Concert — Raplamaa

Load-in for a concert in Raplamaa starts an hour earlier than it does in town, because the van has to find the venue first. Most rural sites have no loading bay, no three-phase panel labelled for events, and no caretaker who knows where the previous crew plugged in. The rigger walks the roof line. The sound tech traces the breaker. The first hour is reconnaissance.

After that it is the same work as anywhere else, just with longer cable runs and a call time that accounts for gravel tracks and optimistic GPS. After 5 Events brings the crew, the backline, the PA and the lights — and the experience of doing this in a field when the venue has never held a concert before.