It is Here!
Amazingly, incredibly, it is here, at last! After all the secrets, the anticipation and the general suspence, my single is being released RIGHT NOW! Available exclusively through Bandcamp, you can now experience the happy ukulele feeling, the strangeness and the proper fucked-upedness of “My Friends Are More Fucked Up than Me”!
You can stream and listen to it as much as you like from your browser, or you can download one track at a time for free, or you can name your price and buy the whole single, in which case you get a thank you video from me as well! If you’re up for it, you can even order a special edition CD from me, which I shall lovingly burn, decorate and sign, and then saunter off to the post office with to ship off to anywhere in the world.
If you’re the giving kind and you’d like to write a review on your own blog to help promote me, I’ll give YOU a code to download the single for free. And if you share the link on Twitter and Facebook and the like, you’ll have my heartfelt gratitude. I need your help to sell this thing!
And look! I made a t-shirt, too! Because everyoneknows their friends are more fucked up thanthey are, so why not show it off?
I think you should buy this shirt. It comes it lots of different colours and it would look awesome on you.
Now, all that remains is to thank everyone who’s been helpful, all the people who have supported me, and especially my boyfriend, who stands by me even though I’m pretty fucked up, and all my fucked up friends, without whom this song would not have been written.
Thank you all!
Aftermath
It is now nearly two in the afternoon on a Tuesday. I would have liked to blog about my gig the moment I got home last night, but I was too tired and full of wine and whisky.
Last night was a complete success! There were even a good four people in the audience I didn’t know from before, and I just about made money. I needed 24 paying customers in order to cover the fee for the sound guy, and I got 30. So, yay! Paid gig! I made enough money for… Half a night out? A decent dinner at a restaurant? Parking? In any case, at least I didn’t lose money, and that’s definitely something.
Given that I didn’t get to promote the thing all that well, what with being ill and all that, I’m certainly not disappointed. My audience seemed to enjoy the show (even if most of them were my friends), and while I played quite a few wrong notes (I’m not used to playing instruments in front of people; this is something I’ll have to work on) there were no catastrophic fuck-ups.
Pic, courtesy of my brother:
Glenruben was there with his camera, so better pics are to come, but he hasn’t uploaded them to the web yet.
I think, in the end, I played 19 songs. Some were covers, but most of them were my own. Robot Fuck went down well, as usual, and my friends have renamed At Least My Friends are More Fucked Up than Me, to The Rooster Song. Don’t ask. You had to be there.
I don’t really know what else to add… I had fun, mu audience had fun, it was generally fun.
Many, many thanks to Morten, for being supportive and driving my piano back and forth, and not drinking, to Sebastian for being my door man and pushing fliers on everyone when they were leaving, to Glenruben for taking photos (both at the gig and for the promo material), to Trond the sound guy who made sure I could hear myself, and of course to everyone who showed up to support me. You guys rock! <3
The next gig will be even more amazing!
