Oh Dear x 2

Oh Dear x 1: My new band has it's third gig (with me...they've been going quite a while without me...). Our celllist/percussionist/singer can't make it so we're playing it as a five-piece (with synths, multiple singers, guitar, bass, percussion....and two drummers.). We're playing at the Water Rats. We're on at 7.30pm. Our soundcheck finishes at 7.20pm. At 7.25pm the promoters are hustling us back on stage. But where is our second drummer and our singer? Gone walkies....It's up to us...play without them or don't play. So we think...hmmmm...we'll start with a kinda droney/improv style song and they'll come running up and join in! So off we go...but they are still missing and not in action anywhere to be heard. At least half of the songs are started by the other drummer so I'm a bit confuddle-ated but I do my best looking at the ceiling. As we carry our equipment off stage the drummer and singer return. What happened to you? we ask. We didn't think 7.30 MEANT 7.30 they say. um. But it was still quite fun. band is here. Myspace.com/nowtheband
Oh Dear x 2: I got made redundant. Well - my place of work PROPOSED I got made redundant. But I have a feeling this is going to amount to the same thing. Oh dear. Look out for me outside Starbucks with a rat chewed polystyrene cup asking for change any day now...Or maybe as the next Mayor of London. One or the other.