Our job was to prepare dressing rooms with the bands’ alcohol. The musicians tended to be gentle and kooky, but their managers were pushyMy friend Hannah and I scored a job working in the “artist liaison” team at a music festival in 2004. We were both Australians, living in a share house in London, and our role was to manage backstage dressing rooms and keep the artists both happy and under control.I was 22, with a walkie-talkie in one hand and the keys to a sea container full of alcohol in the other, and I’ve never felt more powerful.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Australia Lifestyle