Piano…The final frontier

I am pretty much in front of a piano every day trying to get some muscle memory happening for some songs I have to play live in a few weeks. I have never played piano live before and there is a big difference between coming up with ideas and performing a song. Hopefully i can pull it off ok. I head to France in a few weeks to rehearse with a french cellist for the tour in November. I’m really looking forward to it. My French should get a good workout, my mistakes are always entertaining.

I have had my eye off the ball with other things and have realised i will run out of cds to sell mid tour.

I’m also practising some of the new songs from the next album for tour. It is really exciting to have a new and large set to pick and chose songs from. It means i can pick songs according to how I’m feeling that night. I don’t like the idea of “photocopy songs” where i just go and play them. I want to relate to the song and live it when i sing it. Otherwise i couldn’t do it every night. It would be like performing in a circus act.

At night I’m writing a short film in Irish and trying to get some funding.

I hope everyone is doing well…

Go have a treat…you deserve it.