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Hotel Acceptable, Seville.
Today is my Sister’s birthday. She is in New Zealand, and called me on the ‘bus while we were travelling to Seville from Granada-ish.
Rising in Grenada-ish at 07.45…
Lobby call 08.50 & onto the ‘bus...
Service stop along the way I...
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… surrounded by construction sites I…
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It seems Spain is a series of construction sites I…
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From the motorway, a church tower becomes visible, in the centre of an old town. Then, around it, perhaps 2-3 miles of new-build & newer-build continuing to spread into the surrounding former-countryside.
But Biff is a happy boy…
Into the outskirts of Seville I…
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… with more construction sites.
The hotel…
The Old Town is over the river I…
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… “within walking distance”…
The promised hotel wifi doesn’t quite extend to all of the rooms. Actually, almost none of ours. So, I’m in the bar area, e-flurrying.
14.10 Hooray! The smokers in the bar have gone! The barmaid was enjoying loud cartoons on the bar tv, which I have asked her to turn down. Conventionally, hotel services are in place to support the preferences of hotel staff. Where this negatively intrudes upon my hotel-experiencing, I act on the assumption that the hotel is there to support the preferences of its paying guests.
Lobby call 16.40.
00.12 Onto the bus…
… and off to the gig I…
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VI… Teatro Central
Dressing Room of the Rock God…
Catering I…
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The auditorium I…
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Sound check I…
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Good performance to an audience including, reportedly, 150 music students. The LCG were particularly good & Hernan was hot.
A flash at the end.
Report on yesterday: the performance was part of a contemporary music series, so probably too rocky for some of the older audients. Hernan feels that Calliope, at the merchandising stand, made a connection to the audience that may have eluded us during the performance itself.
Returning to the hotel…
… some of the Team had difficulty directing the elevator to the desired floor…
"With craft the musician can copy something old.
With discipline the musician may copy something new."
