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Nurse Ratched
1:13 Thu Jul 6
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That set cries out for a whoopie cushion.
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westhammerer
1:10 Thu Jul 6
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Not trombone, how arcane, but swanne whistle.
Typically my set would comprose: Lonesome solo on swanee whistle, or a slide whistle, lotos flute, piston flute, or a jazz flute may be used. Producing ascending and descending glisses to their fullest extent. And then somewhat beyond that. Evoking melancholy interrupted by humour. Imagine Rachmaninov on a good day, but without all the fuss.
Here, as solo swanee whistler I would want to homage previous uses of said instrument from Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortileges, Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 1, op. 24 no. 1, Luciano Berio's Passaggio, and the Violin Concerto of Gyorgy Ligeti. I would also wish to allude to pieces by Cornelius Cardew, Alberto Ginastera, Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Krzysztof Penderecki. John Cage's Music of Changes (1951) and Water Music (1952) both feature Swanee whistle and duck calls. These can be imagined then ignored. The great dexterity of Paul 'Hezzie; Trietsch, from the Hoosier Hot Shots Jug Band, should be foregrounded.
Duck calls shall not feature (yet – they play a prominent role in my act 3).
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mallard
1:08 Thu Jul 6
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Who? The Trapeze artist?
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BRANDED
1:06 Thu Jul 6
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She sounds a bit dull tbf
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mallard
1:00 Thu Jul 6
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“ but if you're not bored to death by now, I can add on some stuff later tonight!”
I’m looking forward to next instalment!
Probably one of WHO’s finest diversions from the original topic not involving politics
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Nurse Ratched
12:54 Thu Jul 6
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Please be a trombone...please be a trombone...
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mallard
12:52 Thu Jul 6
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I’m still trying to work out what instrument he plays!
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Nurse Ratched
12:44 Thu Jul 6
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The circus and the ballet genuinely give me the creeps. It's the thought of all those pairs of thick, dusty, sweaty, manky TIGHTS they all wear. *shudders*
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Takashi Miike
12:33 Thu Jul 6
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Lagos, very scenic
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joe royal
12:32 Thu Jul 6
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yngwies Cat 11:42 Wed Jul 5
My main holiday is in January, never any work and the cheapest time to go.
This Jan was 3 weeks in Senegal, next Jan is a two week cruise around Chile, South Pole, Falkland Islands and start/finish in Argentina.
Just need to pay for it now. ☹️
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westhammerer
12:31 Thu Jul 6
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Not a fan of Cuba. Had an "experince" there.
But "The show must go on". Always. There are no sick days. Flu?Gotta play your show. Both corneas infected, pus oozing from your eyes (so wearing contacts is out of the question for several months), blind as a bat and cant wear your glasses on stage? Tough shit mang, you gotta play your show. Food poisonning? Gotta play your show. Stomach flu? Gotta play that show (with a vomit bucket beside you, out of sight from the audience). Band drama (or troupe drama, for that matter) because two people are sleeping together, but one of them slept with someone else last night? And both slept with you the day after? Gotta work that shit out off stage and give your 100percent while performing.
Every dozen weeks, you pack all of your modest belongings in your two suitcases and your one allowed plasitc bin, and move to another city, hoping the rented appartment is OK (some were nice, some had mold in and on the walls, some had rats, some had friendly rats, one came with a creepy superintendent that let himself into my studio when I was out and left me a love letter on my bedside table, ugggh, but the chocolates were nice).
Routine. It is the same show, with the same numbers and same people, day in and day out. It can get boring (I was used to playing a different gig or two every week, not the same show 450 times straight). It actually dosent feel that different from working a regular 9 to 5 job (except with horses, sparkles, loud make-up bright costumes, clowns and live music).
Anyway, I have to run to a rehearsal (chamber ensemble... back to real life!), but if you're not bored to death by now, I can add on some stuff later tonight!
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Iron Duke
12:26 Thu Jul 6
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Apart from all that, just like any other job.
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BRANDED
12:20 Thu Jul 6
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Cuba
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Leonard Hatred
12:18 Thu Jul 6
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FMOB
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westhammerer
12:11 Thu Jul 6
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People like to romanticise life on tour,under the big top, clown water flower et al...
But it;s basically like any other job, except with different, crazy, working hours. Wake up at 9, eat, go to work at 10, work till 8, beer till 3, sleep till 17. We had ten or more shows per halfweek, with mondays off, sometimes.
Some cities were awesome (Barcelona and Amsterdam), and others were bleak as fuck (Dusseldorf... I dont miss your cold damp dark winters. Or your cool springs or languid autumn). I laughed a lot, but I also cried a lot. Its all fun and awesomeness until one of your loved ones back home has a paper cut and youre halfway across the world and not with your family, where you should be.
Anyway.
A typical day (for me) would be to wake up around 9.30ish, have breakfast - obs avocado toast with marmite and nutella side, warm up on my instrument (gotta practice those long tones, scales and technique), and either run some errands or go to the big top if we had an afternoon rehearsal.
Afternoons on site would be used for soundchecks or adjusting music cues (if we had a sick acrobat or different horses, music would have to be changed a bit), or band meetings. (Accrobats and equestrian artists would train, do yoga, reblock dance routines, or warm-up and train horses, etc).
Then came dinner (avocado on toast with marmelade and peanut butter side) , make-up, line check, soundcheck, and show time. We'd be done around 11PM, and off the site around 11.30. A lot here would depend on the access to recreational drugs, yoga studios, and glory holes.
Depending on the city we were in, Id bike home or take the train/subway. Once or twice a week, Id go out for a drink with tour mates.
Fun stuff:
It was pretty cool to live in all those awesome European cities.
I got to work in a new environment - as a trained classical musician used to work in an accoustic milieu - chamber emsemble or orchestra -, working in a 7 piece showband with soundmen, microphones, headphones, preamps, horses, clowns, elephants, trapeise artists, lion tamers, and all! was golden exprience, I now know how to work efficiently in a recording studio).
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Nurse Ratched
12:04 Thu Jul 6
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Arf!
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riosleftsock
12:02 Thu Jul 6
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Nurse, I just hope I never get stuck behind him at security when they ask him to empty his pockets.
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Nurse Ratched
11:58 Wed Jul 5
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Westhammerer - you know when you go through airport security...do they check how many CCs of liquid are in your squirty flower brooch?
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simon.s
11:51 Wed Jul 5
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Went to Cape Town in Jan. Flight a bit on the lumpy side, but great weather and cheap when you’re out there.
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yngwies Cat
11:47 Wed Jul 5
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Fuck, I meant JR Royle..not Tolkien..
Had a drink and having a mare
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yngwies Cat
11:42 Wed Jul 5
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Is that with Royal? Honeymoon?
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