Minxie Digs Heart of the
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Minxie Digs, Heart of the City, Sheffield.
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Morning coffee at Nero…
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Carrying the Wickedness to the Lyceum.
12.51 Lyceum.
A conversation in the green room with the show’s drummer on the life of the working player. We share experiences of the industry’s staggering stupidity; which, if related, innocent DGM visitors would probably believe to be exaggerated, if not entirely fictional. A good was of presenting this, to innocents & disbelievers, might be: remember bankers’ bonuses & sub-prime lending? It is now widely known & accepted that much of the music industry during the 1980s & 1990s was fuelled by cocaine. I am sure that cocaine was never used on Wall Street, in the City & in investment banks. If it had been, things would have gone badly wrong in the world of financial services.
Today’s first house is shortly underway.
19.56 A between-show walk & coffee for the dresser I…
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The second show is underway.
22.18 Bredonborough.
Leaving Sheffield c. 20.00. My life as a dresser is now at an end. Tomorrow, the Minx has one day off before returning to her final week of wickedness on Tuesday.
We drove out of Sheffield with a temperature of -2.5C & the M1 hit -4.5C. The coldest spot on the journey home was just outside Bredonborough: -6.5C. Not Finland, certainly, not even the Bowery in winter with a vicious wind-chill coming in from the Atlantic to tickle a naked body in their morning shower. But, a sufficiency of cold for me.
WillyFred is well-wrapped in his own white fur coat, a delightful leaping ball of energy.
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