Prescott wrote:Well they had the fog machines on for maybe the first three songs. Then they were completely shut off. You could clearly see everything!
Sorry but they were on the whole time aside from a few choice moments when they were actually worried about being shutdown. Seriously , im not trying to be rude but you have no idea when they were on and off. They were f-100 fog machines (hidden offstage) and were set to be on 50% all night which would have not set off the alarms. About every 3 minutes the lighting director (who was in control of them via front of house) would do a 100% full blast that lasted about 15 seconds.
Prescott wrote:
She made the argument that none of us had moved when the alarms went off because none of us had heard them because the music was "so loud". Well how is it Andrew's fault if their alarms aren't loud enough? She said "what if it were a real fire?" Yeah, what if it was a real fire, we would be dead, and it wouldn't have had anything to do with Sisters or fog machines. People not hearing those alarms is a problem that could happen with any loud band that plays there and would certainly NOT be any bands fault, if there ever was a real fire. Just like the marshal said.
There. That's the whole story.
Sorry a fire marshal thinks the show was too loud , but everyone heard the alarm and chose not to budge. It is a flat out lie to say no one heard our alarms , when i had patrons coming up to me while i was standing in the the foyer complaining about how the alarms were ruining the show. Fire alarms are 120 db and the show was 106db. No one band is "louder" than another , we have a strict SPL level set for front of house. So since people could hear it at sisters , they can hear it at any other show just the same.
Prescott wrote:
But it was still a bad excuse to stop the show. And definitely NOT Andrew's fault.
I don't know how you think a blatant fire code violation is a bad excuse to stop a show after the malefactor has refused to remedy the situation.
I'm assuming andrew is the lead singer , and if so , yes it is indeed his fault the show did not finish. He chose to end it because "fog is 50% of our show" (words straight from his mouth). When all is said and done we have a no fog machine clause in our contract and they not only used one , but two , and some of the strongest ones you can buy.
Of course most of the time the artist won't allow it, but it was still a nice and unexpected read on the doors. 
Besides, we found Richmond a welcoming and pleasant city. 
