Rehearsal tomorrow, we are going to attempt choreography. Bring a crayon.
At El Rincon on the 30th for Mathew Street Festival we're on at 9.45 ish. and then on Friday at Michael Careys leaving do. Should be a corker.
Rehearsal tomorrow, we are going to attempt choreography. Bring a crayon.
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Great gig last night at All Things Bright and Beautiful mini festival. The audience were better dressed than us, and got right into it, doing a proper routine for the Macarena Megamix, and generally being good eggs and saying nice things to us afterwards. Well post up some pics and links when we get them.
Thanks to George and Mike and the other soundguy who I didn't get the name of. and to Lucy for the make up. and to Giles for an amazing (and surreal*) set up which should have raised pots of money for BIRD (www.b-i-r-d.org.uk) Note I left at around 8.30pm when the party was just getting going. I didnt find a big Whicker stature ready to save the crops, but would not have turned up in a panda car after midnight. Remember what happened to Edward Woodward (and Nicholas Cage in a piss poor remake only eclipsed by the travesty that was Mark Wahlberg in the Italian Job. Golden Rule: ever remake classics.... hang on a minute I hear you say as the Lotharios launch into Boogie Nights...the exception proves the rule in this instance. Silver Rule ? Tin Pot Rule? I rest my case M'Lud. We're doing a festival tomorrow, I am looking forward to a funking good time... are you gonna be there at the love in?
Some gigs coming up but we're still a keyboard player short. Any takers. Sense of humour and synthezier required.
We were pretty hopeless tonight. Rigby turned up late because flooding on the flyover at Seaforth had caused a terrible catastrophe. He had to surf down the slope and then row his way along the dock road, through leaking molasses. The smell was a bit better than last week, until we did Boogie Nights which was a real hoofer (note to readers in Ipswich a hoofer is what you might refer to in common parlance as a honker).
Will be rolling a dice to decide which costumes and the set list for Thursday. I've been to a place called Primark today to buy costume accessories. It is a consumer hellhole and full of fools filling their baskets with sweatshop produced crap they will throw away to landfill within weeks. I spent £11.50 but will claim it back when we make it big (2012 is my projected date, we will be playing the Sultans Palace and Glasto(nferry). We're all really looking forward to seeing you in the flesh, and hope that you will make an effort with your costumes too. Please remember to smile and wave at the band, they are under instruction not to be aloof. Great rehearsal tonight, only Benny Banger was late.
There was a funny smell in the room and it turns out there was still some residues on the ceiling from last weeks Kipper festival. Abe tried to scrape it off with a stick he had devised specially for such occassions, but unfortunately he hit a light fitting and tripped the main board for the building. An electrician called Dave had to be called out. Not only did he fix it in a jiffy on finding the fuse box, he also started boasting about his new guitar, and his band who have a regular spot at the Red Lion and are playing Glasto (...Glastonferry www.theferrytavern.com) which we have been turned down for the last couple of years, but are hopeful for 2011. Rigby got increasingly frustrated by all of this, and upon Dave twiddling the knobs (of the amps), he snapped and threw him out the window. Thank goodness for him, we were in the basement, and thank goodness for us, that we still had some candles left over from the cake. Not bad tonight, though the search for a new keyboard player goes on in vain. Gordon Ross, Tony Houghton and DG are all 'too busy sorry'. How many more keyboard players will slam the door on fame fortune and success before the 22nd. My guess is around six. And that includes guitarists who just own keyboards.
Something funny happened near the lift, and Ben has put one in the bank. I might explain one day. Better to come from him, metaphorically. Bad news - DG has decided to take voluntary severance due to mounting commitments - his horse must take priority I guess. Good news he's said he'll come to the gig and help us do La Cuchara - our version is 'boss' to use common parlance. Tony H can't help us, it is the end of term. I thought prisons were more lenient these days for petty crimes. I mean how many pies can you stuff in your manbag without a conspicuous bulge attracting the attention of the Aldi security ubergruppenfuher?
We could do with an extra keyboard player if there are any nutters out there reading this garbage, who are prepared to make a bit of a pillock of themselves, and occasionally rehearse (see previous post for foamy mouth ranting text) PS Ole! Sausage munchers! Very poor show tonight - only B and D showed up. (M told me he couldnt do this). But I'm miffed with the rest of you.
Anyone who doesn't want to join in let me know now and we'll call it quits. Its supposed to be a laugh, so I dont want to get on anyones case. But check the ffffing dates and give me some notice if you're Ill, on holiday, at the opera, on a train, pissed, hungover, trout fishing or at the sodding Turnip Festival. |
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