After my successful performance at CURAD, I was approached by another art gallery who were going to be putting on an open event and they asked if I’d be able to perform for them. Despite the work deadlines I had at the time, I figured that I’d just go for it and sacrifice a Sunday dinner with the in laws to catch up instead. The communication was good leading up to the event and the folks at Pallet seemed enthusiastic about my music - they’d checked out my spotify (another good reason for turning to the dark side is spotify easier to access that band camp for the general person???) And they were eager for me to perform for them. I was chuffed, I didn’t know what to expect, but I imagined it would be a similar event to CURAD. It wasn’t. The event was brilliant and everyone was lovely, the hosts were fantastic and the event went really well as far as I'm aware! But from a musician point of view, they may as well have had a mp3 player running. Maybe I just got my hopes up after the high of the CURAD show, but it was a much bigger space and most people were passively listening. There were 3 people who actively watched my performance and there were times where I asked them for requests and stuff which was nice, they even came up to me after my slot and said they really enjoyed it - thats always a really nice feeling. Because of the relationship between myself and the audience was … not really a thing, I didn’t tell any stories but it felt good to open my back catalogue of songs I think I can remember how to play. I threw in some golden oldies from Mumford & Sons, Damien Rice and Tracy Chapman. It was a little demoralising to be completely frank, I think my expectations got the better of me and I overestimated what it would be like. Next time I’ll try to just estimate and not go over. Overall it was quite humbling and an opportunity to practice some old songs.
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