gigulatouress
Well, for the first time in my life I've played a gig.
It was a solo gig and I did about half an hour in front of people.
It's fair to say I was shit scared before I went on.
I'm normally quite good about the whole stage fright thing - usuall having little to none, but that's for acting, dancing, "some sort of performance art"ing, or just playing ONE or maximum of TWO piece of music in a classical concert setting on my own, or stuff in a great big choir where no one can really hear you anyway. Gah. I settled down some once I got going though.
Anyway, despite my concern that I sounded like I was singing out of tune (well, I wasn't, but that it was coming out of the speakers wrong) it apparently didn't sound out of tune at all, and was just me not having fold back speakers.
It went OK. People seemed to like it. I didn't muck up the guitar songs tooooo badly. Hurrah.
Oh dear, I do look rather scary here.
If it looks like I can't play the guitar, it's because i can't (or possibly something to do with it being a piccy bit too).
I've got another gig on monday with the max milton ensemble, but I might feel better about this one cos A. It'll be with a group of people B. I get the feeling it'll seem more concerty than giggy, and I know concerty, however I'll be playing the violin, so I'll probably just be shit scared again. Our one and only rehersal is tommorow.
Oh yeah, and I've go the shortest cold in history. Monday I felt a bit dodgy - mainly sore throat - thought it might have been the singing on Sunday. The odd sniffle. Tuesday - felt like shit, horrible grotty nose, throat, etc, spent the entire day in bed, felt much better by the end of it. Today I have a largely clear nose, sore throat has gone and I've tentitivly resumed some normal activity. Expect full functioning tommorow (even if i'm only pretending to be completely better). I hope all my "i'm-a-run-down-student-surviving-on-no-sleep-no-food-and-occasional-stress" illnesses are as quick to recover from.
It was a solo gig and I did about half an hour in front of people.
It's fair to say I was shit scared before I went on.
I'm normally quite good about the whole stage fright thing - usuall having little to none, but that's for acting, dancing, "some sort of performance art"ing, or just playing ONE or maximum of TWO piece of music in a classical concert setting on my own, or stuff in a great big choir where no one can really hear you anyway. Gah. I settled down some once I got going though.
Anyway, despite my concern that I sounded like I was singing out of tune (well, I wasn't, but that it was coming out of the speakers wrong) it apparently didn't sound out of tune at all, and was just me not having fold back speakers.
It went OK. People seemed to like it. I didn't muck up the guitar songs tooooo badly. Hurrah.
Oh dear, I do look rather scary here.
If it looks like I can't play the guitar, it's because i can't (or possibly something to do with it being a piccy bit too).
I've got another gig on monday with the max milton ensemble, but I might feel better about this one cos A. It'll be with a group of people B. I get the feeling it'll seem more concerty than giggy, and I know concerty, however I'll be playing the violin, so I'll probably just be shit scared again. Our one and only rehersal is tommorow.
Oh yeah, and I've go the shortest cold in history. Monday I felt a bit dodgy - mainly sore throat - thought it might have been the singing on Sunday. The odd sniffle. Tuesday - felt like shit, horrible grotty nose, throat, etc, spent the entire day in bed, felt much better by the end of it. Today I have a largely clear nose, sore throat has gone and I've tentitivly resumed some normal activity. Expect full functioning tommorow (even if i'm only pretending to be completely better). I hope all my "i'm-a-run-down-student-surviving-on-no-sleep-no-food-and-occasional-stress" illnesses are as quick to recover from.