Hi all,
Thank you so much for your beautiful and loving birthday wishes. I had a lovely evening of good food, wine, friends and music making.
So, what has happened since last I updated? My show 'Insomnia Cat Came To Stay' has performed in two cities and now has closed. It went incredibly well! When I first wrote and performed this last year it received the worst review of my life (and one which I could probably still quote word for word, it is that burnt into my brain) but I finally gathered my courage and re-mounted, re-wrote and, most importantly, gathered the perfect team around me. While before, this had been a very private project, just me alone with a musician performing live onstage, now I had a director, a designer, a composer, an animator, and a production manager. It became one of the most enjoyable creation processes of my life and the reviews were incredibly positive! I couldn't have been happier.
Unless I had been paid substantial amounts of money but anyway.
Our main season was in Melbourne but we then raced up to Newcastle for This Is Not Art Festival for a couple of performance and that was brilliant. There is nothing like an arts festival in a small town. The place just comes alive and people go to everything they can! Our first performance (in this city we had never set foot in before, mind you) was at 11:30pm and we had an audience of 120 crammed in and watching in spell-bound silence! As an independent, little known-company, I can not begin to tell you how special that felt!
Now, here is a little something for you!
Up in Newcastle we were asked to perform at the closing night party and so myself and our composer, the amazingly talented Roderick Cairns were rehearsing when our designer, Sarah Walker/*
eckyducky began filming. The results are these two clips now up on youtube:
Mandolin cover of Pulp's 'Disco 2000'
[link]Ukulele cover of Radiohead's 'Creep'
[link]Hope you enjoy them!
PS. I also have a very a video of Roddy performing a very, very filthy song of his own at my birthday. I might post that later. But you may all hate me for damaging your delicate sensibilities.