Ives and Glorious Unseen

Yesterday was a fun day. New Covenant Church brought in The Glorious Unseen and Ives the Band to play a concert. It was an interesting show from a setup point of view. Usually you have the headline act, this case the Glorious Unseen, sound check first, then you set up the opening act in front of them and let them sound check. The Glorious Unseen was not supposed to arrive until 4:30pm for a 7:30 show. So we setup Ives with space for the other band to set up behind and around. Another interesting thing is that Ives uses an aviom system. I think this is what most bands should do instead of purchasing a small PA. This made sound check a breeze because they pretty much already had there mixes dialed in. The us the Aviom split, so we plugged there microphones into the split and then sent to the main snake. The only issue is what do for the change out. I had a couple of the sound guys from NCC helping out and we were able to switch the stage out with minimal issue. There were only 4 channels that had to be rerouted to the main snake so turned out okay. Fortunatly NCC has a pretty nice setup on stage. Plenty of channels and an M7CL at FOH. The next fun thing was Glorious Unseen did not get to the church until 6:05 it really got fun. we got them unloaded setup and dialed in by about 7:05pm. The used JBL VP series monitors we got from Popejoy hall. These things rock. They are loud and clear. I mixed 4 mixes from FOH to the wedges and one in ear for the lead singer. My buddy Jay actually mixed Ives and they played well and Jay mixed like Jay always does. I handled Glorius Unseen who was a very good and well. Well sorry for the ramling but thought give some insights into a day of concert. Remember we have Rush of Fools here at DSC in September 2nd. Let me know if you can help. I am still waiting to hear back so I can get times for everyone.
Here are the websites of the bands from last night.
http://www.ivestheband.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thegloriousunseen
in Him
chris