Mon 27th – A Quiet One All Round

(Lanterns in a tent out by the Arabian Gulf.)

Today was as the title says. It was good to have had a pretty restful and uneventful day and to then have a decent nights sleep. People just wondered past for most of the day and schlepped from group to group. The realisation that Opening is now only a few days away has begun to sink in.

Rehearsals was all about the pre show entertainment. Pretty naff as I guess you want to have a few aces up your sleeve. The 2 MC’s are just the same as any other MC you’ve ever seen & heard – sleazy, full of smiles and oversized guestures and just won’t shut up – despite going over & over time. And this was all without an audience!

There’s a section where the Orry’s come out and play. It’s quite comical as each Orry is being chased by bigger & bigger groups of kids playing sport of one sort or another. It’s made even more comical by the music that accompanies each section. Everything from the William Tell Overture to snippets of ‘Spectacular’ from Moulin Rouge to the circus/carnival music – it’s also the music that I associate with old men spinning dinner plates on sticks of dowl and for those who’ve worked with me in the past – it’s my Cougar spinning music! It’s quite funny but maybe that’s because it was something that we haven’t seen over the last few weeks and was just nice to see new stuff!

Myslf & Kev look like we’ll have nothing to do with the pre game entertainment! It kind of sucks – we’ve got stuff to do during the show but there are some who are far busier. I love the position that we’re in but at the same time would like to be a little busier. Kev’s the same. Wouldn’t change it for the world though – maybe with the 2 kids on the LED screen though!