Concert — Viljandimaa

The van arrives in daylight because after dark there is no finding the barn. No loading bay, no house power that will run a PA, and the nearest place that stocks XLR cable is forty minutes back toward Tallinn. A concert in Viljandimaa asks more of the rig and the schedule than the same bill in a venue with three-phase and a loading door.

We route the power before the artist arrives, not during soundcheck. We pack spares for the things that cannot be replaced locally. We allow the hour it takes to discover that the breaker box is in the next building. What breaks the day is usually not the equipment — it is the assumption that rural works like urban.