departures and arrivals

Ok, so this seems to have developed into a blog about my band. Not that its my only social outlet or anything! no really, I, um, did some gardening the other day and, er, bumped into a bunch of people at the market last week... No, I'm not convincing myself either!
Anyway, my band... We've had a spot of bother recently, for reasons I shall merely put down to "musical differences" we have spent the last couple of weeks without a bass player. It now, hopefully has resolved itself and we'll be back on course soon, with just over a month before our next gig. Plenty of time!! But an interesting upshot of having a bit of practise time on our hands is that me and the splendid Tone D. Lowerer have finally got it together with a few tunes of his Udu drum and my vocals. It has proved a stomach churning experience.
I'm not generally a one for stage fright, but this is the scariest thing I've (almost) done in a very long time. I say almost, as we were booked to do a slot in the Living Room music night at the Cwps, but unfortunately Steph, who runs it, was taken ill and it was cancelled. But we had a bash at it yesterday in the barn where we practise. It wasn't in front of many people, but I've just heard the recording of it, and I sound really nervous, so maybe it's a good thing we didn't play the Cwps the other day, in front of lots of people! I don't really get what makes me so nervous, but as someone pointed out a few days ago that it is scary, but healthy, to push yourself away from your comfort zone sometimes. So I will try again, and hopefully feel a little bit less nervous next time!
Oh, and I was really impressed with the sounds in the barn yesterday, the good doctor, who owns the barn, was testing his new PA out, whilst we obligingly made a racket. It was a real treat having someone there tweaking knobs and leaving us to focus on making music.

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