Gig report: Dowsing For Sound @ Busking outside the Guildhall, Cambridge

Band: Dowsing For Sound
Venue: Just outside The Guildhall, Cambridge
Date:12/05/12
Audience: Lots of them, gathered around
Set: Not sure.
Notes: Ahead of the absolutely huge gig at the Corn Exchange, Dowsing For Sound - the choir, complete with acoustic band (featuring myself on congas, Andrea, Gav and Nicky) played outside The Guildhall in Cambridge, it was licenced busking. We had a fantastic crowd and it was nice to see some friends there (especially Heather - I forget what a good friend she is sometimes). Although it was sunny, the conditions weren't great - because of the wind, so timings were a little askew sometimes as we couldn't always follow each other. The ending of that Coldplay song was terrible - and I didn't like the way it was so obviously terrible. So, I made a mistake, but I do feel it could have been not so clear to the audience somehow, professional dignity and all that. The choir were in awesome voice throughout, and as a whole it did get better as it went along, song by song. The Corn Exchange gig will be incredible - but that's weeks of rehearsals away, and we'll be a full band then with mics and everything, rhythmically today was just a bit of a struggle.