The Brazil trip

Click on a picture to see a bigger version;	About September 1998, Martin from Baka Beyond asked me if I could come with his band, as a Sound Engineer to São Paulo in Brazil for 6 days. I had been asked to go to a few places with bands before, but was unable to because I have a 9 year old son. But because this was for only 6 days, I was able to go! It was really great, we were treated like royalty; Our own hotel rooms and everything! It was the first time I had been out of the country since I was 17.(twelve years!) What made it great, apart from the incredible hospitality was the people in the band. There were three Africans who were always in high spirits, and singing and dancing all over the place. Also the sound equipment I got to use was 'the business!' I had a 56 channel "Amek recall" mixing desk, (recall; it has a computer attatched to it which takes a snapshot of all the knobs and sliders, and "remembers" where they were!) and shed loads of other stuff, all looking brand new. The place they played was the Teatro SESC Vila Mariana and it was for the Festival Música Mundial (World music festival). I just chucked a few piccies in for you to check out. There's some more pictures of the shows on the Baka Beyond web page. They have even got a video stream of a song when they played there! One for a 28k Modem, and one for a 56k Modem.
I've got a desk job!
Long shot of my view
showdown with the street kids!
Baka Beyond's dressing room
All of us!