First online CD sale and last night's gig

Well, minor celebrations are in order as I actually sold my first CD online. Big Thanks to Peter for purchasing a copy of Time Clouds Distant Memory. I had a few teething problems getting set up to receive credit card payments via Paypal, but got all that sorted out and posted it today.

As to last night's gig I think I can safely say that it was the most enjoyable so far, in fact I think I may have got a bit carried away in places. Initial feelings are that it was an improvement on the previous gig, as John said 'That was really good last night, both sets, no boring moments at all, total attention-grabbing. Excellent.' I think it helped that I had some new sounds and tried some old ones that I hadn't used before and it was all quite inspiring. I think I'm getting better at sequencing with the MAQ and tried to vary my sequences throughtout the set. I do think I need to work on my transitions as I really don't like the awkward silences between pieces and I'd really like to do one continuous piece, thus cutting down on the actual talking to the audience in between as I still find that vaguely embarrassing.

It's a good job I had today off work as it was also extremely exhausting. My girlfriend Nereta was my roadcrew for the evening, as Pete was busy getting ready to go off on holiday, and she coped admirably with my instructions to, 'fetch this' , 'hold that', 'put this in there' etc. It all gets quite stressful at times but I think we got through it OK.

Many thanks to everyone who came, especially Steve (Create) who was the support and did an extremely good job, especially considering it was his first gig. Thanks also to Pete, Phil and John and newbies Dave and Ray (who actually came after I gave them a flyer at HJ3)

Don't know when the next one will be, maybe not until next year as I'm going to organise some Awakenings gigs that I don't actually play at to see how that works.