Solo songs gig @ Criterion

[unclechristo]

WOW! One of the best song gigs ever at the Criterion! Packed listening crowd and I got to do all kinds of old and new songs. Sold 11CDs! A real boost.
Thanks to everyone who came to see/hear me!

My confidence has been slipping with my songs gigs - it's beena  while and I dont listen to much singer-songwriter music lately either - I've pushed myself in some recent ones, doing new songs I wasn't confident on with some slips etc. This time I wrote of big list of songs I knew really well and selected from those (doing just one relearned one - Write You Down) - wanted to cover all phases as 2015 is 20 years since my first songs album Sounds Like Rain.

I did one set of old songs and one of newer, telling how the songs came about and where I was at at the time. WHAT AN AUDIENCE - first set was not packed but the 2nd set more and more folks came in and listened SOOO much to everything I said and played. i could do ballads, and didnlt feel the need I sometiems do to do "entertainers" - funny songs - in any quantity than I felt like it.

Sweet moment in the break. A big, gruff fella asked me for a CD with Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do) on it. He said he hadn't been to anything "like this" before, saying "To be honest I just came from the football - this is a different world! You really have to listen don't you? And that song just said something to me"
Yup one of those charmed gigs and a great boost for my songs confidence. I have 2 other songs gigs this week which should really get me back into it.

Set 1 (Old) - Tomorrow Lives Again, Coming In To Land, Long Day's Waiting, California Dreamin, Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do), Storyteller, Write You Down, Life Magic & Love, Alien Jellyfish Song
Set 2 (Newer) - Science Fiction Eyes, Easier, Lifespell, Superheroes Never Die, Love Space Station, Wiccan Chicken flutes, Out Of The Blue, Three Headed Girl, Leaves - encore The Fish Song

Comments

[meritmaat.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounded like a really lovely gig! Wish that I could have been there. (Looking real good on the pictures, by the way :-))

[unclechristo.livejournal.com]

Thank you dahlink. :-) You made my day :-) Tho I think I need a haircut.
Yes it was a special gig. Oddly I have 2 more songs gigs this week... That should get my head back into songs...