Last week I purposely kept a good few days free simply because my car had it's MOT. You shouldn't have to leave so much time for such things, you shouldn't expect cars to be...well, broken, but I know nothing about these things. Amazingly, it was fine - no problems at all (which considering it doesn't even start some days is a miracle), but I have to admit - the free time was nice. The time was used wisely - booking more tour dates, tweaking the solo script, jam/new material sessions with Grace and Ali - some of those tracks are starting to sound really strong now.
By the weekend things were back to their normal manic ways. On Friday I played my first gig in bloody ages with Trevor Jones (and Tony on bass of course), back at the Dragoon in Brampton. Rusty start, can't deny that, but when we got into it I think we were really tight. In the audience there was a drummer over from Holland who was visiting relatives, he was incredibly supporting of my talents to the extent that his whole family were encouraged to demand a drum solo. I obliged, of course, because as entertainers we provide a service, but it was a very strange way to end the gig. Nice to be back drumming for Trev though, various commitments (his twins, Tony's family, my drumming/comedy schedule) mean this probably isn't a regular occurrence but we now have a monthly residency at that venue which is nice.
On Saturday I spent the day at St. Faiths in Cambridge to be in the promo video for the title track of the Fred's House album, Bonnie & Clyde. It's an incredible tune, one that has grown on me a lot, really delicate but builds to something stunning. It was a fun day, we were working with filmmaker Chris Jones and had invaluable help from Tom and Sam. A long session (even longer for the others, I had to dash at 6pm to do a show elsewhere) but what a fantastic team! I can't give away any details because it'll spoil the plot of the video but I can't wait to see the finished product.
Performed the solo show a couple more times this weekend as a lounge/work in progress show. Since the last batch of shows I've fiddled with the script a bit more, in fact the show now starts completely differently - but for the best I think. Both performances were completely different - at Jack's on Saturday it felt positively rowdy, loud and with lots of booze, on Sunday at Boris' house my audience was lots of scientists. A very studious bunch, but oddly the show felt more relaxed than ever and really nice chatting to them afterwards. People are great, aren't they? I think this could be the draft of the show that ends up on tour, six drafts in and it finally feels like it's really working. Four more lounge shows this week though (the final batch), let's not get carried away.
Ah yes, and that little sitcom I made with Izzy in January is launched today on YouTube. We made four episodes, here's the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN91MfomKqU
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