After losing a fight with my printer this morning (wanted it to print out all 26 episodes of the soap, but, despite new ink and paper, it clapped out at 3) I was in Cambridge for a fairly long early afternoon of reading through the material. I met up with Emma an hour before for a spot of lunch to discuss her character in this, and to talk about the Christmas film, but alas - as always we just chatted (gossiped, even) about everything else and it was quite unproductive.
The reading was fine; it works, the cast that were available were in good spirits and got into their characters easily enough (some had to work harder than others; for example Josh and Izzy seemed really comfortable from the start, whilst Alan was working particularly hard to find a 'voice' for his part. Emma, meanwhile, has been messaging me constantly about her character and as a result seems to understand it better than I do). There's a few dud lines, but nothing that can't be fixed. This is going to be a lot of work, but really, very, very doable and I've got a lovely team here.
Then dashed over to the band HQ to load up and then over to Kimbolton to play a wedding gig in the castle there. Wedding gigs are our bread and butter, it's proper professional, jobbing musician stuff - the wedding set is 100% cheese and we play it perhaps without the gusto of our main project. But we play it well, we're so tight, we're worryingly strong as a function band. Always a plan b, I guess? I hope we never have to do plan b permanently, but this keeps the bills paid. Nice audience, nice vibes.
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