Blog: Match-Fit

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I've spent the past hour or so PRACTICING. I'm KNACKERED! The reason for this is that I'm hoping to get out and about and ROCKING in a live format stylee pretty soon, and I really DON'T want to be faced with the PANIC I faced a few times last year when I kept finding myself thinking one of the following:

I don't know the next line!

What on earth are the chords?

How does this START?

... sometimes even all three at the same time - I mean, it's very NICE when someone shouts out for a song, but less so when you have to go "Er... I can't really remember that one" and they look SAD and you just feel like a TIT. SO, my new plan is to LARN UP about 90 minutes worth of ROCK, so that, rather than having to choose the 10 songs I can remember, I can VARY my set and - hey! - REACT to the MOOD of the KIDS.

The worst EVER example of my Match UNREADINESS was when I did my Work Christmas DO. All had gone pretty well, doing a set I had actually practiced quite a lot, but then I got a bit COCKY and tried to do "Boom Shake The Room", somehow managing to get through the whole thing whilst never hitting a chorus, and thus rather spoiling the effect. Similarly I've been known to BLAST into the first verse of Fcuking Hippy, LOADED with RIGHTEOUS anger and then... er... sort of peeter out by the third verse.

But NO MORE! After a week or two of WARMING UP I have commenced my NEW REGIME: There will be FOUR BLOCKS of ROCK: "New Stuff", "Say It With Words", "Singles etc." and "COVERS". Today I have covered TWO of these blocks, tomorrow I will REPEAT one and embark upon another, and thus CYCLE through. If all goes to plan my beauties, in a couple of months THE ROCK will be BACK! Yeah!
posted 2/2/2003 by MJ Hibbett

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