And so, another week has flown by in my ever-hectic life! Mental Note: I must try and post more often!
Had a slight drama in the
Imogen Heap camp this week when Immi and her manager's visas didn't turn up in time for them to start the American tour. Unfortunately this meant Immi had to miss the first two shows in New York & Pittsburgh. It also meant I had to tell everyone and take some of the stick via email! Fortunately the majority of people have been very understanding.
On Friday last week I had my first experience of conference calling! It was quite a strange affair, in total we had 9 people on the call. Myself and Imogen's manager Mark in the UK and then another 7 people spread across different offices in New York. It was actually surprisingly simple and there wasn't much confusion, or people talking over each other, just the occasional long silence when everyone was waiting for someone to jump in and say something. We talked about a lot of stuff and came up with some good ideas, which was cool. I dread to think what that 1 hour call cost though! Went out for some drinks with Stat and Mike & Nicky on the evening, which was very pleasant and a nice way to finish the day off.
Over the weekend we (Stat, Dicko & Myself) finished series 4 of 24. This mad me happy and yet sad at the same time! The ending was sad, but I had a big smile on my face because I loved how the last half of that series had twisted and turned with so many unexpected things being thrown into the mix. Supposedly they ARE making series 5, so I have a year long wait for that to come out on DVD. I think I might start again at the beginning with series 1 and do all four series in the next year! Since 24 has been finished we've moved back to our Tesco online DVD rental list and begun watching 'Long Way Round' - the documentary about Euan McGregor's motorbike trip around the world.....it's REALLY interesting and I'd recommend renting it. We've only seen two episodes so far, but so much has happened and him and his friend Charley really are just nice, down to earth guys....who love bikes!
In the last week we have had two Scrat practices and last night, despite having some kind of weird migraine that was affecting my eyes I think we had the best one yet! This is a good job really as the gig is only a week away! Things are going well, we're going to be well rehearsed for the gig, we've got all the production stuff sorted apart from the banner, which should be sorted soon. I just hope some people turn up!
In the last 36 hours I've been battling with some email software to send out an email to Imogen's mailing list. It's taken forever to do, due to the influx of new subscribers in recent months, but it's done now....and it *tells* me the email went to everyone, so fingers crossed! I have also spent quite a bit of time on the phone offering technical support to Kelly while she reloads her computer. In fact, I'm sure if I were driven by making money I could make a packet doing technical support on the phone....I could set up my own premium number and everything. But I fear that I would LOSE MY MIND doing this kind of thing all day long!
It looks like
We're Not Afraid.com is going to be publishing a book with people's images that have been submitted to the site. It amazes me how much that site has grown, from one person's simple idea into such a big thing. First there was the site, which within days of the London bombings got millions of images of support submitted to it. Then there was all the TV & press coverage that
Alfie did. Recently there's been an exhibition in London, which looks like it's going to tour the world...and now there's talk of a book. It's great to see how it's grown from such a simple idea into something so big and so important/interesting to so many people. Very inspirational!
And so, until next time....
