Today's dress rehearsal

Today was the first of 2 dress rehearsals before the big showcase which should lead into an estimated 6 to 8 London gigs in June/July and it went great! We had the rehearsal room for the band for 3 hours in total but there was a lot of traffic on the M25 which meant the stylist makeup artist and I were 1 hour late, resulting in being very very rushed. Benny's outfit was pretty much fine, mine was fine, Nick's jacket needs to be dyed darker and we need to re-paper it with a newspaper kind of fabric instead of the script one currently on it, Swanny's outfit wasn't right for him so we have to completely re-do that for next week, and Rox's also needs some tweaks. We also need to get all new flowers to cover the floor and the mic stands (we were borrowing some today and now we have to get our own), white fairy lights for the drum kit, a new drum skin and we also need to make a huge pair of sphinx wings for me. In other words, there is a lot of work to do for next week's 2nd and final dress-rehearsal! But I am writing this post now feeling really great and happy and excited because today, although everything was far from perfect, I really saw the 'product' coming together ready to be put out there, marketed and sold, and by next week we are going to have that product ready! Everything I could see in my head with the message, the visuals, the songs, it had finally started to take shape and all come together! It's a great feeling!!!! There were no problems, just tweaks and polishing out the rough edges. Can't wait!!! We managed to record a very small amount of video footage but I don't have the camera and won't be able to get it until next week. Sadly no pictures.. we were just too rushed and hectic to focus on those things today due to being so late. We literally only had time to run the set once and make notes on performance, and then run 2 more songs which we filmed. All in all: Great day!! Bring on the final rehearsal next week!!!!

Will leave you with an image of the sphinx wings we are cloning for me to wear on stage: