As weeks go the one that just passed was not one of the better ones, though it was not the worst, so at least there is that to be grateful for. Sunwolf's part time job in RL finished rather unexpectedly less than a week after he had been told all was OK, Ah well, such is life, but it does mean now we have to be extra careful what we are doing financially,and as we were practising thrift to begin with my mind is boggling a bit as to quite how we are going to keep our heads above water. There is a plus to this however as Sunwolf is having trouble with one of his feet that makes walking any great distance painful and as the job was all walking..... So he will be poorer financially but richer health wise, well that is the hope, and we are waiting now for an appointment with some medical people to see what can be done.
Monday in SL saw us having problems too. We went to Southbound early to watch Jed Tharnaby, and had just settled in when I decided to do my usual round of tips, only to find SL decided to take all my money. Sunwolf, trying to help me out, sent me a couple of lindens as that often straightens things out, but not this time, they promptly took all his too. Now as we had some other folks we wanted to send tips to we thought the best thing would be to re log, another mistake. We could not get back in for over 40 minutes and I was beginning to get irritable and twitchy as we were due on stage after Jed. We finally made it back with about 10 minutes to spare to find just about everyone else had gone too and we got the all too frequent message from Linden Labs saying they were having problems yet again, Jed, had managed to stay in world, bless him, and was still doing his stuff.
It was a smaller audience than usual for our show and we can only assume that folks were having as much trouble as we did. I found it a bit difficult settling into the set from all the frantic key pushing and rebooting that it had taken to get us there.
At least things seemed to have righted their selves by the time Ari was due on stage and there were quite a few folks arriving for that.After Ari's show I was more than ready to go back to RL and have a few quiet moments before bedtime.
Tuesday, we also had quite a small audience at the Drunken Drow. This always worries me a little as we want to try to keep venues running, especially places like the Drow, and too few people over too long a period means you are not doing that and there is always the understandable fact that the venue owners will need to replace you with someone who gets more folks to attend their shows. This would make us very sad as we love playing at the Drow. What I can't quite understand is that when we look at the figures after the show we always find there have been folks listening in world who have not come to the venue! so if you are one of those, do please consider coming along it makes a big difference for us and for the venue.(even if you are only down to lint in your pockets we still love seeing you:)
After our show we stayed to see Cailidgh Spires perform her set, she did a wonderful job as always and I am pleased to say there were a few more folks around by then.
Wednesday, saw Sunwolf and I hosting at our own venue, where I am pleased to say we now have Ronnie Mayes performing weekly. Those that didn't come missed a great set.
Gweeb, followed Ronnie and these two always make us laugh with their friendly needling of one another. It was another great show, and it makes us proud to think we are giving such talented folks as these somewhere to play.
Our lovable lion Ringo closed the day for us with a great mix of originals and cover songs, and again if you were not busy somewhere else than you should have been there, we would have loved to see you.
Thursday, Sunwolf and I were caught up with RL problems and concerns that unfortunately don't go away without some attention and so we did not make it on line at all.
Friday, we were feeling a bit bruised by RL concerns so it was great when dear Dottie Iceberg told us we could keep our weekly slot at Gurthries.We love this venue and the folks who turn up there. I think it is probably one of the best venues for our type of music, which we know is not main stream listening by a long chalk.
This week though, instead of settling in as we usually do to listen to the great acts that follow us, we had to drag ourselves back to RL as there was so much we needed to try to sort out and deal with.(poor sun had to go on a rush visit to the local govt offices)
We were back in SL that evening ( well for us it is evening), when we were hosting Russell and the Eponymous family at Ye Olde Wolf n Hawk. Russell soon had us feeling soothed and smiling with his wonderful show and I can honestly say I have never seen nor heard of a show of his that wasn't first class, and the family is just filled with such kind, appreciative folks that it always takes my breath away to be with them for that precious hour.
RUSSELL PLAYING AT OUR PLACE.
Mash Rhodes followed Russell with an absolutely blinding set, Mash at his absolute best, so if you missed it then you are the poorer I think.
Half way through Mash's set we had a distress call from Cailidgh Spires our RL friend. She was due to follow Mash and couldn't get her PC to boot up. So there we were trying to get to grips with that while hosting Mash and keeping things running smoothly at our end, a nail biting time.
Fortunately WildMan was with Caili and he managed to save the day, at least temporarily, with a memory stick plug in thingy, don't ask me to be more specific because I really don't have much of a clue about these things. All I know is that it worked and Caili was able to get to the venue and do her set. She sang some truly lovely songs, it is always such a pleasure to listen to her.
Then it was back to RL and those ever present concerns.
Saturday, will usually find Sunwolf and I at Cuddlers Cove, but not this week, there was just too much that needed sorting out in RL and for the first time in what seemed like months we had fine enough weather to enable us to attend to outdoor matters and so out we went to cut grass, sort outbuilding out and plant the summer flowers.
We did make it back in time to play our own venue set for a small but very appreciative Audience and we thank them for showing up from the bottom of our hearts.
Rock Doghouse was on after us as our last show for Saturday and he moved me to tears once again with his beautiful songs and soulful delivery. We are so proud to be able to say Rock plays at the pub and the only thing I can't understand is where were you? Rock doesn't play many shows at times when European and UK residents can get to hear him and if you haven't caught a show of his then you are missing an awesome show that never fails to touch your heart.
Well that is it for this week. We are playing back to back sets tonight, as we go to Arrow and Bows venue and then over to Southbound for our usual show there, maybe we will see you, it would be nice to think so.
Till next time, hang on to all that is good in your life to bolster you for when things get tricky and if you can't think of anything good, breath in and out a few times. If you can do that easily then there is good in your life you just haven't recognised it yet, because while you have breath you have hope.
Sending love to you all.
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