Monday 27 October 2008

Sure enough I ended up in the bar with Kate and Stephen before Saturday evening was out, taking up Stephen's recommendation of Fever Tree as the basis of a good G&T, and noting his observation that the entire population of Brighton seemed to be completely shit-faced. I'd gone for a walk along the pier for fish 'n' chips and sea air earlier. It was quite windy.

The audience at the Silas Benney theatre got us off to a good start yesterday by laughing heartily at the news story about Peter Mandelson from the Radio 3 feed before we went on air. I'm not sure if I covered myself in glory in the broadcast playing Cavalli arr Leppard, a Dowland song, and then completely fouling up the intro of the Handel duet I was reading off the full score, but the concert afterwards was good fun in a suitably bizarre way. And in the audience was someone who'd been at our Dundee gig a few weeks ago, and Maeve, going for the audient award for maximum coverage of the UK. She hadn't made it to the British Library on Saturday either.

My broadcast career really isn't going as well as it might this weekend, as I'm told CBC also broadcast me yesterday sight-reading my way through Paul Halley's music like a rabbit caught in headlights at Boxwood. Oh well.

later
Isn't YouTube wonderful? Now you can see this (the first four minutes are just a silly but entertaining gag), and this remarkable abstract guitar duel complete with string break (Mary  was a pretty tidy player too, though the Gibson Les Paul with the 50s dress now looks weird - in a good way) followed by this completely surreal bit of lipsync, with the broken string still hanging there. My gob is smacked.

Also on YouTube you can contribute to an (almost) private joke by clicking here.