Great gig Friday night!

[tollermom]

Wild Mercy had a four-hour gig Friday night at a local artists' cooperative. It was their annual open house, and we got the prime location between the main entryway and the elevators leading to the studios. Over the course of the evening, almost everyone who came to the event came past us. Some stayed for a set or more... others just listened to a song or two... but we got a _ton_ of names on our email sign-up list, passed out a bunch of business cards, and sold a fair number of CDs.

The best thing, though, was that the nature of the gig (basically playing to passers-by and not having to try to "hold" an audience all night) made it a really relaxed, fun gig... we played things that we haven't played in months (or years!)... we played some of the new material from the upcoming CD (and had people standing and being fascinated by the sci-fi lyrics... how cool in a non-sci-fi-con environment!)... we even did things that we'd never rehearsed, when one or the other of us started something during a set break (to keep some music going) and the rest of the band joined in.

Must say, though... wow... four hours on concrete floors... Saturday morning found me almost unable to hobble from the bed to the shower. Thankfully, hot water and Alleve will cure almost anything concrete can cause! :-) I started the evening in my nifty black boots and decided halfway through the night that heels were _not_ my friend on that floor. Of course, since I didn't have any other footwear that would look good w/ the WayCool velvet pants that kestrels_nest made for me, I spent the rest of the gig in bare feet. Heh. The combination of spending half the evening in unaccustomed heels and half the evening barefoot was evil. I'll know better next time, even if it means wearing my Tevas under the nifty velvet pants!

Comments

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

Wish I could've seen/ heard y'all!

Michael has something you and Jen can stand on when you're on concrete floors; he asked me to tell him when I was going to see you to get it to you. So when am I gonna see you? :)

And I can make another pair of pants a little longer, so you can wear the Teva's and they won't show.

[tollermom]

Actually, the Tevas wouldn't have shown under these... they're plenty long (I was sweeping the floor once I took my boots off!). It just seemed odd to put on the ugly sandals w/ the WayCool pants... next time I'll know better, now that I know how ouchy my legs were after bouncing around on concrete all night!

Jen mentioned that Michael had said he had some padding for us... that will be very handy! And I dunno... when are you gonna see me? I'm leaving for Kansas City on Friday and will be gone for four days, then at some point I need to get up to spend some time w/ the Ropers so Bill can show me his editing rig and also dump the ADATs of the current project down to files I can work with. Maybe we can get together when I come your way for that trip?

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow. I have a hard enough time (sometimes) walking around after I take my heels off (because my arches are now used to being in heels.) Doing the rest of the gig barefoot makes my feet hurt just thinking about it. (And the concrete makes my knees hurt - I've danced at way too many SCA events where the dancing is on concrete...and that's just bad. *grin*)