Skeyton Practice

Tricky run over in rain and traffic in Norwich but I still made it for 5pm to find Dave mostly set up. I had just set up and ran thru “Can’t Get Enough” with Dave when Nige arrived so we were ready to start by 6:15 ish. Nigel is putting a bit of weight on – he says its down to sweets replacing cigarettes. Warmed up with “Travel lodge California” which was pretty much error free. Then we looked into the Hollies medley going over harmonies in “Bus Stop” before playing the whole medley thru with just a few glitches (mainly on my part). Spent a bit of time trying to get the feel of the “Spencer Davis” sequence right – We were a lot happier after! Moved on to a review of the “Bay City” piece with Dave taking over vocal on “Shang-a-Lang” from Nigel (because he’s burned out with going it too often over the years). At this point we stared doing a bit of construction with “Can’t Get Enough”. We must have all done our homework ‘cos we just played it through first time. Tinkered around a bit - Adrian and Dave to do the chorus in harmony at the end and extend it until Nige ad-libs “Listen!”. Nige does a good job of the vocal which he also enjoys doing. It worked really well with all of us doing our parts professionally so straight in the show we said! Moved on to progress a few plays of “Shine” when Dave’s mate Ray arrived to hear the Bose gear. He sat in on the drums as we played a hesitant, untogether “Johnny B Goode”. Tried out “Blue Bayou” with Dave going out front; Nige and I have a bit of homework to sort out the girly backings and Dave needs to create the Orbision look, but otherwise it shouldn’t take long to get this into the show. Finished of the construction session by putting a bit of time into the Queen medley. This started to work well with good dynamics emerging and we sorted out the links between songs – we should finish this off at the next session! Finished with a review of “How Long”. It had stopped raining and I had a good run home getting in just before midnight.