Catch-up

Oh dear, I've fallen a bit behind with my blogging!

Here's what's been going on in the last week or so:


WEDDING - last weekend

Absolutely hilarious & great fun from start to finish!
The stag-do started out playing cricket on a beach, then visiting a beer festival & ended up with us being kicked out of a pub about 3am.

The next morning, the groom and best man were unable to be found until 2 hours after they were supposed to show up. Luckily all went well for the rest of the service which included:
- torrential rain
- a rather confused atheist elderly lady vicar
- a bride in a maternity dress & a groom with sweat dripping continuously from his forehead
- & an organist who, bored with Bach, started playing the theme tune to Grandstand instead

The reception was great - I was even allowed to do a few songs, which demonstrates how drunk everyone must have been...


AMATEUR TRANSPLANTS GIGS - last week

Two gigs at a three-hundred-seater theatre in Central London, sold out - everything went pretty well (apart from realising an hour before curtain that there was no way of connecting my digital piano to a sound system)

We got a good reaction from the whole audience (apart from one confused friend of ours who had assumed we would've changed our style in the last 5 years - silly boy).

The audience was a random mix of mostly non-medical people - schoolkids, grandparents, paramedics... in the bar afterwards, I met a convict on day-release who had to go back to jail after the gig, a girl who was in the Harry Potter films (no, not Hermione) and a friend of mine who had lost one leg since I last saw him (who...er... I drunkenly may have tried to push over... sorry mate!)

And of course there were some lovely ladies. One girl, describing herself as "Adam's biggest fan" and believing Adam to be the sexiest man alive, travelled over a hundred miles for the show; I'm telling you this because, entirely coincidentally, she happens to be profoundly hard of hearing and registered blind. No, genuinely.

All in all, the gigs were a lot of fun - test-ran lots of material for the new album - plus we made a video recording, so maybe one day there'll be an Amateur Transplants DVD... (or YouTube clips at the very least)!


To calm things down a bit - I did 2 shifts on ITU this weekend, with an unrehearsed band gig 3 hours drive away in between! Could've gone better - I badly injured my index finger beforehand (there's still a big chunk of skin missing), broke a bass guitar string & nearly fell asleep driving home afterwards (remember kids: don't sleep & drive)..



But now I've got a few days off... and I've got nothing to do*!
Bloody typical...


*nothing apart from getting ready to move house again, booking a holiday, rehearsing for band gigs, finding a charity to work for this summer, catching up with friends, getting some exercise, tidying my flat, writing new songs, etc ...