{"id":496,"date":"2009-10-25T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-10-02T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:57:12","slug":"may-you-live-in-interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/25\/may-you-live-in-interesting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"May you live in interesting times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I played two gigs this weekend: at Charlotte St Blues on Friday with Elephant Shelf in front of quite a big crowd and at the Garibaldi in St Alban’s as half of the Delta Ladies.\u00c2\u00a0 Both gigs went really well but could not be more different though both audiences were very enthusiastic. \u00a0I often think I only really come alive when I am playing and that seems be the case at present. \u00a0Its going to be quite busy until the start of November as I have another three gigs this week and if I could keep going at this rate most of my problems would be solved.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week I did my Cabaret turn at the Cellar Door with Greta Garbitch (AKA Menno) which we had a really good crowd attending too. Then as a complete contrast I met up with Glenn Patrick who plays Blues and is from the States and we played a few acoustic numbers \u00a0round at Vicky Martins place with Terry our drummer also in attendance. Glen turns out to be a very nice guy with a lot of interesting music anecdotes \u00a0as well as a really good musician.the reason that we all met up was Vicky was doing an interview for Blues Matters magazine.<\/p>\n

Glenn has a website here \u00a0>> \u00a0http:\/\/www.glennpatrik.com\/ <\/a>well worth a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      I played two gigs this weekend: at Charlotte St Blues on Friday with Elephant Shelf in front of quite a big crowd and at the Garibaldi in St Alban’s as half of the Delta Ladies.\u00c2\u00a0 Both gigs went really well but could not be … Continue reading May you live in interesting times<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-elephant-shelf","category-music","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-80","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1185,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/11\/carry-on-and-keep-calm\/","url_meta":{"origin":496,"position":0},"title":"Carry on and keep calm","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I have just about got over Christmas. 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