Concert — Saaremaa

Load-in for a concert on Saaremaa starts the afternoon before. The van drives three hours, then another forty minutes on gravel to a property with no loading bay and mains power sized for a house. You cannot hire what is missing locally, so the truck carries redundancy: a generator, spare cable long enough to clear a meadow, and twice the usual stock of gaffer tape and zip ties.

The crew maps the site in daylight, walks the carry from vehicle to stage, and confirms how the artist enters and where the crowd flows when it rains. By doors, every microphone has been line-checked twice, because the next music shop is a ferry away.