and exhale…
i am sitting in my dressing gown with laptop on lap. it is four in the afternoon on a tuesday. how lovely to be able to just veg out for a day. well, to work at home, without needing to bathe, dress or speak to a soul. it ain’t pretty, but it sure is good.
it’s just been non-stop!
i have a previous post, that never made it out of my drafts, in fact was never completed. it’s kind of long, but i’ll pop it on the end of this one, just so you can catch up… if you wish.
friday saw myself and my new band step on stage at sydney’s the factory and present ‘grounded bird’, in all of it’s live glory, for the very first time.
i have been so anxious. i have been so overwhelmed. i have been so excited. i have been all emotions over the coming of this debut event. i am now satisfied and glowing from what turned out to be a fantastic show.
my new band played like demons. i was so proud of them. they worked so hard to get to this point and even at soundcheck, it still felt tentative.
at 10:30pm, the lights went up and they picked up their instruments and let rip.
let me introduce them:
shannon vanderwert
pat bourke
dan luscombe
lilith lane
what a beautiful bunch of people! applause please.
the reason there are no pictures of me, is because i was the photographer. anyone that has reviews or photos that they’d like to share, would be more than welcome.
if anyone writes in, you’ll probably be hearing from them that, before closing with cold heart killer, we opened our encore with bizarre love triangle. i am so happy to know you all still love that one! especially seeing as, in true angie fashion, i forgot the lyrics and needed some pretty hefty prompting.
dan and i also pulled ‘simple’ out of the archives, to a rousing response. i am beginning to wonder why i didn’t record it for this album! oops. i enjoyed playing it so much (and so did you, judging by your response and knowledge of the lyrics). at the time of recording, i believed it didn’t quite fit on the album. ho hum, next time.
highlights for me, other than that, would have to be the band’s harmonies on many of the songs. one in particular is ‘first time’. lil and i sing the high la la line you hear on the album and the boys came up with another line all together. when sung at the same time, it is very beach boys-esque. they melt me.
can you tell i am happy? i am so relieved to have this first one under our belt and know the quantity of things. it is as i had hoped and then some. i even get to rock.
thank you for all that came to sydney. sorry i didn’t get to talk to more of you, but to those i did, it was lovely to see you all again!
ang x
wed. sept. 19, 2007
I’M BUSY!!!!!!!!!
yes, folks. i am finally complaining about having too much to do, as opposed to of the load of complaining i was doing before about being idle. contrary to my moaning, i am enjoying myself very much and i am enjoying moaning about it even more, just in case people did not pick up on the fact that i have an admirably busy schedule that may possibly be considered moan-worthy.
my press itinerary is chockers!
i cannot put into words how chuffed i was over the piece in the sunday age newspaper, but i will attempt to in an indulgently moany tone: ‘i can’t walk out of my house without make-up and high heels, lest i be sighted and not come up to scratch!’
but, seriously, i was so pleased with how well the journalist, (john bailey) respectfully related the scads of personal information i bestowed upon him and his dictaphone in good faith. what a great start out of the gates.
to add to the surreality of having my giant head (yes, my ego barely fits in there right now) appear on the front cover of the sunday supplement, i was riding on the tram on my way to therapy last week, sitting next to a man reading the street press paper. smack dab in the middle of the page he was reading, was a photo, accompanied by an article, of none other than the person next to him… moi! instead of feeling puffed up, i felt like crawling inside my own jacket and calling for my mother. it is such an exposing feeling. i had forgotten about, or perhaps didn’t expect to revisit, this part of the media trail. but, i’m having a good laugh, i can tell you that much.
as if all that weren’t enough, yesterday i appeared as a guest on the abc’s 774am radio conversation hour, alongside SUZI QUATTRO. now, i expected this much, as i had been informed of her attendance in a guest capacity when i confirmed my own. what i hadn’t expected, as i listened and hung on every word of this inspiring 57 year old icon’s views on her life and life itself, was that this five star guest would in turn be interviewing me!
to say the least, it rattled my cage… and made for some very sweaty palms.
she is a force to be reckoned with.
and as i mentioned before, i now do not leave the house without heels, which may explain the considerable height difference between us. she wore no make-up. she looks great!. what a champ.
the cliche of a ‘dog and pony’ show is not lost on me. besides the old, ‘just act naturally’, which does not come ‘naturally’ to me at all, especially when in front of a camera. i have been asked to climb inside a torso sized booth in a wall, for the upcoming article that appears in the melbourne magazine supplement for the age newspaper this month and to stand ‘casually’ alongside my favourite things, for the good weekend’s section of the same name (out this weekend, with…none other than, the age newspaper). i am learing to be new, fresh and rehearsedly ‘spontaneous’, answering the same questions for the upteenth time for various newspapers across australia.
oh, how i love to moan about all of this! can you tell i am secretly enjoying every second and all of the new, but hauntingly familiar absurdities it has re-introduced into my life? and just when i thought i could be happy with perfecting a dish or two from a limited selection of less than ten or more recipes for my culinarily adventurous friends, or conquering my fear of creepy crawlies whilst gardening amongst the kangaroo paws, from here until i pass away quietly whilst pruning the roses in the midday sun.
nowadays, i harken back to the simpler days of less than two months ago, for a touch of sanity. the domestic skills i honed, whilst waiting for the wheels to begin turning on my slow moving album campaign, have become an invaluable tool for bringing me back to what is most important and remembering the reasons i am doing this. i believe balance has been acheived… for the present time, at least.