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Incognito
We got in the Guardian.
There were a few patches of thin ice on the night but I don't think the audience noticed.
There was some unglamorous shifting of tables and chairs, my little arms straining up and down the stairs. Waiting for people to stop smoking; rain.
Afterwards, we all got pissed and I was a bit delerious. I got chatting to the mother of two gay teenage boys, one of whom had been performing. "Yeah," the eldest son said. "She had me first and she thought 'Oh fuck, a ginger nut, and gay. Let's try again.'" We went to the last open pub in Lancaster. "You're a load of cunts and it's been a shit night. Bye!" I said. "My thoughts entirely!" said David Copperfield, and we broke up.
I came home to an email from Trina sending me a track she likes. Fuck. I don't like people sending me music. It's an effort to find a polite way of saying "That song that you passionately feel vicariously expresses your emotional history sounds like formulaic shite to me." The depth to which my drunken mood sank in the seconds it took me to scan the line was equivalent to the height to which it skied when she said it was a track I've got on the shelves behind me--which I played, and my eyes went glossy.
You can't do everything, you can't go everywhere, but oh how I wish I were at Ronnie Scott's tonight. I play the video over and over again in a masochism of longing.
Incognito - Colibri
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Hey, you could have just *said* the song I sent you 6 weeks ago was trite formulaic shite - I still love it!
Glad you survived the D***kens night.
“Semi-Staged” readings?
Does that mean that some were read on the stage and some were read off-stage, or that you just couldn’t make up your minds. Sounds a bit stagey to me.
How did she know the baby was gay?
Tried the music. Must be better when your pissed or zonked.
H: Oh no, I quite liked that. The lead singer creeps me out a bit, that’s the only thing.
Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Round Midnight.
TSB: Thanks–it’s such a relief to have it out of the way. It was a bit of both–half reading, half play.
It was the way he sucked his dummy. No, it was a rhetorical device on the part of the elder son of course, but quite witty and self-deprecating at the time. We’d had a few by then though.
And all music sounds better when intoxicated.
you had an audience. that’s a good thing… and one should never, EVER, expect another human soul to like the same music. sharing music is ok, so long as the expectation is that it’s a rock thrown over a fence, with no response required…
I’m glad it went well in the end.
The more you tell us about Trina, the more I think she sounds ace.
Great record, intoxicated or not.
I’ve always envied the community of actors. You guys seem to have some sort of secret that you pass amongst yourselves. It looks like fun.
Tracks and books. I can’t stand when someone lends me a book. I feel pressured to read it right away and return it. And, even worse, like it.
Trina couldn’t attend? Would you have like her to?
If a big sack of cash fell from the heavens onto my head, I’d split it with you. Just because these posts are so well written.
vive la difference…..non?
sometimes allowing others to express opinions, thoughts, tastes different to ones own can be informative, interesting, fun even….not always but sometimes!!
DF: Yes–to my surprise, we’ve actually made £150! I can’t ever remembering being in anything that has turned a profit before. Agree with you about the music.
Isabelle: Thanks–she’s a top bird. We’re well-matched.
UB: Thank you for those kind comments and the reckless promise. I will hold you to that! I did invite Trina but half-heartedly. In any case, Fridays are difficult for her.
YAH: Of course, I agree, but I’d rather not be put into a position where I have to equivocate over something I think is rubbish.
If you’re referring to the talkback session though–I have nothing of interest to say about Dickens, neither am I interested in him as an author. I did the show against a background of reading Middlemarch, which is a superlative novel of great scope, in an original literary style. Dickens seems plodding compared to Eliot.
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