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Noah’s Ark – one of the nicest (and talented) young bands you could meet – came to make history at the world-famous Maid Of Orleans Studios today.  ‘Twas a pity then that their lovely gear got stuck in the ancient goods lift.  The same band who famously had £100,000 of lovely vintage gear stolen from a trailer a few years back.  Undeserved gear karma, I’d say.

The lift in question is one of those where you have the grille that goes across followed by a sliding door on the outside. One of the band’s magic carpets had slid off the top of a flight case trolley and was trapped in the grille.  Everything was tantalisingly near to the ground but as the exterior door was locked shut there was no way to unload it.  Being a Saturday, there was no one on site able to open it up. So, we had to wait a good three hours for a lift engineer to appear on site.

Luckily the session was not live. Faced with an impasse, the band’s sweet nature seemed to intensify.  The lead singer even offered to go and buy us some sandwiches. Later, we were able to make up for lost time and the mood was positively peachy throughout.