Schrodinger's Cat

Seems like Nannos' heart is in the right place

Wellington gig looks to be on April 23rd at Photospace...

An interesting wrinkle on the planning front is the question of finding a venue in New Plymouth. I'm also interested in playing in Hamilton and P North, maybe even Auckland, but in the meantime:

"Hi Dave,
"Sorry I havent got back to you earlier., after the response that we had from
the last gig I think I would prefer not to host another. Your style of music
is very interesting but only appeals to a select bunch of people and I'm not
too sure how to market it correctly. I'm not intending to offend you, I just
think that it would be difficult to attract another audience. My advice to
you is that you contact Raw Records, they are a high profile music store and
they recently had a gig there that had a good turnout. My friend Nannos asks
that you check out his website as he likes to play craaaazy muzak
www.soundclick.com/nannos
"Churr.
"Krysten"

Funny, I would have thought the people running a 2nd hand music store, presumably open minded people taking an interest in things, would have been the most receptive. I must have frightened them - turning up in a blue & white striped t shirt with a banjo, a laptop and a sunburst les paul (of nz origins in the 70s sometime - a fake gibson made by someone in their shed in an edition of one, with paua shell fretboard inlay)... they must have expected someone in de rigeur New Plymouth black clothing, like the uniform at New Plymouth Boys' High (and my time there basically sucked), and especially with a name like Dave Black. I thought the gig in January went quite well - they've got a decent venue, they could be having a regular series of gigs by touring performers & locals.

...& of course the only gig of mine that my parents have come to to date was the one where one of the band got drunk and then naked.

& then there was that (in)famous bad review in NZ Musician.

& strumming guitar on a porch in Melbourne someone yelled "you're terrible!"

& a neighbour in Nelson wrote a poorly-speeled letter abusing me for practicing drums.

& I used to open for Sticky Filth playing solo acoustic guitar & harmonica.

& I played with a 12-piece free noise ensemble at Sweetwaters '99.

& I got kicked out of Wellington (believe? - T/F).

& Liz Barry said my music was "just too weird" to play on Homegrown.

& aren't all the great artists misunderstood at the time?

& I used to write songs but went through various breakdowns & angsty bits, so I've had to learn to walk again (metaphorically) - I'm always learning & evolving.

& now I'm living in Nelson, and wanting to play gigs in your part of the country, and to promote the new albums (Australian-novel-for-the-ear + 'best of' compilation). So I've got to find another venue in New Plymouth. And maybe the mountain weather will be good for tramping...

Oh and I went to Nelson Lakes National Park for the first time in the weekend - interesting shape, leading up through the foothills into the interior heart of the South Island. I made some field recordings of tui and bellbirds, and a robin came close but didn't sing. Would be great to do the 4-day loop sometime.

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