saturday was good - it was a line-up with other good music which was nice - toy death in particular were incredible. very much a live experience i think, but brilliant. dandelion wine turned out to be really nice people who also played enjoyable music so i was very glad to be able to meet them.
our set was fairly good, but musically there weren't many additions - it's hard work trying to get the sequences and fx happening on the fly plus sing and control the mixing desk. i had originally thought that i might try to do all the stuff myself in your absence but my thinking is that now i definitely need to have somebody else along as well. after watching steve's films - which we used for projections on saturday - my thoughts turned to asking him if he'd be interested in doing the live stuff. it's also really hard to be a performer when all of that stuff also needs doing, and i really think we (i) need to be pushing ourselves as performers rather than just players of the music. i thought our actual singing was good. we also sold $100 worth of cds, both morpheme and the punches or the lies, plus got $30 from our 15% cut of the bands' cut of the door.
on a really wonderful note for future reference, we set everything up as per normal and had our friend the laptop buzz coming through loud and clear, so i asked for two d.i. boxes with earth lifts, which cindy our sound guy happily supplied me with. i ran the laptop into the d.i.s, then the d.i.s into our desk and, bingo - no buzz.
a rehearsal or two for the powwow show would be good - it may possibly be our last all together for a while so it would be nice to do it really well. when are you guys free?
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can we get together next week one night? wed is out...
perhaps monday? thursday is out for me next week. we could do tuesday but it would have to be here.
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