time to do my weekly sum up of what's being happening in Real Life as well as Second Life.
Sunwolf and I had said we would have Mondays away from the machines. No sooner did we say it than we discovered two of our favourite artists were playing at one of our favourite venues, in SL, oh temptation!. We succumbed , as you probably guessed we would. Tim Anadyr and Dusty Smythe are always well worth listening to and we enjoyed ourselves. Dusty can always makes us laugh and in these days we value that very highly. After these two, we did in fact have the rest of the day sorting out our RL chores which went a little lighter as a result. An old friend of mine once said, a plan should always be used as a guideline not as a rigid structure to bind and suffocate spontaneity , as in all things it is the balance between that is important (last words are mine).
Tuesday was a bit hair raising, in RL Sunwolf had been playing with our Malamute, Ka, and she managed to catch him in the corner of the eye with one of her rather large claws. We had a set to play that night for the lovely venue Drunken Drow and we got through it though Sunwolf was in quite a bit of pain and often couldn't see too well the chords or notes. Isn't it odd the way if one eye waters then the other will too even though there is no reason for it to do so. Cailidgh Spires and Ari the little Dragon both had sets following ours so we stayed to catch them. It was interesting to note the difference between Caili,who is a seasoned performer of several years and Ari who is just starting out and of course us, Wolf n Hawk, who have now been playing for over 5 months now.
Wednesday saw us with our venue owners hats, on rearranging time slots. We had a cancellation to sort out and The wonderful Frank Molko stepped in to help us out. It meant we, Wolf n Hawk, would be playing an hour later, but that was a small price to pay to have Frank doing a set in the pub. Our lovable rogue and crazy friend Gweeb ended the evening for us.
Thursday saw one of those odd coincidences happen that seem too coincidental to be so, if you get my drift.
Just before we were due to play our usual show at Waffles, an RL as well as SL friend we have known for years n years suddenly came on line after several months.We don't get to see too much of each other in RL either as we live quite a way apart now, but he was able to stay and catch our set.
Conor Savage was on before us and again I just got lost in this man's beautiful music.
Jed Tharnby followed us and we always enjoy listening to him.
We then needed to log off to get some food etc in RL but were back for our evening at Spice where we saw Tim, Lyn Carlberg a lady singer who's name I am afraid I missed.
At this point I would like to say that anyone who shares their artistic talents with an audience is giving a great gift and it is not to be underestimated, but in my opinion and the opinion of several other folks who have spoken to me. If a person is using all backing tracks with vocals only added then that is not really live music, it is a live singer yes, but not live music and really should not be advertised as such. Several live music enthusiasts have said they felt a bit cheated when they turned up to a show billed live music to find it was, a Karaoke singer only, (those words are not mine) in fact one guy had quite a rant about it, so maybe, again wearing my venue owners hat, we could make that distinction when advertising out shows. I want to make it quite plain that I am not making a value judgement between the two genres each has it's place and it's fans in the rich and wonderful 2nd life music scene.
Oh and I should also state that the reason I did not catch the aforementioned lady's name was because I had been busy with I M's from musicians who play our venue and needed to sort out our calender, sometimes you have to grab folks when you can.
That evening was rounded off by a lively foot stomping set by Mark Seery, and again here comes my stock phrase, if you haven't caught a set of his then you are missing out.
Friday we played our usual Guthries slot, how I love that place. Dusty Smythe was there making Sunwolf laugh when ever he looked at the local chat. I have to sit too far from the pc to see it which I sometimes think is a blessing in disguise.
We watched the usual line up there for Fridays, which is Moses, Laz and Quinton.
We took a quick RL break and then were back on line hosting our own venue.
Steveeolio opened for us, always a soothing experience. He was followed by Cailidgh Spires with her particular brand of madcap and mayhem.
Our last act for the evening was Ari, our friendly little dragon, she was having her debut at the pub and as folks kept her playing for an extra 20mins I would say it was successful.
Sunwolf and I then popped over to Chez Roz to watch Russell Eponym. Russell is another artist who soothes my spirit and the venue is so lovely, outdoors with trees , water and open space, my description doesn't do it justice, so why not pop over and have a look yourself, if you are a member of SL community and if not then that's a good reason to join.
We ended our day at Cuddlers Cove, who only had one show that night, so we ended up listening to the Gweeb again! but we don't regret that, he is a true entertainer and can always make me smile.
Dances as wolves (teehee)
We had a sheer silly moment on Saturday morning when we slipped into our wolf avis and went to see Peet Peterman at Guthries(another artist well worth giving a listen to.) Wolves dancing on a couple ball looks hilarious and we had several other people laughing too, always a good thing. We didn't worry about what Pete may think as he plays as a Chimpanzee in any case.
Saturday at Cuddlers Cove is as I am sure anyone who reads this regularly will know is our usual stopping place. It was a fantastic line up, with Quinton doing an all original set, and as I love just about every song he has played for us I had no complaints there. then Anj Gustafson's full and rich set delighted our ears before
Rock Doghouse moved me to tears with his wonderful piano playing and lovely inspiring songs.
After Cuddlers, Sunwolf logged out, but I popped over to our place with another long time RL friend Blackdwarfbud, and we had a chat to our lovable lion Ringo, who was over there having a pint, while a couple were dancing to the radio behind him.I think it is wonderful that folks feel they can use Ye Olde Wolf n Hawk as a meeting place when there are no live shows, and if they hit our vote box on the way in or out then that is even better.
Sunday we spent quite a bit of time on redoing our bio, taking lots of photos re writing the blurb, that sort of thing, as it had come to our attention that some people think we play only old folks songs and that is not so. We have a list of covers from, Richard Thompson to John Lennon and others in between, plus we have quite a few of our own original songs as well. There was quite a bit of work involved but we think the end results are worth it.
Well, that's all for this week, I have just found out that we now have two shows to do tonight instead of our usual one, so I have to get this posted and fly to RL to get organised, well as organised as I get anyhow, but before I go, for those who may be wondering about Sunwolf's eye, a trip to the doctor and some gooey ointment seems to have sorted it out just fine Phew!.
So until next time may your days be filled with love and light.
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