10/09/2007

review/preview

well, as a show, i thought that saturday night was neither the greatest we've ever played nor particularly bad. i did enjoy having more hands on in terms of the actual music, but i thought my singing was not particularly good, especially on listening in for static. federico worked out ok (and his installation actually really suited sounditout's costumes - they work well together in the photos). i was actually not very conscious of him, which is probably good from a performance point of view.

we sold enough cds to cover the mastering and begin paying for the production (which was relatively inexpensive, but still needs to be paid - i borrowed money from the grant for it!). i've just pasted up a version of the artwork to go on promo copies to start sending out so i'll print them out tomorrow and get on with it. which also reminds me i haven't registered any of the new stuff with apra...

as for saturday, i'm quite looking forward to playing in another new environment, and amongst ears which i think should be fairly sympathetic. i've been thinking i'd really like to do the two tracks we ended up leaving out - requited love and item number - perhaps even to open with. we have a 30 minute slot - any other requests? as to actual details, we are first on the bill, which is good as we can set up properly! we begin at 10. the organisers will be there from 8:30 so we can get in anytime from then. we don't have any live art organised, but there is a visuals person booked for the whole night. are we happy to go with whatever is done by them, or do we want to also have some input of our own?

i think we do really need to up marcella's vocal input as both of you stated on friday night. at the moment, we have heartland as a kind of showstopper for when we play live, and dust kind of did that on morpheme, but we aren't harnessing that at all in the new recordings. the real issue is actually just doing it though. we've discussed numerous possibilities - getting gem working, adding vocal hooks to some of the more instrumental things. but i think it's coming down to where we started at the beginning of the year - physically doing the work. i'm very happy to write songs, but the general concensus is that it works much better when cel is writing her own things for her own voice. we're all in agreeance there. without wanting to be pushy, it just then needs to get done in order to solve the problem of not having enough marcella. can i do anything to get that moving ahead?

after saturday, the next big thing is hopefully to have the album ready for the november powwow show. that is my goal. is it realistic?

lastly - is there value in us pursuing theatre? i quite enjoyed listening and watching sounditout!

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