another acquaintance

Friday 15th June 2007

10:56 a.m. BST The last couple of nights have been a bit more of a challenge. Wednesday night I played mostly standards during my instrumental set which seemed to go down well. Later on the bar was fairly busy but the audience were slow to acclimatise. Last night was again quite slow-going at first, but generally more positive, with a few attentive groups and couples throughout. I played a couple of new songs, including Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder) and You Do Something To Me (Paul Weller).

One of the managers from Live Business, Dave Taylor, was on-board last night. Was good to meet him finally, and he spent some time in the piano bar last night and gave me some positive feedback later, which was encouraging.