So many gigs, so little time. Today is the first full day I've had at home for a while so it's time to catch up with everything! The house is a tip - Phil or I have had gigs and every bit of floor space is covered with guitars, fiddles, amps, boxes of catering stuff like plastic cups and paper plates - the other surfaces are covered with piles of papers and forms I need at gigs, to do lists, running orders and the like.
Unfortunately things in the house are ceasing to work properly - how is this happening all at once? The disc drive in my iMac just spits out discs after a nanosecond; a connection in one set of speakers, an integral and irreplaceable one of course, has broken. The dishwasher has become erratic, the ignition on the gas hob has stopped working and various latches on doors and windows are faulty. All this happened this week!
But none of that matters because the gigs have been great! Just last Saturday we had Transmitters - the ones that went on to become Loop Guru and Transglobal Underground - let's say a select and discerning audience came along, but enough people that it felt really 'happening'. Everyone involved was a pleasure to deal with - we'd rebooked 100 Ways to open the show - they were tremendous, and we had Simon aka Rex Offender on the decks playing punk and reggae, and of course we had the Transmitters who were a revelation - I enjoyed listening to their cd a couple of months ago, but they sounded much more complete and interesting live!
This Saturday in a departure from my policy of original music only we've got a great tribute band, Letz Zep - as I write, the advance sales are identical to the advance sales for Bitter Springs/Band of Holy Joy (the best seller so far!) with three days to go - I'm so excited about this and I've got a great team of Angels on board for the evening! After that I'll have a few weeks to catch up with myself and get the house fixed before the July gigs featuring Circulus and Ian McNabb.
