Yesterday afternoon I warmed up my washboard a bit before heading to Lausanne with Dave to meet Bill at the swiss public radio building. Dave who was carrying two guitars almost got stuck in the rotating doors so it was with high spirits that we entered the place, received our passes and were invited to proceed. We then dropped off our stuff in the recording studio, a fairly big auditorium actually, where I panicked a bit after noticing the lack of cymbals on the drum set, Bill had assured me that I didn’t need to bring anything… However they had a few old one piled up in a corner from which I was able to find two suitable for the hi-hat and randomly chose another to crash on; it ended up being more of a gong like thing which was fun too.
We then were asked to write about ourselves on a blank sheet of paper.
20 or so minutes later it was soundcheck time, we were able to go through a few songs and jam a bit which is always fun. Waiting an hour was next, as usual; waiting seems to be what musicians do the most.