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You find me in a GLEEFUL mood, for LO! I got a gig!

Yesterday I sent out 3 CDs (Milk & Baubles Eps - I have plenty spare) and letters to three London Promoters, as I thought maybe Actually Asking For A Gig might be a better way of going about things than just sort of moping about saying "boo, I have no gigs!" Imagine, then, my surprise when I got RUNG UP this morning by someone saying yes, they quite liked it, and yes, I could have a gig! I mean, I'll probably be on first and everything, but it feels BRILLIANT to know that it's perfectly possible for someone to listen to my stuff and like it enough to let me play at one of their gigs WITHOUT me having bought them beer, or put one of their bands on, or indeed being IN a band with them.

I always say to other people in bands that, rather than playing to the same bloody people again and again in the same venues (usually here in That London) it's a LOT better to take a risk and go out and do a REAL gig, playing with other people you've never heard of to people who've never heard of YOU. Yes, you might have a rotten night, or there might be people there who don't know how cool you're supposed to be and mistake it for being rubbish, or maybe even haven't listened to exactly the same records as you, but usually you will find somebody new who thinks you are Quite Good, and almost always you will have an ADVENTURE of some sort!

And best of all, you usually end up going on near the start, and thus can get BOOZED UP with your DAFT MATES for the rest of the night! HOORAH! Watch this space for CONFIRMATION when things are CONFIRMED!
posted 5/2/2003 by MJ Hibbett

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