, what a prick, hes got a lot of anger in him, probably why he makes music like he does, he had no excuse for spoiling things for us, his fans though. I don't condone getting music from fileshareing programs however if you're considering buying a V Snares album, go get it off bittorrent, in my opinion he no longer deserves the money, go buy something from KJ Sawka instead, he absoloutbly rocked the place.

Website · by **boki** » 24 Jul 2007, 23:08

Just a thought, but if it was an off-site reading that appeared to be coming from Overkill, could Herbal Highs have contributed in some small part to it? They had a pretty loud (especially for a stall) system and they were directly facing Overkill. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to begrudge HH their system, especially as they were pumping out meaty dnb for anyone mad enough to brave the torrent on Friday before the tents started up, but maybe they weren't in the ideal place under the circumstances.

What it boils down to, though, is that OK would've been fine had it got a Funktion 1 rig.

by **gella** » 25 Jul 2007, 08:55

Eamonn wrote:Argh, the Bangface balloons! Once they hit mud they were horrific!

Although the sight of a filthy dolphin smacking someone in the face who didn't spot it in time was pretty hilarious

that happened to me at least once :wacko:

by **SinistaTek** » 25 Jul 2007, 13:04

Overkill was wicked all weekend, was disappointed about snares i have been looking forward to his set for ages, but i understand why he walked out, it WAS FAR TO QUIET! during endusers set i had to move as a couple were chatting about digital cameras right in front of me and it was louder than the music!!! and i was at the front!!!!!

Highlight had to be when Dolphin & Teknoist played Hardcore Body Harvest at the end of there set, and the noise people were making for one more tune made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! Fuckin Wicked festival. cant wait for next year!

by **sick bastardly** » 25 Jul 2007, 21:21

the scotch egg band was the best thing i saw all festival really good. fourtet also a highlight. pretty gutting about v snares. what i saw of enduser was awesome and dolphin and the tecknoist rinsed it, though i missed the last twenty minutes as i was too tired to stand let alone rave to gabba! otto von schirach was also wicked. the sound was shit most of the weekend tho.if it was flood damage then fair enough as it was better than nothing and they did do incredibly well to have the stage running at all. however, i would really like to know why every other stage, even the roots tent, had a surround sound ambisonic shizzle but the overkill got neglected in this respect. floods or not there was no surround sound noise cancelling madness at all in there which meant that from the outset we were just going to have a repeat of last years problems. pretty dissappointing realy after the glade team promised to sort this out.

by **richfurness** » 26 Jul 2007, 08:03

Dolphin & Teknoist played Hardcore Body Harvest at the end of there set,

shit, i missed that! i was fucked outside on the red pillow thing,
probably a good thing i missed it actually, i probably would have actually went insane

by **aaronbundock** » 26 Jul 2007, 14:03

yeah those inflatables were mental... my missus got smacked in the head by one of the dolphins and her hair was covered in mud! was pretty comical...

who was the dude crowd surfing in the dinghy on the friday? how the hell you got that in the air i don't know!

regarding sound levels....
i still had an awesome time, but the overkill tent needs to stop being neglected by the organisers before people stop coming for that kind of music... which would be a damn shame as it would restrict the diversity of the festival which for me is what makes it.

i'm not moaning, just REALLY want overkill to be spot on next year as it would be outta this world.

by **richfurness** » 26 Jul 2007, 14:34

has anyone got any pics of the fella crowd surfin in the dinghy??
i was in there but cant remember seeing it, my mates said it was moment of the festival

by **Paul Z** » 26 Jul 2007, 14:43

aaronbundock wrote:who was the dude crowd surfing in the dinghy on the friday? how the hell you got that in the air i don't know!

That'll be my mate Rhod, often seen at Bangface wearing the scream mask. I turned to my mates and was cracking up at the loon in the dinghy before seeing the mask and realising who it was. Was kind of hoping he'd fall flat on his face in the mud, that would have been piss funny. Sorry Rhod...

by **dannybee** » 26 Jul 2007, 14:46

My post got deleted but I am not sure why.

I would love an answer to the following false statement on the glade festival website:

Funktion 1 is also, we feel, amongst the very highest quality rigs and it's also being used in Sancho Panza and in the Overkill tent. Having the highest quality gear, run by the best engineers, will mean highly accurate sound without as much noise spillage...

There was NOT a funktion one sound system at the overkill stage at Glade this year. Why? It is clear that the lack of it forced the sound to be reduced and overkill people love their noize. If it is because of the flooding then fine but I would love to here that from the organisers. I had an AMAZING time but it would have been faultless with higher volume in the evening at the Overkill stage

by **thehardcorechief** » 26 Jul 2007, 15:45

yeah the scream faced crowd surfer is astraboy i think on other forums...i have mentioned already over there even though he was spashin mud and ravin in our faces that was a classic bit of trickery ..hahaha

by **wagawaga** » 26 Jul 2007, 19:02

THE UNDERKILL TENT

by **admin** » 26 Jul 2007, 19:13

dannybee wrote:My post got deleted but I am not sure why.

