It's Friday Afternoon, It Must Be A BeHeld Rehearsal.

BeHeld's Friday afternoon rehearsals are quite civilised affairs.
Much tea & coffee are consumed, the great works of art are discussed, the role of computer technology in music is discussed, the roots of european musical tradition are discussed, and so on and so on.
When Mr. Wills and I talk about computers, Mystic Rog glazes over.
When Mystic Rog and I talk about art, Mr. Wills glazes over.
When Mystic Rog and Mr. Wills talk about guitars, I glaze over.
Girl On Wire tends to spend the time staring through the window at the customers sat outside the Lobster Pot cafe trying to work out if any of them are eating chips.
Every now and then we get round to playing a few tunes.

There's a lot of work to do today.
We've got 3 gigs coming up to promote the Ep.
The 3 songs on the Ep were recorded sometime ago, we're already halfway though recording the next Ep, which means we haven't played them for a while now and we're sort of 'rusty'.

For our first outing, an informal 'open-mic' type venue, we'll be performing to what will be a broadly sympathetic audience familiar with the songs on the Ep so we can role a few of our new songs out.
The second gig stands a chance of being a bit of a challenge.
It's a long way from our base, in front of people who've never seen us before and we have to be amplified.
The amplification will be out of our hands which always fills me with lumps of fear.
We're going to open with Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me To the End of Love" then play the songs from the Ep.
The third gig is a venue we've played before, they've already heard the songs from the Ep so we'll probably only use one of the Ep songs and the rest will be chosen from the new recordings.

That's that sort out then.

During rehearsal we often take time to try one another's instruments.
Today Mystic Rog had a go with Mr. Wills' violin:

I think we'll give that one a miss.

There is one little problem-ette.
We've sold most of the Ep's already.