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Jul 03.2009
Hello there, folks.
I just got back from two very satisfying weeks, if a little tiring, in Manchester, Paris and Bra, Italy. Basically the first 6 days were spent rehearsing with my musician brothers Ben, Graeme, Jasper and Scalde for our first headlining show in Paris.
The show was at Café de la Dance, a venue I had been told was really nice and it definitely proved to be so.
Like the last performance in France, the audience was amazing - very receptive, emotional, good-spirited. We all had such a monumentally good time! And this was quite a hard gig, as we had introduced a handful of songs sung with full choral vocal parts, so we had to practice those over and over.
Anyway, while there, I met two old friends, one disastrato and my childhood friend Shane, as well as a new friend, one Anne-Cécile. It was a little difficult concentrating after the show, as truly I was on cloud nine and super excited. The show went so very well. We got a lot of love from the audience and gave our fullest in return.
The performance will be online in full from the Arte website until the end of August, and you can watch it here!
After that I went on an 8 hour train ride to Bra, Italy, which is the Slow Food movement capital city! It’s in the Piedmont area of Italy, about an hour from Torino. What followed were great days of watching short films, meeting new artists and a couple performances.
One of the performances was done alone - in an old Octagon-shaped building called La Zizzola di Bra I performed a 7 voiced version of The Sad Song. I then spent the next day mixing and compositing it together, and the day after that used the video as playback for a live performance in the courtyard of a baroque Palazzo in Bra. That performance went well too and I was very moved by how emotional and open-hearted the Italian audience was.
Anyway, I have just uploaded the circular/octagonal shaped video to my website. It’s the small dark circle.
I invite you to take a look/listen!
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