I would love an answer to the following false statement on the glade festival website:

Funktion 1 is also, we feel, amongst the very highest quality rigs and it's also being used in Sancho Panza and in the Overkill tent. Having the highest quality gear, run by the best engineers, will mean highly accurate sound without as much noise spillage...

There was NOT a funktion one sound system at the overkill stage at Glade this year. Why? It is clear that the lack of it forced the sound to be reduced and overkill people love their noize. If it is because of the flooding then fine but I would love to here that from the organisers. I had an AMAZING time but it would have been faultless with higher volume in the evening at the Overkill stage

Apologies dannybee, I think it was in the thread I creamed off from the main "response to the organisers" thread and then promptly managed to delete by mistake. It might well have looked like it was deleted "accidentally on purpose" but it was a genuine, 24-carat f*ck-up. :blush:

I did promise to raise this one with the organisers and haven't done it yet. Will get on the case now and let you know if I get a response on it.

by **Sperge** » 26 Jul 2007, 22:03

As promised, I asked the following question:

A question that keeps coming up is the lack of Funktion 1 rigs at the
Overkill tent despite it being stated on the official Glade website that
both Overkill and Sancho Panza would have them.

As I understand it, an Opus rig was used in Overkill, which I'm told is
fine in terms of sound quality but obviously doesn't have the
noise-cancelling properties of the F1 Ambisonics.

It seems a number of people are complaining that levels were
often quiet in the Overkill and they think the lack of F1 may be behind
this.

Is it a case of the floods meaning that F1 rigs could not be used or was
there some other technical reason why conventional rigs had to be
used instead?

The reply I have just received is:

Good question.

The story is that the tent we had planned for Overkill was on the back of
an artic lorry that jackknifed coming out of another wet gig - no one was
hurt, but the lorry and the tent were a write off.

The replacement tent was smaller and as a result there was not room in
the tent for the 4 additional stacks required for the soundfield.

Next year the tent will be bigger and will have a soundfield same as the
breaks tent.

by **free spirit** » 26 Jul 2007, 22:40

as one of the people who spent a large proportion of my time at the festival knee deep in rivers building dams, digging ditches etc in the effort to firstly divert the river away from overkill and back where it belonged to get the overkill tent open, and then keep it open despite the entire area from the front of stage barrier backwards being under getting on for a foot of water, I'm really happy for those that partied in there and loved it.

for those complaining about the noise levels etc. please be aware that the tent was virtually permanently on the verge of being closed the entire weekend, so you're lucky there was any sound in there at all. You'd not believe the effort that went into getting the tent open and keeping it open.

OK so the sound could and should have been better, but at least it was on, and it's amazing to me that the speakers were even working after spending most of a day submerged in a river, and full credit to the sound crew for sticking it out and making it work despite the obvious risk of our temporary dams being breached by any further serious rainfall and their amps ending up 2 foot deep in a river.

I'm not sure why the sound was so low in there as it's not my department, but I seriously doubt that venetian snares will ever be invited back to play at glade, or any other festival that any of the glade crew are involved in after his little attempt to start a riot - we were seriously unimpressed with that particular stunt.

(this is a personal opinion, not an official festival opinion)

by **Eamonn** » 26 Jul 2007, 22:49

Sperge wrote:As promised, I asked the following question:

A question that keeps coming up is the lack of Funktion 1 rigs at the
Overkill tent despite it being stated on the official Glade website that
both Overkill and Sancho Panza would have them.

As I understand it, an Opus rig was used in Overkill, which I'm told is
fine in terms of sound quality but obviously doesn't have the
noise-cancelling properties of the F1 Ambisonics.

It seems a number of people are complaining that levels were
often quiet in the Overkill and they think the lack of F1 may be behind
this.

Is it a case of the floods meaning that F1 rigs could not be used or was
there some other technical reason why conventional rigs had to be
used instead?

The reply I have just received is:

Good question.

The story is that the tent we had planned for Overkill was on the back of
an artic lorry that jackknifed coming out of another wet gig - no one was
hurt, but the lorry and the tent were a write off.

The replacement tent was smaller and as a result there was not room in
the tent for the 4 additional stacks required for the soundfield.

Next year the tent will be bigger and will have a soundfield same as the
breaks tent.

All I can say to that is...

BRING ON OVERKILL @ GLADE 2008!!!! WOooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :wackyhat:

by **jsyp** » 27 Jul 2007, 08:49

hmmm , late on thursday night whilst speaking to ned outside the overkill tent , he told me the tent was actually slightly bigger this year after i was saying it looked smaller . why would ned have said that and not told us about what happened to the original tent ? Surely he must have known .

by **Sperge** » 27 Jul 2007, 10:00

jsyp wrote:hmmm , late on thursday night whilst speaking to ned outside the overkill tent , he told me the tent was actually slightly bigger this year after i was saying it looked smaller . why would ned have said that and not told us about what happened to the original tent ? Surely he must have known .

It may still have been slightly bigger than the previous year's but not as big as the one planned? :unsure:

by **Con** » 27 Jul 2007, 10:20

overkill tent was amazin the whole weekend...missed kj sawka ;( needed my sleep that nite

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