What a week it has been, on Tueseday, Wolf n Hawk played for the first time at the Drunken Drow. I love the aquarium there and outside there is a 2story circle of shops selling elven and magical merchandise. It is well worth a look. I am always a little nervous when we play a venue for the first time and it didn't help that as we took the stage a wall suddenly appeared to either side of me. At first we thought it was a griefer, but it turned out to be attached to me. Lord ,that was embarassing. It turns out my pc had a funny turn and instead of giving me my singing hud it gave me the wall, oh well. Fortunately it was soon put right and we went on to have a good show, though it took me quite a while to settle down.
Wednesday saw us playing at our own venue before we went on to host to other acts there. This didn't go according to plan either. The sim crashed with with server issues, we had quarter of a hour of our set left to play and were desperately trying to get back only to be thrown around the grid. I have always said that the live music scene is peopled by some of the best folks in SL and this experience confirmed to me the truth of that statement. I tried to talk to several people in the various places that sl logged me into,but no one would speak to me. I was completely ignored except for one guy, and he only gave a one word answer. I was glad to finally get back to the pub, though it took over half an hour or more, messing up most of the evenings entertainment. Luckily we managed to get our last act in on time and Gweeb gave us a good show. We chalked up the rest of it to experience, and one we don't care to repeat too often.
Thursday saw us at Waffles to watch Conor Savage, such a great talent and wonderful singer. It was lovely to hear him again. In fact we nearly missed our cue, as we were on stage directly after him and I was lost in his music.
Later that evening ,Sunwolf and I visited Spice, another favourite haunt of ours. The venue was looking lovely as Katja and Tim had switched over to a spring setting, no more cold old snow. Oh how I am looking forward to that in RL, as I write we have over 6 inches of snow that doesn't look inclined to melt very quickly.
Tim Anadyr performed a beautiful set for us all at Spice, followed by the powerful voice of Clair Durval. Then it was the turn of Lyn Carlberg with his lovely gentle songs and relaxing style, and I do have a soft spot for his dear little red dragon.
To cap off a wonderful night, a fantastic set by Mash Rhode, and if you haven't caught a set of his yet, please put him on your lists of acts to see you won't regret it. Mash had not done a show since before the new year so it was a real treat to see him again.
Normally after Spice, we log off as it is very late in the UK by then, but we could not resist zipping over to Leiras venue to listen to Quinton Whitman performing a half hour of original tunes. Lerias is a nice little venue with some friendly folks around so if you haven't been there, why not check it out.
We went off to bed chilled out and content after Quintons set. I love just about everything Quinton plays, but his originals are truly inspiring and touch the heart and soul. His song Take My Hand always brings tears to my eyes, it is so lovely and the sentiment conveyed in his voice never ceases to touch me.
Friday saw a repeat of Wednesday, the sim crashed again with server issues and I must confess I was starting to loose my cool. We run for 3 hours twice a week and it had to happen during those 6 hours and twice in the same week Grrrr. As it was, Gweeb had stepped in to help us out after our original act had RL issues and had to cancel, and then poor old Gweeb gets stuck who knows where We could heard him trying to work out what was going on, but we could not find him and all efforts at TP or IM failed and we were stuck at the venue unable to get out, frustration abounded.
Eventually the sim came back on line and our 2nd act, Cailidgh Spires was able to get to us albeit a bit late. One good thing came out of it, as she made us laugh with an ,on the spot song, she wrote about it all.
Ringo Robonaught, our lovable lion finished off our evening at the pub, with a set of songs that went some way to reminding me how much Sunwolf and I enjoy running out little venue.
Deltek and Paine having fun at our first show for Pelican Cove.
Saturday saw us at another new venue. Pelican Cove, is a pirate themed place, full of palm trees, nice white sand and hidden treasure. It is well worth exploring this sim as a lot of work has gone into it, there are hidden walls and secret places to discover and the Captain and his Bosun are nice folks only too happy to show you round if you like.
Our set went well , and we will be playing there again soon I think.
Talking of playing, Sunwolf and I are trying an experiment at the moment, where we are playing mainly our own songs with just a few covers thrown in if they are requested. So far this seems to have been well received, but do let us know what you think as constructive criticism is always welcome.
Sunday saw us taking a day away from the machines to turn our attention to RL and catching up on things that need doing there, plus some much needed rest and practise of new songs we have yet to give an airing to.
It was a busy week both in RL and SL but apart from the sim problems it was a good one.
Till next time,
May all your joys be great and all your problems small.
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