New ideas
I felt a bit flat earlier this week. See, there was a point about 5 years ago when the Harvey stage show was taking off, and it was clashing with Fred's House at our absolute peak (we'd just toured China, our third and best album had just come out etc etc). The Harvey show obviously, finally, rightfully ended last week on an absolute high, and the band, well, we still exist but we're all doing other things now and nobody is up for touring anymore. Maybe that was it, maybe that was my peak, was that the good as it gets? Weird that I didn't notice it at the time, I remember just being, well, tired, because I was juggling a lot of projects. As always.
That thought was buzzing around my head at the start of the week. That, and, because we've got a bit of a mortgage rise and an expensive holiday to pay off, I've had to extend my teaching hours a bit. It's great that I can do this; if I need more money, I just take on more work, it's really never a worry. Many don't have that luxury. But it did mean last week ALL I did was work, long, long hours. Not the most creative, but head down, crack on.
As always, though, things work out for a reason. To give a little more structure to my lessons, I've written a 'how to be a wedding drummer' course for my students, and the playlist, all 30 songs, is an absolute winner. Even the most stubborn of teenage students couldn't help but enjoy it, in some cases the most they've ever enjoyed the lessons. At the same time, I met up with my mate Georgie (awesome singer/pianist) as I was teaching her child and she says she wants to gig more, and at the very same time, an awesome bassist friend, Paul, messaged saying if I ever need a bassist...so, out of nowhere, using that wedding set, the three of us have formed a wedding band. Big plans for this are now being made, mostly the branding of it. We're quirky, but experienced, this will be a bit of a treat. It'll still be creative in it's own way. And I'll write a show about it.
Today, I was back with FH, as we were running a workshop in Cambridge about how to be in a band. And I've got the best ideas ever for two more plays that will blow Harvey out of the water. Suddenly, everything feels fine again.
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