Life Begins

Saturday was a fairly simple story. Bit of a lie in. Go to the office. Rain. Get some work done. Have some dinner. Back to bed. It wasn’t particularly exciting but it does give me an excuse to catch one day up on this blog and tell you about Sunday in the same posting.

Having said that, the majority of Sunday was remarkably similar to Saturday. Bit of a lie in. Got to the office. Rain. Get some work done. I don’t want you to think that my life is regimented in any way, but I do mostly work, play gigs and run Freedom of Expression shows. I like it that way.

In the evening Jenny drove me over to Lewisham to The Fox to play a half hour-ish set for The Hangover Sessions. Carl runs these evenings and they’re great. There’s always a good few people there and this week there were lots of people, all of whom appeared to be happy to listen to Simon and I play the same set we did on Thursday (Impatience, Perfect, Friends, Manual, Select and Hidden), not that they knew it. The songs are coming together nicely with the new bass lines and it was definitely the best of the three gigs we’ve done together. If I hadn’t stuttered badly at the end of Manual it might have appeared to those not in the know to have been an error-free performance.

I’m still working on my positioning on the stage now that Simon’s there as well. I’ve got used to playing on my own and haven’t remembered to arrange myself during the sound checks so that we can see each other and the audience. Consequently I’ve played three gigs with my back to him, which I imagine must be fairly unpleasant. Tomorrow life really does begin (apparently) and we’ll be at my ‘home’ gig in The Green Dragon so I’m going to try and remember to arrange myself properly onstage. I’ll report back on Wednesday. Tomorrow I’ll write about today, the day after that I’ll write about tomorrow. I hope that makes things clear.

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