Charles is amazing.
he has his own little shed for the party. It's a brilliant shed. It's full of enough tech to keep even the nerdiest person happy.
If you're kind, charles may allow you to have a look at the tech but please don't try playing with it. unless you know how it's configured (which unless you're charles or me you don't) you can easily bugger everything up.
charles does an amazing job every year putting up with my excesses, he's an enabler of my shopping for new toys and he runs the sound and light boards for the party like a pro.
if you want to chat about how wled is used to do some of the fun light fixtures and just how many dmx universes you need to control all the lights around the place, then charles is always happy to chat about such stuff - just maybe not in the midst of the party whilst he's trying to do live sound mixing.
if you're doing karaoke, charles will make sure you're well-mixed throughout. you don't need to do anything other than sing into the mic and he'll make sure that you can hear yourself and that everyone else can hear to mixed perfectly into the music.
charles is brilliant. the party may be a collection of my ideas, but if it weren't for charles, it wouldn't actually work on the day!