Show’s over
This post is being written after my band’s first ever show, so I thought I’d let you all know how it went. I’ll say that it was quite stressful leading up to the actual performance, but as we got
closer to the show, I somehow got less nervous. So basically it was a
pretty big success I think. I felt really comfortable up there (after the first song or two) and found it really energizing. I remembered all my words, which
was the biggest thing I was worried about. Plus a lot of people came
that we knew, and also people we didn’t know, which was really nice. I
would say that there were about 50 people came all together.
But I got paid a lot of really nice compliments by people- many of whom I didn’t know. And it meant that much more because people knew
they had to speak in English to me, and were clearly nervous about it,
so it was really nice that they said something at all. I even got the audience speaking English when I told them that they’d have to translate Zugabe (encore) into English- they went with ‘ONE MORE SONG’! The English thing is kind of working in my favour.
So now Andreas is working hard to book some more shows for us, which is a bit easier now that we’ve made some contacts through the first show. It’s a really great thing to do on the side, and make a little bit of money (especiallly considering how little I can work now with my German course).
Anyway, I made $50, and had a good time, so I’m happy.
Happy Austrian Independance Day (26 October)!!
