October 3rd

I have been dealing with an Italian promoter on and off for the last few months. We’re trying to work out a way that I can pay a small festival in Venice in November. The goal posts keep changing a little. We now have an offer and I speak to Mel about the possibility of doing it as a duo. Mel seems very up for it. I am excited and petrified in equal measure.

Just as I send all the files off to the agency I get an e-mail from them telling me that the client has changed tack. I’m sent another brief and an old 50’s track. I record a sound-alike. Due to time constraints and the amount of real brass on the guide track that they sent me, I find myself getting my alto sax out of its case for the first time in years. I have that buskers tone, which kind of works for this.

I send this off by the end of play and get a call a little later with some very specific changes. They need this by the morning. So it’s a late night. In bed by 2:30.