Long day with Dowsing; arrived at venue for just after 11am, set up massive prog-rock kit, waited around for quite a while. Rehearsal ahead of the evening gig was tense and worrying, I was on the verge of snapping...several times. I've got friends in the choir, good friends, and they calmed me down a lot. Arrangements for quite a bit of the gig still not clear.
Dinner, and then gig...the show itself was a total triumph. How? God knows. Yeah, so there was a couple of glitches when I couldn't see our illustrious MD count in the start of the songs due to the fancy lights but...it was so good, so strong, the second half in particular was a wondrous thing. Huge venue, pretty much sold out, getting the audience to join us 'on stage' (they were actually in a circle around us) for the encore of 'Lean on Me' was an inspired move that lead to a magical moment. I still think it's a good time to go and I'm sure the feeling is mutual, but still - wow, just wow. Great gig that felt like it nearly killed me.
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