Took the solo loop-pedal show out to a camping event again. Sunny and windy, but not as drenched as last time.
The set went better. Fewer obvious mistakes. Everyone tells me they were impressed and it felt pretty good but I ain't reviewed the video yet.
Really great party with many really lovely friends. Stayed up drinking and chatting and dancing and silent-discoing till dawn. This Saturday was likely the best day of the year.
The new Boing.World Nomadic Operations Activity Hub tent worked well except for that bit where it blew away and had to be rescued by kindly people nearby, who then pegged it down better than I had.
The battery appears as though it would boil a cup of water about 10 times, so plenty of coffee for a weekend. Takes a lot longer on 100 watts rather than the 2000 you'd get from a domestic kettle though. Both survived the tent flipping.
Nice to have somewhere to shelter other than lying in a popup, even if I didn't really use it that much since it wasn't really raining.
Reviewed the video from the gig. Second time playing it out.
Mistakes include almost never remembering to record the backing-vocals, minor wrong-notes, especially during guitar solos. Screwing up the words, forgetting to do a verse, poor comparative volumes between instruments.
And most of all the voice, the timbre creeps so low it's too gravelly and all the discernible pitch drops out. Sounding monotonic and bland.
Though it's hard to tell through the clipping of the mic and the camera.
I've been saying that I get nervous in front of an audience and make more mistakes, but upon reflection I'm not really sure that's what's going on.
Even in practice at home I can feel the difference in the way the voice becomes stronger and more defined on the second verse of many songs. When the synth tracks are all recorded into the loop and so there's only the voice to concentrate on.
It might really be it's the multitasking thing. Audience is just yet more things to keep in attention, more things to concentrate on. Spreading cognitive resources thinner when there's more going on.
Still. Mostly went okay really. Audience did indeed seem happily entertained and despite my list of mistakes, the vast majority of the time I wasn't making any mistakes. Other than the voice still being too weak.
Which gets worse the less I can concentrate on it, including a chunk of concentration lost to paying attention to an audience.
Good lessons.
Here's "I've had it with blondes" from the show. A cover of a subgenius song by Cud. A love/hate song looking forward to the aliens coming and murdering everyone, especially those who wronged us.