Shelby

I had a whole group of friends.

We were not staying at that hotel, but we, we loaded into the venue probably around 4 PM.

The structure as it goes, I don't need to over explain it, but with playing a show on tour, you get there hours before doors.

You, you,

You come in, you bring in all your gear, and you set it up on the stage to do a sound check.

The only people in the building is my band and the sound person.

Nobody else is wandering around.

There's nobody that has to be there that early.

Um, so we have a great soundcheck.

The guy who's doing a sound for us is very nice.

Uh, everyone's in a great mood.

We all love new Orleans and we have enough time to kind of wander around.

So after soundcheck, everyone's kind of talking about where we should get food or where we should wander to.

Um, and the rest of the band picks a place and, uh,

I've been on tour for a couple of weeks now and a lot of DIY venues or some places that are smaller than others.

And you don't really have a place to get ready.

And I wanted to kind of change and maybe have a place to sit down by myself to do some, do my makeup or my hair or something.

Cause it's just, you know, you take those opportunities when you have them and this theater is so old and, um, it had it in the backstage of it.

It is set up kind of like an, a very old theater with, uh,

thick red curtain that opens up when the band plays, but there's also a big red curtain behind you.