yr2wk41 & wedding tune

recorded sunday afternoon...

also - for a little while one of the tunes i wrote for D & M's wedding has been on my mypace, the one meant for the moment when the congregation are leaving the room...

well i've swapped it for the piece from the same wedding where the bride is entering the room... i think it's great, it's over there now x

sore

well, the wedding was great, we had a great time, i got some french laughs and some english laughs for my bestman's speech, me & felinity lindyhopped on the dance floor after dinah tutored us for a little while, i forgot my shoes which i discovered an hour before the wedding, but for some reason my dad had brought 2 pairs so it was all alright...

he wears a lift in the left shoe so i spent the day very slightly higher on my left...

the father of the bride crowed like a cock on the hour, every hour of the meal, at one point i was getting the laces off the grooms shoes while the sister of the bride tried to get my laces, so i pushed my feet all the way under D's chair whiich didn't stop her, once i had D's laces i made my way back to where they were taking a chair away each time with E still sitting on my legs extracting my lace...

my tunes went down alright, but of course they were background music for the wedding so it was a touch anticlimactic for me after all the work i did on them, but they were perfect for the event... dinah sang her tune really well on mum's guitar while they signed the register and it felt just like being in a film...

cousin M bought me a cigar which i hated but i tried to smoke a little of before giving it to felinity's G...

the bride was beautiful, me & dinah cut a dash or two (outfit change midway through the day), felinity was lovely and my mum was looking regal, me, felinity's G, trave & dad were all in matching mossbros suits which apparently looked ok, i was much happier in the paul smith suit later on...

dinah and her mum had swore at her dress for weeks to get it right and made and she was absolutely gorgeous x

reprieve

on monday i reorganised a couple of things to make way for the advert that i still might be in...

it meant that i had to teach this afternoon which wasn't ideal but it had to be done because of the advert...

so today i woke up and i knew i had an awful lot to achieve before i went to work in the afternoon and by midmorning i was motoring along but it was beginning to look a little tight, the 3rd piece was beginning to come together but i still had to get to muswell hill to pick up the suit for tomorrow, write the speech, get it translated in places...

anyway, M from work rang and told me the class today had to be cancelled due to lack of space... so i actually had all afternoon in the end which was a relief...

i got the track into a good state to leave it and went up to muswell hill for the suit and i stopped off in manolos's new place on the way back... by chance his new waitress is french...?

so i qiuckly set her to worktranslating a few choice phrases for me which i recorded into my minidisk and i hotfooted it back here to complete the track - which i have now done... and it sounds great...

dinah has just cut my hair, we have a few more things to achieve and then we're out of here x

yr2wk14 longcat piano improvisation

18 minutes long, with the piece i'm writing for the wedding guests sitting down very much in my mind, and in fact that piece will probably be made up out of bits of this improvisation... mix of composition and improvisation...

just went to see 3:10 to Yuma with spski... very good x

wedding tunes

i started and finished (mostly) one of the tunes for the wedding on saturday today...

i hope the happy couple like it, i'm still scared because i have most of the speech and 2 more pieces of music to write...

arrrrgh x

wedding text

it's been a mad day, my last meal @ manolis's (god only knows what i'd do without you playing on the radio as i left), scratching (as mentioned below) and reading...

yesterday i realised that to the wedding was not in my possession... i think i lent it to dad one day because he had a train journey ahead of him and no book... anyway i was convinced that i'd find the reading for D & M's wedding in that book so i took my remaining book tokens and bought it (again) along with the english patient because the writer is appearing in the world book club's 5th anniversary recording at the end of september...

read the wedding book (by john berger) in two days but didn't find an appropriate reading...

so:

over a few hours i had a look in many, many books before deciding to do the reading as the lyrics to a song, which i'm not going to tell you about, in case you come to the wedding...

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