Recent bad Weather

[Excalibur]

How was it for you? Did you get home safely? Did you get to the gig OK? Was the gig cancelled? I was speaking to one forum member last night whose planned Saturday in front of the telly with a pizza was spoiled by being pressed into service as a replacement for the band who had crashed their van on the way to the gig!! Hope you all made it to and from yours safely.

[Jonathan Ford]

All fine for me as I wasn't booked. I had a last minute call at 2030 last night from a hotel in Derby as the booked DJ for a wedding reception had cancelled because of snow, but I couldn't help (I live half a mile away from the nearest treated road).

[sonicdj]

Luckily I didnt have a gig last night as I probably wouldnt have got home

[supersound]

I was only 1/2 a mile away from home.

[hammy]

No gigs till March so I should be ok but heres a pic of sunny Eastbourne.

[Leicester Ben]

Really bad snow in Leicester, I went out for an Indian. There were people abandoning their cars and skidding everywhere, it was quite funny really. It was the first time that I've got to use my Range Rover in not perfect conditions so I had a great time. I'm actually going out today just to drive about and test to see how good the car is in 'off road' conditions!

Hopefully I don't crash it

[surround sounds]

I set up in the morning before the snow came down..
Started snowing at 2ish..
The venue is 2 mins up the road from me and customer said there should be around 120 guests..
I arrived at the venue at 7 for a 7.30 start and the snow was quite bad..
The customer said i just hope people turn up..
I honestly thought she would be lucky to get 30 people but 95 people turned up, which i thought was excellent considering the weather

[stormproductions]

Only about 2cm of snow here down south but quite slippery. Was melting frantically as we were de-rigging. Organisers decided to finish at 10.30 rather than 11pm due to the road conditions and some people were being collected from reasonable distances where conditions may have been worse.

I think my drive home though was less than 150m as I live onsite at a school and the gig was in the dining hall!

[DeckstarDeluxe]

Pretty bad around the remote country house I was gigging at yesterday but the main A road that takes me there was fine so only a couple of miles of "bambi on ice" style driving.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Nightmare living on a hill. Got all the way home onto my road, then took about 45 minutes of shovelling, salting, shunting and swearing (rather loudly) and eventually I made it onto the drive. Very wet, very tired and very ed off.