first gig done party tonight i hope

i performed with greenlaw ave last night, first gig with them and also the first gig with the new module, sat here now listening to tim buckley (strange feeling) shortly to be watching the lady pirates do their thing, so this may be briefer than i hope..

a performance poet going by the name of oneness was on before us. i dug her stuff but she went on longer than planned which in the long run meant we played less. I realised that when i played with kyo there is a whole social world i love, just hanging out with the musicians, that i missed last night. in this gig in camden i knew noone but the two other musicians, who are both lovely, but particularly after the gig when they were both networking furiously, i was packing up my stuff, recieving handshakes and congratulations intermittently, an unfamiliar crowd, just odd to be alone. then after i was packed up i felt a bit nowhere... spoke to this guy who'd played before - really nice stuff, tuning on some of his higher notes a little awry which i really noticed, in fact i'm sure everyone notices that - something i'm conscious of for my stuff... anyway, i introduced myself and said i enjoyed his stuff, he was nice enough, tiny chat...

i made a move fairly quickly, got a few notes for my troubles and skidaddled, in such a hurry to go in fact that i left my manbag, luckily i've been keeping all kinds of things - travelcard included - in the pages of the book i'm reading (the poisonwood bible), so i can survive without the bag until tomorrow when i gig with them again,

as i left i realised that the guy i'd spoken to briefly was the same guy who laughed at me as i arrived, carrying my keyboard i do cut a certain odd figure, at the end of a journey i am really not in a receptive mood for being laughed at, odd that.

i did the whole gig with the fender rhodes sound on the module, still in a strange place about the piano, potentially three gigs in three nights with them from tomorrow so i can check out the piano, a few things i want to experiment with to get with that sound...

and there is a party tonight i want to go to, but i'm meeting E & she's talking like she might not make it to the party, i don't think i'm up for turning up to this one alone, not quite enough people i know there...

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