Sunday 20th October 2024

Woke to alarm at 0830. Got up and made tea. Made a couple of trips to the car to start packing my band gear. Aki cooked breakfast. Headed off for Stoke Newington around 1015. Parked up in front of the theatre to unload my stuff, then parked around the corner. Walked up to Cazenove Road to visit Bee...she fancies singing a couple of numbers at the Tower gig night in December. We agreed to meet up again in November. Walked back to the theatre and spent about half-an-hour setting up my equipment. Not a lot of room on the band stage. My amp is tucked beneath the chair I'm sat on. We worked though the main song numbers with the girls over the course of the afternoon, took a break, then went through the incidental pieces, trying to find working compromises on volume levels. Tricky afternoon. Broke around 1630 and managed to have my packed lunch. The dress run was supposed to happen at 1830, but got delayed. We stumbled through eventually, and the show seemed to hold together reasonably well, though there are plenty of sticky moments that will need ironing out at some point...though there doesn't appear to be any time plotted in for doing so! Felt I couldn't take the risk of leaving my pedals and amp in situ, as there's still some set painting and building to be done, so I dismantled everything, and stuck the amp and a hold-all full of pedals and cables in the dressing room, but lugged the guitar back to the car. Got home about 2220. Aki got in the bath, and I caught a bit of MOTD2 before bath and bed...