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Ceilidh / Wedding gig / Vikki L'boro' gig
Apr. 13th, 2008 11:18 pmSo ends 5 gigs in a row - and I survived.
Fri - I was really tired after my solo gig the night before - Vikki came round to rehearse for the Sandy Denny Tribute - we went thru 2 songs and were both so knackered we gave up early and Vikki watched 2001 A Space Oddysey and stayed for some of The Viziers cooking while I got ready for the evening gig to come.
The Ceilidh with Govannen was very nice in a village hall in Normanton-on-Soar - Dan was a bit under the weather so we rallied round and he joined us in the 2nd half. Cathy Lesurf our caller was on especially good form. one funny thing - the lady I played at her 60th birthday and I cxmplained about the band's sandwiches in my blog brough me a special sanwich with everything on it - :-)
Sat - a Govannen wedding gig at Rothley Court but with Neil the Cajon Drum on board - turned into pretty much a function band with 1/3 Irish stuff and the rest 60s/70s pop. The crowd were totally into it all and laughed in all the right places and danced madly all night. Even had a couple of lasses playing air-keyboard whenever I took a solo. My voice was a bit kaput by the end even tho i don;t sing many. -
Sun - this gig was supposed to be a little foyer gig with Vikki at Loughhborough Town Hall - the foyer was busy and it turned into a sit down proper gig in the ballroom to about 100 people. We didn't have a setlist and took to weaving our way thru songs we knew and lots of stories with Vikki sat in the huge mayoral throne. Went really well - I sold a couple of Songs for Dreamers CDs too.
The other good news is that Clookai and the label like the album I finished for them and barring a few little click fixes I don;t have to do any major re-works.
And now for some rest.
Fri - I was really tired after my solo gig the night before - Vikki came round to rehearse for the Sandy Denny Tribute - we went thru 2 songs and were both so knackered we gave up early and Vikki watched 2001 A Space Oddysey and stayed for some of The Viziers cooking while I got ready for the evening gig to come.
The Ceilidh with Govannen was very nice in a village hall in Normanton-on-Soar - Dan was a bit under the weather so we rallied round and he joined us in the 2nd half. Cathy Lesurf our caller was on especially good form. one funny thing - the lady I played at her 60th birthday and I cxmplained about the band's sandwiches in my blog brough me a special sanwich with everything on it - :-)
Sat - a Govannen wedding gig at Rothley Court but with Neil the Cajon Drum on board - turned into pretty much a function band with 1/3 Irish stuff and the rest 60s/70s pop. The crowd were totally into it all and laughed in all the right places and danced madly all night. Even had a couple of lasses playing air-keyboard whenever I took a solo. My voice was a bit kaput by the end even tho i don;t sing many. -
Sun - this gig was supposed to be a little foyer gig with Vikki at Loughhborough Town Hall - the foyer was busy and it turned into a sit down proper gig in the ballroom to about 100 people. We didn't have a setlist and took to weaving our way thru songs we knew and lots of stories with Vikki sat in the huge mayoral throne. Went really well - I sold a couple of Songs for Dreamers CDs too.
The other good news is that Clookai and the label like the album I finished for them and barring a few little click fixes I don;t have to do any major re-works.
And now for some rest.
