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Last Updated: 11/30/2009

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Status: Single
City: Cambridge
Country: UK
Signup Date: 4/23/2008
Sunday, June 21, 2009 

Current mood:  exhausted
Whoa what a day...

It’s only just sinking in what happened yesterday.

We were scheduled to play on stage at the festival and I was so nervous that I had very little sleep on Friday night and I was very nearly physically sick on Saturday morning, but a walk in the park with Maggie sorted that out.
 
The festival was awesome in so many respects, we had access all area passes, played probably the best we have ever played, fear certainly concentrates the mind, supported some fantastic acts, and became world record holders along with 800 plus other uke nuts.
 
I thought our set went down pretty well, not that we were technically great, but we had the advantage of being mob handed which always helps at an open air event where the sound gets lost in the ether. Plus we played some very well known songs that we hope were all crowd pleasers, and I got to say “Hello London” which has always been a dream of mine and I believe the audience picked up on the irony.
 
Then the record attempt was absolutely magical, 851 people playing and singing Sloop John B giving it everything… the walls of the square were vibrating!!!
 
Then, could things get even better? Yep they could! Using our access passes we got right on stage for the Jona Lewie set and he was awesome, that guy has written some great songs, he did Seaside Shuffle, Stop the Cavalry, In the Kitchen at Parties, we added some hand claps [well you have to].
 
All in all a great day I shall never forget.
 
Now you’ve read all the above go straight to Jona’s myspace page [see our top friends box] and listen to the tracks on there… I would particularly recommend She go ya ya ya which is my favourite song right now.
 
 
Neil
7:19 PM
 
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