I'm having a good time up here in the North East.
Playing as part of the show band is getting easier and more rewarding as I slowly learn the music well enough to perform it. It annoys me that I am so slow to properly learn things of any complexity. I need to be alone with the music for each song for a while, and listen to it in my head, as well as jotting down a few cryptic reminders for myself.
Once I have gone through this process, I am fine. The upshot of this necessity is that when coming to something completely fresh, I appear almost useless - and that is pretty accurate. Hopefully, before tonight's first proper performance I will have been through the entire thing sufficiently carefully to play in a useful and reasonably convincing way.
I'll let you know.
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