Last night we had a really great ladies rehearsal at my old workplace. I love rehearsing with Ruth and Karina, it's always surprising how well our voices go together (well, particularly theirs- I can't hear mine!). I bent down to pick up my guitar lead earlier in the afternoon before I left and thought 'I'll just do a little bit of editing before I go, and forgot the lead. Nobody in the electronics shops in Stratford knew what a guitar cable was. In one place they looked so disappointed not to be able to help that I had to explain 'It's a specialist cable'.
All that concentrating: it was tiring, but we sorted a lot out. It's a mini-band for the High Tide Festival on the 26th of July (The Eel Pie Pub in Twickenham, on at 1 p.m. and it's free!). Lester Square will be joining us too. And thanks to KArina, I know know what a Fluffy is!
I spent this morning re-doing a tricky guitar part, then these books showed up. I now have some to sell at gigs and so on.
I've just done some backing vocals on the track that will be the last one on the album. Terribly self-indulgent, doncha know! The plan for finishing everything is crystallising out very slowly. It includes a lot of re-playing (grr), doing all the lead vocals as soon as the weather has cooled down, a guest guitarist coming on Thursday and another on Monday, a guest vocalist on Wednesday, and then picking up Gran's banjo from Maggie to try to pick a few bars on one of the songs. I feel like Gran should be there on the record, because her spirit (or her genes, Chris Packham) has been with me during my whole life like reinforced steel in my bones, and kindness encircling my mind whenever times have been tough. And times were very tough at the end of the 1970s.
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