driving to Dundee about 11.30pm

We’ve just played our first gig of the week at Mugdock Country Park. I didn’t even know there was a theatre in the visitor centre, but it was a terrific venue: just enough space for 60 people at the most in comfy seats, but still room for a Yamaha baby grand and a generous acoustic. Nice audience too. I borrowed a big stone that was helping hold down the cover on the well outside, to jam down the sustaining pedal in Dorrington Lads so that I could play piano and harmonium simultaneously.

cosy theatre inside

tea and sausage sandwiches outside (I was tuning and forgot to get mine)

Our gig in Dundee is at 11.30 tomorrow morning so we’re driving through there tonight, Alison and I taking turns at the wheel with Chris in the back.

I had just enough time this morning to get my head in gear for this mini-tour and prepare the material for our gig at the ABC next week. It’s rare to have a series of concerts that I haven’t really had to prepare for at all. We’ve played all the music before, Chris arrived via Amsterdam at 8.25 this morning, and we just got ourselves into trio mode and did it. I wonder how we’ll sound tomorrow morning when the tiredness kicks in a bit more …