Alan HAGOS Haggarty
FOH Engineer
I started engineering in 1985 really. I was playing bass in a cabaret band up in Scotland and we had our own "Philishave" copy rig. We didn't always take an engineer with us, so the desk- an "MM" 24 channel toy that seemed HUGE at the time- was often on stage and it soon became my job to mix and play.
I moved to London in 1987 and after working in Hi-Fi retail for a year, managed to get a job as in-house engineer at The Sir George Robey in Finsbury Park. I met a few bands through doing this and became a member of the Club Dog crew..
One of the bands I met was Senser- a 6-piece Psychedelic/Rock/Dance collective whom I joined as programmer. As well as mixing them live~ running 10 channels of programming at FOH~ I went on to produce their first album Stacked Up, which charted at Number 3 in the network chart (which I wasn't even slightly suspecting might happen).
For the next 10 or so years I did a bit of producing, a bit of playing (with Lodestar, who formed out of Senser's demise) and quite a bit of FOH too.. But after a while I decided that I wasn't cut out to be a producer- too many late and boring nights locked in basements trying to salvage the unsalvageable, too much machiavellian diplomacy with bands / managers / record company types, too much stupid pressure and not enough fun!
So I quit.
I still play and program a bit at home, but FOH is really what I've always enjoyed doing most (and I think it's what I'm best at too) so it's my main focus.
I do find that my little bit of studio experience comes in handy these days though: As PA systems are becoming more and more accurate, it's becoming much more like mixing on a pair of good studio main monitors..
Despite my preference for an analogue desk to actually mix on, I'm always interested in trying out new technology live. I'm really into pre-programming and running intro cues / effects cues / sequences / backing tracks from FOH. It adds to the thrill!
OFFAL PRODUCTIONS
Name: Alan HAGOS Haggarty
Age: 43
Speciality: FOH Engineer
Other Roles: TM / KBD TECH
Year Started: 1988
Previous Clients:
Black Label Society (FOH&TM)
Dub Pistols (FOH&TM)
Eat Static (FOH)
Jeremy Warmsley (FOH)
Kate Nash (FOH/MONS)
Lou Rhodes (FOH)
Marianne Faithfull (FOH)
Mattafix (FOH)
Moke (FOH)
Ozric Tentacles (FOH&TM)
Senser (FOH&Programmer)
Smother (FOH)
Teddy Thompson (FOH&TM)
The Godfathers (FOH)
Tunng (FOH)
Zero 7 (KBD TECH)
many others...
CONTACT DETAILS
SKYPE: lordhagos
HOME: +44(0)1603 870 727
MOBILE: +44(0)7767 345 891
