…was had by all – even me (and I don’t normally like those kind of things).
I’m talking about the release party, of course. It was an exercise in the unknown and I think that’s what made it fun. I don’t believe I’ve ever performed completely acoustically before – that is, without the aid of a microphone of any kind. Note to self: maybe I should do so more often. It turns out that if you have no monitors or sound to worry about, you’re left to concentrate on the emotional content. Who knew?
It was fun to hang out with the KOOKs who made it, and I concur with their comments that it felt like a small family gathering – intimate, relaxed and dare I say a little amusing at times.
The next day was D & W’s "step-up" celebration and the end of the school year. During the event every class gets up on stage to sing a song with their own adapted lyrics (usually with snide but loving comments about their teachers), and then when finished they move into the seats vacated by the grade above. Diva and Wilder became 3rd and 1st graders. I was of course verklempt.
In the near future I’ll get to some of the questions that have been asked, and my web team are hard at work on a widget for the Fans page that will let you submit questions directly in a way that makes it easy for me to answer them right here on my website. But for now I’m just going to share some upcoming event news, in chronological order:
- On June 26, I’ll be a guest speaker (no performance!) at the Creative Commons Salon at the Found Gallery in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles. I’m a keen supporter of Creative Commons; please come on out to hear more about it. I’ll have CDs for sale there and will be happy to sign them. Click here for more info.
- On July 23, I’m taping a guest musical appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. We don’t know yet whether it will air that same evening, but you can click here to apply now to be an audience member for the taping (must be age 17 or over).
- In November and December – and you KOOKs who live in Europe may be especially happy to hear this – Tears for Fears will be performing a series of dates with the German leg of Night of the Proms, from November 28 to December 21. Visit the Night of the Proms site for more information or click here to order tickets.
Until soon…
EZEZEZEZEZEZ
Papa. S.
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