We sent our our photographer, Seán Smyth, to the Workman's Club early on Saturday afternoon to document Overhead, The Albatross in the run up to their sold out show.
13:00 - The Get In
The gear arrives. The crew unload the truck and flight cases are unpacked.
The Lighting Desk
13:30 - The Set Up
James Feeney (Sound Technician), gets the all important sound desk ready
Conor Biddle (Lighting Designer), programming the lights
15:00 - The band arrive
David Prendergast (Keyboard Player) talks to James (sound technician)
Ben Garrett (Drummer) sets up his drum kit
Luke Daly (Guitarist), sets up his pedal board with Colm
Vinny Casey (Guitarist & Electronics) updates Overhead, the Albatross' social accounts (Twitter / Facebook)
15:30 - Individual Soundchecks
Joe Panama (Bassist) waits as Ben soundchecks
Give it a few hours and this room will be full to capacity
17:00 - The Burgers
With Wowburger just upstairs, it'd be rude not to...
Joe getting some merch ready for later
Vinny sorts out some tickets for people on the guestlist
16:30 - Full Band Soundcheck
Stevie Darragh (Guitarist)
10:45 - The Calm before the Storm...
The band in the Green Room wait for show time
The band warm up before they hit the stage
Show time!
And then there was the crowd surfing
A power outage cut the gig a little short, but that didn't put a halt to Joe's fun