Magenta
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Can one "rawk" a jazz gig? If so, then we rawked it
I'd been hideously nervous - very unlike me, I can't usually be arsed to be nervous - but as soon as we did the sound check I knew it was going to be fine. The venue was lovely: it's a former church with great acoustics, so great in fact that one of the organisers warned me not to play too loud ("Yeah," said our keys player, "we don't call her Thrasher for nothing!"). As you'll see from the photos, there was a dome above me which drew the sound particularly from my floor tom and sent it ringing round so much that I had to pop a bit of moongel on it; after that it was perfect (so I was told, and so it seemed to me too).
There were actually people in the audience too, not all of whom were family and friends, and they seemed to like us although they were remarkably well-behaved and decorous. But that's West Kirby for you. To be honest, I wouldn't have cared if we'd played to an empty house because it just felt SO GOOD to be sitting at my kit, playing music I love, with people I admire.
Oh, you'll be wondering about my hair. It behaved too, thank goodness.
Best bit? Our biggest fan is the 5-year-old daughter of one of our singers; she said that I looked like Wonder Woman <3 <3 <3
I'd been hideously nervous - very unlike me, I can't usually be arsed to be nervous - but as soon as we did the sound check I knew it was going to be fine. The venue was lovely: it's a former church with great acoustics, so great in fact that one of the organisers warned me not to play too loud ("Yeah," said our keys player, "we don't call her Thrasher for nothing!"). As you'll see from the photos, there was a dome above me which drew the sound particularly from my floor tom and sent it ringing round so much that I had to pop a bit of moongel on it; after that it was perfect (so I was told, and so it seemed to me too).
There were actually people in the audience too, not all of whom were family and friends, and they seemed to like us although they were remarkably well-behaved and decorous. But that's West Kirby for you. To be honest, I wouldn't have cared if we'd played to an empty house because it just felt SO GOOD to be sitting at my kit, playing music I love, with people I admire.
Oh, you'll be wondering about my hair. It behaved too, thank goodness.
Best bit? Our biggest fan is the 5-year-old daughter of one of our singers; she said that I looked like Wonder Woman <3 <3 <3