Wednesday is the E&E performance/workshop school thing. We rehearsed today, and I feel reasonably prepared. Just looking forward to getting it all over with. Turns out I have to lead the songwriting workshop by myself as well, because Denise has some health issues and can’t attend.
We had to drop Waterloo Sunset, but I feel pretty good about the arrangement we’ve made for Everybody Wants to Be a Cat. There’s some talking and distractions in the recording from today, and I think I’m gonna ask Eliza not to ad-lib at all on the slow part as it throws me off my game, but you can get the general idea from this:
Also on Wednesday is a jam night at a local pub, and I’ll be playing Commercial for Levi by Placebo with Robin.
I also feel like I need to really get working on building my set for my dissertation. I’ve only got about half of it decided, and I feel like we need to be reasonably done by the time the Easter Holidays begin, because then we’ll probably all be going home, and when they’re over we’ll only have a couple of weeks left until the gig.
In addition to that, this week Imogen Heap is starting work on her experiment, heapsong1, for which she’s asking fans to contribute. Today, people sent in samples, and I just finished watching a live vlog of Immi picking through some of the samples and trying to decide on which ones to use. She got over eight hundred samples in today, so this will be no easy task.
I would really like to contribute a bit to all this, but with so much else going on it’s hard to find the time. In addition, I’m going to Chantal’s on Thursday and staying until Sunday. Maybe she’s got a quiet room so I can try and record something for the middle section on Friday. I can probably drop some words into the cloud tomorrow, at any rate. I want to contribute teapot and aardvark. They’re good words. Possibly do some images on Wednesday, too, if I can fit it in around everything else.
So much creativity going round! I wish I could use it to my advantage more… I want to write a new song, but nothing’s coming to me. I guess I’ll just have to see if inspiration strikes. I don’t think I could make a living as a songwriter, really…