Diary
22nd Nov Cultura, Ede
| Posted at 05:44 PM on November 23, 2008 |
Where's your gun?????
Linda writes
We set off in good time and advised Doris of the post code. Smack on time we were standing outside a place that was in fact called Cultura - but it was in the wrong town - and it wasn't a theatre. Chris had forgotten the contract and we didn't have aphone number to get hold of anyone at the theatre.AAaaarrggghhh
I phoned Jet, who was already on the way, she called her husband to get us the telephone number as we re-progammed Doris to at least get us to the centre of the right town.
Jet came back with the phone number and the correct post code. We called to say we were on our way and explain what had happened only to be told that we did exactly the same thing last year. We couldn't remember that at all - what a set of wallies!!
Anyway - we were very pleased to see the wonderful Errol, unload and start setting up. It didn't take very long, ...Bert was really on the ball. Nice to meet Robin too - he was doing the lights - good handshake.
I can't remember the order that everyone turned up in but Jet and Harry came together and joinned us for dinner.
After dinner we were fooling around and Chris did his James Bond impersonation for us - we were laughing so much we thought we should share it with you so I filmed it - I hope it made you laugh. Steffanie behind the bar offered to be the bond girl and so we got a great shot of that too.
Great sport Steffanie
Sophie came and helped Jet wwith the merchandise, Jan Boer came along to see the show, it was great to see him again, we've missed him on this tour.
Billy Bookcade turned up with his wife and his brother, Bea and Peter came along from Radio Ede anong with the rest of the crew (thanks for the pink elephants Bea - private joke).
It was quite a party in the dressing room - good job it was a big one!!
I forgot to ask in time if it was possible to record the gig but Bert was great, he set up the exxtra equipment needed and we did get a recording.
It was snowing quite heavily by this time and there was a discussion as to whether we should shorten the gig or not. We decided to go as normal but for some reason we seemed to be more talkative than usual and it all went on longer than normal. Sorry folks, it wasn't intentional.
I'd received an email from a really nice guy who asked me to sing 'Only Road Home' .... not an easy one given the content of the song but I ran it through in the interval and decided I would give it a go. It didn't really fit in with the set that we had worked out so after a quick discussion we decided it should go as an encore - before Airport Song.
Paradise Row seemed to really take off and the audience indicated that they would like another song. Given the situation with time and weather I explained what we were about to do and gave people chance to go if they needed to.
It was great that the gig was recorded because I was able to send Peter the copy of Only Road Home the following day..... technology!
After the gig we went to the foyer and said hello to everyone, Jos and Pernilla were there and a few other friends ... it's always great to see everyone - it's just such a shame that there is never enough time to spend with each one individually, but I guess that's just the way it is.
We set off in good time and advised Doris of the post code. Smack on time we were standing outside a place that was in fact called Cultura - but it was in the wrong town - and it wasn't a theatre. Chris had forgotten the contract and we didn't have aphone number to get hold of anyone at the theatre.AAaaarrggghhh
I phoned Jet, who was already on the way, she called her husband to get us the telephone number as we re-progammed Doris to at least get us to the centre of the right town.
Jet came back with the phone number and the correct post code. We called to say we were on our way and explain what had happened only to be told that we did exactly the same thing last year. We couldn't remember that at all - what a set of wallies!!
Anyway - we were very pleased to see the wonderful Errol, unload and start setting up. It didn't take very long, ...Bert was really on the ball. Nice to meet Robin too - he was doing the lights - good handshake.
I can't remember the order that everyone turned up in but Jet and Harry came together and joinned us for dinner.
After dinner we were fooling around and Chris did his James Bond impersonation for us - we were laughing so much we thought we should share it with you so I filmed it - I hope it made you laugh. Steffanie behind the bar offered to be the bond girl and so we got a great shot of that too.
Great sport Steffanie
Sophie came and helped Jet wwith the merchandise, Jan Boer came along to see the show, it was great to see him again, we've missed him on this tour.
Billy Bookcade turned up with his wife and his brother, Bea and Peter came along from Radio Ede anong with the rest of the crew (thanks for the pink elephants Bea - private joke).
It was quite a party in the dressing room - good job it was a big one!!
I forgot to ask in time if it was possible to record the gig but Bert was great, he set up the exxtra equipment needed and we did get a recording.
It was snowing quite heavily by this time and there was a discussion as to whether we should shorten the gig or not. We decided to go as normal but for some reason we seemed to be more talkative than usual and it all went on longer than normal. Sorry folks, it wasn't intentional.
I'd received an email from a really nice guy who asked me to sing 'Only Road Home' .... not an easy one given the content of the song but I ran it through in the interval and decided I would give it a go. It didn't really fit in with the set that we had worked out so after a quick discussion we decided it should go as an encore - before Airport Song.
Paradise Row seemed to really take off and the audience indicated that they would like another song. Given the situation with time and weather I explained what we were about to do and gave people chance to go if they needed to.
It was great that the gig was recorded because I was able to send Peter the copy of Only Road Home the following day..... technology!
After the gig we went to the foyer and said hello to everyone, Jos and Pernilla were there and a few other friends ... it's always great to see everyone - it's just such a shame that there is never enough time to spend with each one individually, but I guess that's just the way it is.
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