Overkill

[thehardcorechief]

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

[wagawaga]

THE UNDERKILL TENT

[admin]

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.

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.

[PaulX]

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.

[free spirit]

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)

[Eamonn]

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!

[jsyp]

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 .

[PaulX]

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?

[Con]

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

[G-BO]

suppose looking back at hindsight it wanst that loud, the quality was great and basslines in various sets were the bass was superly important ala digital mystiks, clark, luke's anger...it sounded well, i didnt let it play on my mind

the whole weekend in the overkill tent was amazin....was standing in the bank queue during sunday afternoon when beardyman, scotch egg and digital mystiks were playing...caught the end of digital mystiks and seen apparat...who was yer geezer on after him? leofah didnt show and then clark was great

milanese, landstrum, tipper, NED, von shirach were also unreal on saturday....bangface was great (no surprise)...cudnt really say a bad word at all...look forward to seeing what cunts the overkill dig up for next years event