Imogen on Letterman.
Immi was due to perform on the world famous 'Late Show with David Letterman' on Tuesday this week, but after spending all day rehearsing/sound checking at Letterman and returning in the evening for the show, 2 minutes before she was due to go on the message came through to the dressing room that the show (which is broadcast live) had over-run and they wouldn't have time for her performance! She was understandably gutted and much stressing ensued from her manager, tour manager and record company!
Fortunatley the good people at CBS/Letterman decided that they'd have time to fit her into the show the next day - so offered her the slot on Wednesday, as well as a Limo for the rest of Tuesday night as an apology! The only problem with this was that she was due to play the opening show of her US Tour that night (also in New York) and there was no way they could pack down all the gear and get it across town to Letterman in time for her to perform on the show after her gig. Plus she would have had to set up and rehearse for Letterman during the afternoon. It just wasn't possible to do both with the gear she had. So in an extremely generous gesture Letterman offered to buy her a complete duplicate set of equipment so she could have one set in place at the TV studios all day and one set to do the gig with! Immi uses some pretty specialist/expensive gear so this was not a case of spending a few hundred quid, more like several thousand pounds I would have thought! So late that night and all the next morning Immi and her tour manager Kumar scoured music shops all over NYC finding all the gear she'd need to create a duplicate live set up.
In the end all turned out well. Despite a few technical glitches at the NY gig (she wisely decided to use the new set up there instead of live on national TV!) the gig was a success (sold out too!) and she went on to give a bloody brilliant performance on Letterman which everyone who has seen it seems to agree was superb! I'm so proud of her!
You can watch her performance here!