Collected the unsold work from Art Fair Cheshire today. I had two sales in a fair that was well attended and which many artists seemed to sell something, all good.
Have spent most of the day on music admin; updating Spotify details, listing things for Marius Fate, and preparing for tomorrow's show. I will sing and play the piano, with no more accompaniment, for Life Beyond Mars. I had thought of singing and playing over a backing track, but being tied to the rigid timing of the backing makes everything more difficult, and less expressive too. It also makes for a mixed show.
I'll perform Life Beyond Mars, Masculinity Two, Two Kinds of Animals, Love in a Hopeless World, Notes From Space and end with the climax that is Looking For a Lover. All songs will have a mix of vocals and keyboard work, including all of the vocoder parts for Two Kinds of Animals.
Ten poems are lined up for the Fall in Green performance at 2pm, which is a less taxing job for me. The hard part of the day, as always, is the logistics; the driving, lugging, costumes, setting up and taking down. The performance part is really a minuscule component of all of this.
