One Hundred and Twenty Nine 1 Party Stage

Verizon Center, here we come.

Entering the internal performance venue from the underground parking lot, the densely packed and bustling audience seats are laid out neatly in the field of vision. When I just stood outside, I didn’t have a specific sense of reality. Now I really entered the venue. You can feel the grandeur of the venue.

Ten thousand seats.

What exactly does this mean? Only when you really feel it with your eyes can you realize how difficult it is, and the performance with the largest audience so far is the full moon party with 400 people, from 400 people to 10,000 people. The insurmountable gap stopped the brain in an instant, and it was difficult to accurately express my emotional surge with any words.

When I read the news before, it was really difficult to make a clear judgment about the concert with 10,000 people, the gathering of 50,000 spectators, and the fact that the attendance rate did not reach 50%. tune" bias—

The venue with 2,000 people is not full? Is a concert with only 10,000 people really a small scale? Why is New York's Madison Square Garden only 20,000 people?

It's as if it's really easy to fill a stadium with 10,000 people. After all, there are seven billion people on the earth.

But now standing in the stadium of Verizon Center, I really realize how ridiculous my thoughts are. Not to mention the stadium with 10,000 people, even the stadium with 2,000 people is a huge venue.

At this time, the entire venue was empty, only the staff were busy back and forth, but they moved like ants in the open space, looking up at the seats of the venue that the naked eye could not accurately grasp; hanging directly above The huge square column screen was like a spaceship floating in the sky, but the silent black screen was able to live broadcast the scene of the stage at 360 degrees simultaneously to every corner of the audience.

The insignificance standing in front of the grandeur made Ronan's thoughts slowly spread like this.

The soles of the feet lightly stepped on the wooden board on the ground, feeling the creaking sound——

Because of the expansion of the entire space, those trivial sounds can't be transmitted at all, and only the slight vibration of the contact between the soles of the feet and the ground can be captured with both ears, but the things that can be captured by hearing and vision seem to become distant and long. The things that can be captured by the sensory nerve endings are decreasing, and the stage space that one can control is being lost bit by bit.

It was obvious that this was unlike any stage the band had tried before, not even the open spaces of the street, and no reference to experience meant that everything was new and everything was unfamiliar.

So, Ronan closed his eyes, gave up visual exploration, and opened his hearing instead.

Hoo hoo.

The sound of the wind flows like gurgling water, pouring in from the air vents in all directions. It is gentle and quiet, but it makes the whole space more ethereal, and those trivial sounds flow along with the sound of the wind. I thought it would be impossible to catch it at all. The sound was like an echo, reappearing in a different position after a delay of a few seconds.

"...the lighting angle is wrong, so that and the spotlight will..."

"This is the sound system..."

"... As I said before, there is a problem with this speaker. It has been a few days, and there is still nothing..."

"This is the lighting group..."

"...No, no, no, Bruno gave up the idea of ​​appearing from there, due to safety considerations..."

"The stage team has another team of staff..."

"...We need to audition, whoever goes up to the stage to audition..."

The rustling sound is surging in different corners, everyone is performing their duties, and they are devoting themselves to their work, very professional and extremely focused.

Sounds originating from different corners are refracted to form echoes in different corners, and the subtle air vibrations thus show the mysterious characteristics of the venue.

No wonder!

It is no wonder that rehearsals are required for singers to go to different stages in different venues, not only because the lighting and sound effects may have different effects on the performance; but also, the differences in the capacity, space, setting, ventilation, etc. The effect, every performance is different——

Rehearsal is a responsibility to the performance and also to the audience.

Closing his eyes, the size of the venue became clear instead, and then Ronan couldn't help but see the scene of a full audience, standing on the stage and singing loudly, with applause and lights, cheers and shouts resounding, It's like standing on top of the world.

That sense of happiness filled the entire chest, making every muscle start to scream uncontrollably, as if every cell could be soaked in Sprite mixed with ice, wandering in the blue and blue Mediterranean Sea, The vastness and magnificence created by the collision of the sun and the sea make the body melt into the blue sky all over the sky, while the spirit in the mind puts on wings and soars in the wind, as if owning the whole world.

"I am willing to stand on this stage until the end of my life."

Now Ronan is finally able to vaguely understand the fur of this sentence. The ordinary stage has a magical power of silence, which makes people's heart throbbing. Although he can't understand it 100%, it seems to open A door to a whole new world.

take a deep breath.

Take another deep breath.

After taking continuous deep breaths, the beating heart finally calmed down, but it was still hitting his chest firmly and forcefully. The dull pain made the sense of reality slowly fall, and then Ronan slowly opened his eyes again, and he could see at a glance Julio was standing not far ahead obliquely.

Julio was watching Ronan with a smile on his face. At this moment, Ronan realized that just now Julio was introducing the staff at the scene to the band members—or other notes on the tour, but he was distracted and didn’t notice it at all. Hearing this, Ronan couldn't help being a little embarrassed.

"Sorry." Ronan didn't quibble, just said honestly like this, with a somewhat embarrassed smile on his face-it's a bit embarrassing to be amazed just because of a venue, even without a formal rehearsal.

But Julio waved his hands again and again, and said with a smile, "No, no, no, there is no need. You know? Bruno once shared with me the feeling of his first time standing on the stage. He said that he knew he must There will be mistakes, because he is so excited that he doesn't know where to put his hands and feet, but he is still not afraid, even if he stands on the stage and falls a big split, he clearly knows that he will fall in love with that stage deeply."

After a pause, Julio winked at Ronan, "I think everyone who really loves music and acting seems to be like this."

Ronan laughed and scratched his head.

Julio didn't say anything more, "How about it? Are you ready? We still have a lot of work to do today. This is just the first step. Are you ready to start the rehearsal now?"