Monday 25 August 2003

I'm just writing this to avoid having to deal with the mountain of paper on my desk, which I've been ignoring for a week or two on the pretext of having a lot of music to learn.  I must get rid of it all tonight so that I can get some work done in the rest of the week.

Saturday night was great fun -  we got to do our completely tasteless version of 'The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen' as an encore, complete with operatic cadenzas, and tacky spoken intro over 'magical' harp chords. Who needs culture when you can get a cheap laugh?  Well, with Lisa singing it's a very expensive-sounding and well-executed cheap laugh.  I hope she doesn't mind me revealing (singers' tips no. 258) that if you find yourself forgetting the words, the thing to do is point at the audience and smile, and they'll be so distracted that they won't notice that you're singing a load of mince.