Schrodinger's Cat

First rehearsal

We spent two and a half hours practicing the first ten minutes of the piece for the Fringe show – probably we’ll need to pick up the pace for the next three rehearsals but it was good to get into fine detail about what we’re doing. Nigel’s kind of been taking over as composer of the piece, but that’s alright as I like the direction it’s going and it’s good practice to play something disciplined occasionally. There’s a tradeoff of less free improvisation but it’ll still be a work in progress when we premiere it at Happy on Feb 25 – the gig there in September was fine with just one rehearsal, the live element always boosts up the energy and allows the unexpected. It’ll be at its most refined when we play the Newtown gigs on March 4 & 5. The audience should get a different experience each time if they want to come to more than one. We’ve got lower ticket prices than most Fringe shows, hopefully that works to our advantage. We need about 25 paying people through the door each night to break even – that’s the one thing I’m slightly nervous about. We’ve got to get a good buzz spreading; people will definitely get value for money.

Still having problems with vocalist Atsushi’s alcohol intake – time to give him a warning about that. First I noticed that his vocals sounded ‘off’ and then I noticed the empty bottle of wine. Worst case scenario we can go ahead without him but hopefully it won’t come to that.

Next practice Wednesday. In the meantime I’ve got to go out to the inlet tomorrow – there’s a big gorse patch to take out and then more banana passionfruit after that.

Four weeks to go til the first Fringe gig, then seven til I fly to Melbourne! The countdown’s begun.

And I had my first swim in the sea for the season at Oriental Parade today – nice sensation. Odd that it’s taken me so long to get around to it.

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