Such a long day!
Up just after 6am, A kindly gave me a lift to her workplace in town - meaning I could then walk to the bus station and get an hour and a half bus over to the village, followed by a 20 minute walk, to pick up my car. Had to wait 40 minutes whilst they were finishing it - alongside the starter motor they found various other things wrong with it (coolant leak, bad tyre etc) but all fixed now. I've only had this car for four months - it cost me £900 to buy but I've already spent £400 in fixing it.
Drove home, picked up drums, then off to my regular Thursday school - made it just in time. Aggressive little students there, a few with attitude problems (but also quite a few who are really on it), always feels like hard work.
From there over to three private lessons, all of which were really strong today - lots of progress being made all round, lots of ideas, lots of proud parents.
Then from there onto a long FH rehearsal. I like it again now, I had my doubts earlier this year but you know what? This might all be okay, it's starting to gel a bit. Sara may be new and occasionally, understandably nervous but she does have a wry sense of humour and I think she'll be fun on tour (I dig at her horrid taste in country music, she digs at my love of football), whilst G remains the best bassist I've ever met - I often forget to appreciate just how good he is, but he makes things very easy for me as a drummer.
I've got so much to do, still - HOP arrives in Ireland next week for a couple of shows and there's accommodation issues; the contracts I'm on is for 'me' not my 'team' - not my choice, but the show is in my name. As a result, I'm in a swanky hotel all expenses paid but my three-person choir (Rachel, Mel, Dan) are currently without anywhere to stay. I'm being pushed all over the place for other admin requests too - press releases, details of a show I'm filming later in the month etc but look - I left the house at 6.30am, I got home just before midnight.
Maybe I've taken on too much?
It's nice to be in-demand, though, I think I would crave for these days if I didn't have them.
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