Monday 13th July 2015

Did a little work in the office this morning; my brain was on overdrive last night so didn't sleep too well and this morning felt very, very Monday. Last week it looked like I had made the company four grand (by accident, I for some reason said the right things to a client), well, we lost that today anyway, never mind.

Then did an afternoon show for an English language school. The plan being that my show would help these young Italians (all aged between 12-14) get a better grasp of the English language. What they didn't take into account is that my show isn't a kids show and I talk very fast. What I didn't realise until about 5 minutes before the show was that they're all kids - I assumed 'students' meant teenagers at least. What a disastrous booking, can't believe I got paid for that. Literally me shouting for an hour, in front of a room full of kids who didn't react at anything at all. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

I then calmed down and met up with my good friend Nathan for a bit of food and to chat about a new project. I haven't seen Nathan properly for ages, as much as we've been meaning to meet up, we did a lot of gigs together a few years back. Nice to catch up, and the project itself; a dance/electro-pop crossover with spoken word storytelling is called 'Anxious' and is based on some notes that I've had knocking around for a while. Whenever I get a bit of time I'll write more of it, but it feels already like an interesting project that, with a few guest voices (ideally actors who can talk melodically) could be a beautiful album. I've had this desire for ages to write an album that is perfect for late night driving...this could be it.

From that, I was off to FH rehearsal, so collectively we could go over the bits we played badly at the weekend with the new original songs. We nailed it tonight, really strong. I got a very stroppy with Vikki for forgetting to give me a solo during our run-through of River Deep Mountain High, which suggests that actually, despite the fact I've been quite chirpy and positing fun stuff on Facebook, I'm not quite coping as well as I think I am.