Rattlebrained

In my first year at SFAI way back when I had a creative writing class with a great teacher whose name I’ll insert once I find it. He would read short stories, have the class discuss them and would impart wisdom, passion and humor and remains one of my most memorable teachers. The awkwardness of forgetting his name but remembering his voice…

One of these stories was Shirley Jackson's: The Lottery and one of the points was how the author actually tells you the story’s ending in the second paragraph but you don’t actually realize it until the ending… And perhaps that you can only read it once with the innocence of not knowing that end…

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Thanks to Christophe Losberger we have some great pictures from last night’s Crawfish Blues Band concert!

Two concerts to announce:

On October 1st we play at the Hotel-Restaurant Mont-Vully (Route du Mont 50, 1789 Lugnorre) for the third time. The concert starts at more or less 19h30 and their food so far has been quite nice. Two reasons to come!

Then on November 7th you can find us at the 2nd Vully Blues Festival that takes place in Praz, Fribourg. The fesitval starts at 19h00 pm, we play three 1 hour sets at 19h45 – 21h00 & 23h00

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So what about “Back To Borneo”?

After building our little theremines, we set up in an large industrial space across the street from the main festival area. This was because originally our concert was supposed to take place outside but the weather was just too chilly and windy for that.

We (Bill, Jacques and I) quickly went through the program to clear any lingering hitches…

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Saturday we didn’t really learn how to build a theremine or at least while I was in the workshop nobody explained how it worked. In fact they were swamped and had far more folks than planned so it’s understandable and the workshop was already underway when we got there so perhaps something was said at the beginning.

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Once again I’ll be joining Bill Holden next Saturday. He was asked to participate in tskz, a small festival for “sonic creations + art & science multimedia” organized by tskz.

One of the reasons I have not had time to blog lately is that I was helping him out in building the necessary home made musical instruments. In this case a few skid’fonias…

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Thursday’s concert was a mixed bag and a bit frustrating, but that’s nothing new. Basically the crowd had a few speeches to listen to before making there way into the concert hall, the plan was that we start playing once the speeches ended… Whoever among the organizers thought that the speeches would only take 1/2 an hour was pretty naif, especially in this area where folks take their speeches very seriously.

We were ready and all hypered up on scheduled at 18h30. At 18h45 it became clear that the speeches would last another 45min at least. Not wanting to stay in the over hot and stuffy theater, this week’s heatwave had made its way inside so off we went to have a beer…

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