This Blog originated because everyone else wanted me to visit theirs, so why should they have all the fun? Indeed, if this trend continues, everyone will have their own blog, and will rant in it about how noone visits it, and noone will read anyone else's blog because they are too busy feeling self-important in their own. Anyway, here I am, ranting away, wondering will anyone else even bother to visit? Why should they? They're too busy working on their own blog. Well, good luck to them...
Well, you're all a bunch of wusses! Show you a guaranteed winner of a business idea, combined with highly worthwhile research, creation of a new artform, 75% cash up front, and a cure for can't-write-music-itus, and what do you do? Run for the hills, that's what. Well, bleeeuuuuugggghhhhhaaarrrgggh to you too. I'll do the whole thing myself "said the little red hen" (look it up if you want, it's a good reference).
Free concerts, great, you cry! I'd never miss one of those... Well, I was performing in a free concert last Sunday in Killaloe, some very nice music, a full wind octet, NO string instruments (no strings attached, if you like...), and an audience of about 30 people. I think you are legally obliged to perform if the audience outnumbers the ensemble by 2 to 1, but we were going to play anyway! It's what we like doing, so an audience is a benefit, not a necessity, and helps focus the mind. Venue was beautiful, St Flannans in Killaloe, I highly recommend it as a venue, as it has a pleasant resonance, particularly suited to small ensembles and voice, I would say. Well, what did we perform? Mozart-Serenade in C minor (wind octet), Gounod-Petite Symphonie (flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 french horns, nice!). Maybe we'll get more advertising in future, by booking earlier, or by staging some outrageous stunt during the Oscar ceremony next year. Something to do with bassoons, leather trousers, and scantily-clad girls should do it, I reckon. But then again, we don't just want germans at the concert, so a mention of free Guinness as well? Oh, it's hard to know what would work best. Any suggestions?
Well, feck it anyway, as Fr. Ted would say. Strange how the word Funding sounds so perverse and dirty, or is it? It is indeed a black art, and can consume many dimensions, particularly time, and space on hard drives. "Do we need Funding?" "I like Funding exercises". Eeugh!
